[Fot] Fire Bottle Refill - the verdict

[robert bownes]

I use the expired non re-usable powder extinguishers to teach my teacher
wife's schoolkids how to use them. Always a big hit on fire safety day. :)

On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 5:13 PM Scott Janzen via Fot <fot at autox.team.net>
wrote:

> I ended up taking my Halon bottle to a local place that services fire
> extinguishers, including Halon.  Old school guy, looked at the bottle,
> hefted it, listened to the liquid sloshing around and said “this is fine”.
> He went on to say that if there was a leak the halon would have been gone a
> long time ago, that these gauges are almost always accurate, and that
> servicing would cost a few hundred bucks, mainly because in the process he
> would lose a 1/4 to a 1/2 lb of Halon that he would have to refill.  So, it
> went back in the car.
>
> I also learned that if you have those ABC fire extinguishers around the
> house or in your shop, if they have a metal top and valve, they can be
> serviced, but the ones with the black plastic valve assemblies are
> disposable.  At ten years old or more, it’s time to replace all of mine.
> He said the thing to do before disposing is tap the valve - some of the
> fire suppressant material will end up in the valve seat and allow the
> pressure to bleed out, and that way I’m not tossing a pressurized container
> in the trash that will end up exploding in the trash truck compactor.
>
> Scott
>
> On Mar 9, 2019, at 5:42 PM, John Frymark MacBook <jfrymark at aol.com> wrote:
>
> Scott,
>
> I sent a Fire Bottle in 2013 to a company in Ft Myers, FL to recharge a
> “short” 5 lb canister that is no longer offered by the company. I liked the
> placement of that unit in my car and didn’t want to have to reconfigure for
> a different size. They had me ship to them as “hazardous materials” via UPS
> and shipped back the same way. Not much over $200 total. Interestingly,
> they said my 1996 era bottle was still almost fully charged when they
> checked and refilled. I weigh my bottle every year to make certain there
> hasn’t been a change in the weight/charge.
>
> Here is the web site: www.firebottleracing.com. I suspect not many are
> certified to deal with Halon refilling.
>
> John Frymark
>
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