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Fire Extinguishers.
If this hadn’t been as funny as it was and not as serious as it may have bean I would not be posting it here, but pressing a suitable black suit.
Now I am BAFE and FIA trained, so I know how to dismantle fire extinguishers, safely.
Now the gentleman down the road from me thinks he is an engineer, his workshop is clean and tidy and full of shiny tools, you know the type. In the past he has purchased some small garden fire pits made from old fire extinguishers.
Somehow he had “acquired” a 9kg powder fire extinguisher and set about dismantling it.
Please note the extinguisher was condemned, as scrap due to rust on the neck threaded parts. The head is made from brass and body steel.
Clamping it in the vice he set to, without warning the head flew off, whistling past his head at speed, neatly removing his glasses.
He stumbled backwards, from shock, tripping over the dog, who bolted. Then wet herself on the dining room carpet. He ended up on the floor.
Meanwhile the head, after neatly shattering the twin six foot tube light, fell to the ground. Landing neatly on his groin.
Gravity can not be switched off.
The simple and best advice here is:
If you do not know what you are doing stop.
This guy was very very lucky. It could of bean a lot lot worse.
If any one needs advice on Fire safety and fire extinguishers please feel free to drop me a line, I will try to help.
By the way, he will need a lot of super soft triple ply toilet paper. The powder in those extinguisher’s will give him the screaming s*1ts.
If this hadn’t been as funny as it was and not as serious as it may have bean I would not be posting it here, but pressing a suitable black suit.
Now I am BAFE and FIA trained, so I know how to dismantle fire extinguishers, safely.
Now the gentleman down the road from me thinks he is an engineer, his workshop is clean and tidy and full of shiny tools, you know the type. In the past he has purchased some small garden fire pits made from old fire extinguishers.
Somehow he had “acquired” a 9kg powder fire extinguisher and set about dismantling it.
Please note the extinguisher was condemned, as scrap due to rust on the neck threaded parts. The head is made from brass and body steel.
Clamping it in the vice he set to, without warning the head flew off, whistling past his head at speed, neatly removing his glasses.
He stumbled backwards, from shock, tripping over the dog, who bolted. Then wet herself on the dining room carpet. He ended up on the floor.
Meanwhile the head, after neatly shattering the twin six foot tube light, fell to the ground. Landing neatly on his groin.
Gravity can not be switched off.
The simple and best advice here is:
If you do not know what you are doing stop.
This guy was very very lucky. It could of bean a lot lot worse.
If any one needs advice on Fire safety and fire extinguishers please feel free to drop me a line, I will try to help.
By the way, he will need a lot of super soft triple ply toilet paper. The powder in those extinguisher’s will give him the screaming s*1ts.
