I always thought it would be a spectacular expulsion of thick gasses.

It was more like a weak orgasm of liquid. I'm pretty disappointed.

It was only for a split second. Now the gauge reads 90% instead of 100...

Entertaining at least...

 

thread needs pics

at least it wasnt under emergency circumstances

 

You sure that was the fire system that was discharged?

 

no pics to be taken really... it was a small amount of whiteish clear liquid.. enough came out to fill all three lines and all three nozzles spit... it just wasnt very notoewrhty. it didnt really have much of a smell, and it wasnt really sticky... just bland. maybe my car needs more protein?

basically, it didnt seem that for the .75 seconds or so that it was active it was going to smother any flames...

has anyone ever discharged one? mine is a 10lb firefighters unit filled with spa lite

 

In college, my friend's fire extinguisher went off in his '98 Ford Windstar right as we were turning onto a busy street. It filled the entire mini van with a thick, acrid, white cloud. We couldn't see ****. lol

 

I knew I'd see a thread like this one of these days.

 

Hmmmm.

This has been a concern for me for a while. I also have the fyer fighter system in my car too.(not for long) im changing it out for another type unit all together. Refilling is too costly.
Back in the day when I was a Flight Engineer on a UH-60 Blackhawk we used to use .020 Copper safety wire on devices that needed something to keep from being accidentally bumped or pulled inadvertently. It also had to not require a lot of break away strength, hence using copper wire.

I wonder if the HC inspectors would allow the use of .020 copper wire on the pull handles?
Inspectors please feel free to chime in.

 

I keep a bread twist tie on mine to keep the pin from falling out, but it does not keep me from pulling the pin if I ever need to use the extinguisher.