Fire extinguisher

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yeadon_m
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Fire extinguisher

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Folks,
Not a Kettle special! but, in my opinion, essential equipment to have hanging on your garage or shed wall. If you need it once it will repay the £13 cost a hundred times over and if you don't, its a bit of peace of mind.
Recently I was idling the GT380B in the shed and while it was still running, discovered a pool of petrol under the bike - later found that the middle carb float valve has a bit of grit in it so it was overflowing. Imagine if that had found a spark - doesn't bear thinking about, so I just bought one of these. Anyone know if it would put out a small (just started) petrol fire?
Cheers,
Mike
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Re: Fire extinguisher

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I think, but I'll stand corrected, as long as it's a powder or foam extinguisher, it'll do for petrol.
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Re: Fire extinguisher

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Didge,
Foam may be better, but this link suggests it should work on petrol?
Cheers,
Mike
http://simplyextinguishers.co.uk/fire-e ... nguishers/
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Re: Fire extinguisher

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Actually, I just want to breath in the CO2 to make my voice go funny
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it happened to me 10 years ago and we lost half our house and took a year to rebuild while we were in rented accomodation,wish i had one then !! got a few of them now though.

gb2stroke wrote:Why would you want to set fire to your bike in the first place ?
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