jmcquown wrote:
>
> "James Silverton" > wrote in message
> ...
> > ChattyCathy wrote on Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:53:47 +0200:
> >
> >> http://www.recfoodcooking.com
> >
> >> Thanks go to Andy for this one.
> >> --
> >> Cheers
> >> Chatty Cathy
> >
> > I guess my "yes" answer to having one is a little inexact. The
> > extinguisher is on the garage wall just near the door that leads to the
> > kitchen. Can you test-fire extinguishers? I know how to use mine but I've
> > lost the instructions about refilling etc. Mine has a pressure guage that
> > currently indicates an allegedly adequate charge.
> >
> > --
> >
> > James Silverton
> > Potomac, Maryland
> >
> > Email, with obvious alterations: not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not
>
> I just make sure the gauge reads fully pressurized. (Actually back home the
> apartment manager sends someone around to check it the same time they change
> out the smoke alarm batteries. Mom didn't have one anywhere near her
> kitchen until I got here. Ditto the gauge thing. I've never (knock on
> wood) had to use either one.
>
> Jill

No, you can not test fire a fire extinguisher. If you test fire it,
besides the obvious loss of capacity, the valve will not fully seal and
the remaining pressure will leak down to zero in short order.

Large fire extinguishers in commercial service do get annual inspections
and after some number of years they are serviced and recharged. Home
sized fire extinguishers are disposable and if the gauge reads below the
green you dispose of them and buy new ones.

Pete C. wrote:

> No, you can not test fire a fire extinguisher. If you test fire it,
> besides the obvious loss of capacity, the valve will not fully seal and
> the remaining pressure will leak down to zero in short order.

Admittedly, when I read that particular question in the poll I somehow
misread it and clicked on the "yes" for test firing. Not such a bad
thing, because it made me curious about the extinguisher and I find that
there is indeed no way to test without pulling the pin. It's a fairly
good size model, very weighty, that stands ready to serve in our pantry
-- about five steps from the stove.

So, the poll results are skewed because I wasn't paying very good
attention. Not enough coffee I suppose.

--Lin

Lin wrote:
>
> Pete C. wrote:
>
> > No, you can not test fire a fire extinguisher. If you test fire it,
> > besides the obvious loss of capacity, the valve will not fully seal and
> > the remaining pressure will leak down to zero in short order.
>
> Admittedly, when I read that particular question in the poll I somehow
> misread it and clicked on the "yes" for test firing. Not such a bad
> thing, because it made me curious about the extinguisher and I find that
> there is indeed no way to test without pulling the pin. It's a fairly
> good size model, very weighty, that stands ready to serve in our pantry
> -- about five steps from the stove.
>
> So, the poll results are skewed because I wasn't paying very good
> attention. Not enough coffee I suppose.
>
> --Lin

My kitchen extinguisher is a relatively small one, but more than
adequate for a stove fire. It's mounted on the side of a cabinet about
4' away from the stove, and is adjacent to the door into the garage and
3' away from the door to the back yard, so it's in the proper exit path
location.

"Pete C." > wrote in
ster.com:


>
> My kitchen extinguisher is a relatively small one, but more than
> adequate for a stove fire.


Mine's a 1kg dry powder.

I also have a fire blanket in the kitchen.



--
Peter Lucas
Brisbane
Australia

I was having dinner with my boss and his wife and she said to me, "How

many potatoes would you like Peter?". I said "Ooh, I'll just have one

please". She said "It's OK, you don't have to be polite" "Alright" I

said "I'll just have one then, you stupid cow".

Lin > wrote in
est:

> Pete C. wrote:
>
>> No, you can not test fire a fire extinguisher. If you test fire it,
>> besides the obvious loss of capacity, the valve will not fully seal
and
>> the remaining pressure will leak down to zero in short order.
>
> Admittedly, when I read that particular question in the poll I somehow
> misread it and clicked on the "yes" for test firing.


Well, I 'test fired' my kitchen extinguisher about 2 weeks ago.

Got a frantic call that a nearby neighbours washing machine had caught
fire in their garage.

I grabbed the ext off the wall from the kitchen, and another from the
boot of my car, and raced over.

Electrical smoke and fumes, and dry powder dust in a confined space is
*not* a good thing to taste!!

If it had been left a few minutes more, the whole house would have gone
up. The Fire Brigade didn't arrive till about 6 minutes after I'd put it
out.

The *very* happy neighbours have since replaced both extinguishers for
me, and have bought some of their own :-)



> Not such a bad
> thing, because it made me curious about the extinguisher and I find
that
> there is indeed no way to test without pulling the pin. It's a fairly
> good size model, very weighty, that stands ready to serve in our
pantry
> -- about five steps from the stove.


Just check the pressure gauge periodically. If it starts to slip into
the red, pull the pin and practice with it...... *after* you have bought
a replacement and installed it :-)



--
Peter Lucas
Brisbane
Australia

I was having dinner with my boss and his wife and she said to me, "How

many potatoes would you like Peter?". I said "Ooh, I'll just have one

please". She said "It's OK, you don't have to be polite" "Alright" I

said "I'll just have one then, you stupid cow".

PeterL wrote:
>
> Lin > wrote in
> est:
>
> > Pete C. wrote:
> >
> >> No, you can not test fire a fire extinguisher. If you test fire it,
> >> besides the obvious loss of capacity, the valve will not fully seal
> and
> >> the remaining pressure will leak down to zero in short order.
> >
> > Admittedly, when I read that particular question in the poll I somehow
> > misread it and clicked on the "yes" for test firing.
>
> Well, I 'test fired' my kitchen extinguisher about 2 weeks ago.
>
> Got a frantic call that a nearby neighbours washing machine had caught
> fire in their garage.
>
> I grabbed the ext off the wall from the kitchen, and another from the
> boot of my car, and raced over.
>
> Electrical smoke and fumes, and dry powder dust in a confined space is
> *not* a good thing to taste!!
>
> If it had been left a few minutes more, the whole house would have gone
> up. The Fire Brigade didn't arrive till about 6 minutes after I'd put it
> out.
>
> The *very* happy neighbours have since replaced both extinguishers for
> me, and have bought some of their own :-)
>
> > Not such a bad
> > thing, because it made me curious about the extinguisher and I find
> that
> > there is indeed no way to test without pulling the pin. It's a fairly
> > good size model, very weighty, that stands ready to serve in our
> pantry
> > -- about five steps from the stove.
>
> Just check the pressure gauge periodically. If it starts to slip into
> the red, pull the pin and practice with it...... *after* you have bought
> a replacement and installed it :-)

Someone in another group recently posted a quote:

"When seconds count, 911 is only minutes away..."

Sage advice for many different situations.

"Pete C." > wrote in news:49386f7b$0$24642
:


>
> Someone in another group recently posted a quote:
>
> "When seconds count, 911 is only minutes away..."
>
> Sage advice for many different situations.
>


LOL!! Love it.

Going to have to use that (but with the 000 version) over here :-)


--
Peter Lucas
Brisbane
Australia

I was having dinner with my boss and his wife and she said to me, "How

many potatoes would you like Peter?". I said "Ooh, I'll just have one

please". She said "It's OK, you don't have to be polite" "Alright" I

said "I'll just have one then, you stupid cow".

In article .com>,
"Pete C." > wrote:

> > Just check the pressure gauge periodically. If it starts to slip into
> > the red, pull the pin and practice with it...... *after* you have bought
> > a replacement and installed it :-)
>
> Someone in another group recently posted a quote:
>
> "When seconds count, 911 is only minutes away..."
>
> Sage advice for many different situations.

That's a common one on the gun forums, but reads:

"When seconds count, the Police are only minutes away"...

Stated for the concept of home defense.
--
Peace! Om

"Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive." -- Dalai Lama

Omelet wrote on Fri, 05 Dec 2008 12:04:05 -0600:

> >> Just check the pressure gauge periodically. If it starts to
> >> slip into the red, pull the pin and practice with it......
> >> *after* you have bought a replacement and installed it :-)
>>
>> Someone in another group recently posted a quote:
>>
>> "When seconds count, 911 is only minutes away..."
>>
>> Sage advice for many different situations.

> That's a common one on the gun forums, but reads:

> "When seconds count, the Police are only minutes away"...

> Stated for the concept of home defense.

Sounds like one of those useful comments from pols. The most recent one
that I saw was "Before I came to power, we were on the edge of a great
chasm. But we are now about to take a big step forward."

--

James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

Email, with obvious alterations: not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not

In article >,
"James Silverton" > wrote:

> Omelet wrote on Fri, 05 Dec 2008 12:04:05 -0600:
>
> > >> Just check the pressure gauge periodically. If it starts to
> > >> slip into the red, pull the pin and practice with it......
> > >> *after* you have bought a replacement and installed it :-)
> >>
> >> Someone in another group recently posted a quote:
> >>
> >> "When seconds count, 911 is only minutes away..."
> >>
> >> Sage advice for many different situations.
>
> > That's a common one on the gun forums, but reads:
>
> > "When seconds count, the Police are only minutes away"...
>
> > Stated for the concept of home defense.
>
> Sounds like one of those useful comments from pols. The most recent one
> that I saw was "Before I came to power, we were on the edge of a great
> chasm. But we are now about to take a big step forward."

Ok, that was funny. ;-)
--
Peace! Om

"Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive." -- Dalai Lama

Omelet wrote:
>
> In article .com>,
> "Pete C." > wrote:
>
> > > Just check the pressure gauge periodically. If it starts to slip into
> > > the red, pull the pin and practice with it...... *after* you have bought
> > > a replacement and installed it :-)
> >
> > Someone in another group recently posted a quote:
> >
> > "When seconds count, 911 is only minutes away..."
> >
> > Sage advice for many different situations.
>
> That's a common one on the gun forums, but reads:
>
> "When seconds count, the Police are only minutes away"...
>
> Stated for the concept of home defense.

Yes, but since 911 is the consolidated emergency number, the same
applies for police, fire, medical, etc. Pretty much for any conceivable
emergency situation personal preparedness beats 911 every time.

In article .com>,
"Pete C." > wrote:

> Omelet wrote:
> >
> > In article .com>,
> > "Pete C." > wrote:
> >
> > > > Just check the pressure gauge periodically. If it starts to slip into
> > > > the red, pull the pin and practice with it...... *after* you have bought
> > > > a replacement and installed it :-)
> > >
> > > Someone in another group recently posted a quote:
> > >
> > > "When seconds count, 911 is only minutes away..."
> > >
> > > Sage advice for many different situations.
> >
> > That's a common one on the gun forums, but reads:
> >
> > "When seconds count, the Police are only minutes away"...
> >
> > Stated for the concept of home defense.
>
> Yes, but since 911 is the consolidated emergency number, the same
> applies for police, fire, medical, etc. Pretty much for any conceivable
> emergency situation personal preparedness beats 911 every time.

Absolutely.

People need to be as independent as possible.

Once when mom was choking, I called 911 and holding the phone to my ear,
did the heimlich maneuver. She was breathing again and I was able to
cancel the call...

I never did call 911 for my one and only grease fire. ;-)

They are expensive.
--
Peace! Om

"Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive." -- Dalai Lama

On Fri, 05 Dec 2008 12:04:05 -0600, Omelet wrote:

> In article .com>,
> "Pete C." > wrote:
>
>>> Just check the pressure gauge periodically. If it starts to slip into
>>> the red, pull the pin and practice with it...... *after* you have bought
>>> a replacement and installed it :-)
>>
>> Someone in another group recently posted a quote:
>>
>> "When seconds count, 911 is only minutes away..."
>>
>> Sage advice for many different situations.
>
> That's a common one on the gun forums, but reads:
>
> "When seconds count, the Police are only minutes away"...
>
> Stated for the concept of home defense.

the police are busy at another home where a family member is shot by a gun
kept for 'home defense.'

your pal,
blake

In article >,
blake murphy > wrote:

> On Fri, 05 Dec 2008 12:04:05 -0600, Omelet wrote:
>
> > In article .com>,
> > "Pete C." > wrote:
> >
> >>> Just check the pressure gauge periodically. If it starts to slip into
> >>> the red, pull the pin and practice with it...... *after* you have bought
> >>> a replacement and installed it :-)
> >>
> >> Someone in another group recently posted a quote:
> >>
> >> "When seconds count, 911 is only minutes away..."
> >>
> >> Sage advice for many different situations.
> >
> > That's a common one on the gun forums, but reads:
> >
> > "When seconds count, the Police are only minutes away"...
> >
> > Stated for the concept of home defense.
>
> the police are busy at another home where a family member is shot by a gun
> kept for 'home defense.'
>
> your pal,
> blake

Nah. Generally drunken college parties... At least around here. ;-)
--
Peace! Om

"Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive." -- Dalai Lama