Re: Do G08's REALLY start on fire ?

I could be mistaken; a fire protection shop could inform you better...but I
think dry chemical extinguishers are corrosive. I say this because I put
out an electrical fire on my '69 Chevelle with one, and it seemed to stick
to, and gray out, everything aluminum under hood. Which of course was a
majority of the parts, since I had the car fairly tricked out. Sadly, the
car is now gone.

If you put together a "cabinet-friendly" version of this under-hood
extinguisher you mentioned, you could market it to collectors who would
like to leave their G08's on. ; )

Richard
http://people.atl.mediaone.net/someotherguy
(who doesn't own any G08's)

At 01:05 PM 5/31/00 -0400, you wrote:
>On Tue, 30 May 2000, David Shuman wrote:
>
> > When I visited Duncan a few years ago, he showed me a five-gallon plastic
> > bucket full of G08 boards--all blackened and sooty. Not merely singed or
> > scorched, these suckers had *burned*, presumably until someone took
> positive
> > steps to put out the fire.
>
>Dang. Ouch. OK, no leaving that puppy alone. Hacking in a switcher sounds
>like a good idea too.
>
>I seem to remember a long time ago seeing small fire extinguishers that
>could be mounted under car-hoods to automaticly go off in case of engine
>fire. I'm going to see if anything like that still exists, and if it might
>be applicable to an electronics application (ie -- dry chemical or intert
>gas).
>
>
>Thanks for all the info !
>
>-Chris
>
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