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Re: Fire Bottle Delima

To: "drmayf" <drmayf@mayfco.com>, "LSR" <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Fire Bottle Delima
From: "John Beckett" <saltracer@servusa.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 06:47:32 -0400
Call Joe Timney at 302-378-3013. He can answer all your questions. He will 
also be at Speed Week, so if you have any needs he can bring it with him.

JB


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "drmayf" <drmayf@mayfco.com>
To: "LSR" <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, July 22, 2005 10:22 PM
Subject: Fire Bottle Delima


> Well, looking grim regards my fire bottle. Big nasty DOT note about 
> prison, death firing squad, fine, etc...if refilled. So... guess I will 
> bite the bullet and switch to cold fire. Now I have a question or 2 of the 
> list: how does a 10 pound halonbottle translate to the same protection in 
> cold fire. What I mean...does a cold fire bottle need to be 20 gallons to 
> get the same 10 pound halon protection? Are the bottle the same size? 
> Seems like halon is heavier than water so a 10 pound system wold have to 
> be larger... In the dark here. Looked on Deist's new web page and it is 
> for shit in that when you click on fire systems, you get nozzles and 
> that's all.  So I am looking for information.
>
> My rationale for changing to cold fire is that my car is open and halon 
> will very rapidly dissapate where as a water based liquid system will wet 
> me down and stayy with me and not dissapate. Make sense? Does to me but 
> whadda I know... There is at least one among you who knows...tell me..
>
> mayf






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