Thread: What your truck needs.

Originally Posted by timattalon

Warehouse had Orca 1kg dry powder at $20...Mitre 10 Mega had some at $18.99 (?) of their house brand. We used our extinguisher before christmas and still have a lounge (albeit with a few scorch marks) from a lithium 18650 that did a great impersonation of a sky rocket in the house. Get one for each vehicle and a couple for the house / garage....you never know.

Having attempted to extinguish a fire recently with a large dry powder id have to say they are pretty useless for most fires apart from lithium battery fires..dont know how useful they'd be in a vehicle fire, one of the. Volunteers on here should know more?

Originally Posted by specweapon

Having attempted to extinguish a fire recently with a large dry powder id have to say they are pretty useless for most fires apart from lithium battery fires..dont know how useful they'd be in a vehicle fire, one of the. Volunteers on here should know more?

All depends on the type of fire, Iv put out two fires with dry powders and found em very effective and very messy / hazardous to breathing.

Hyd oil/sawdust in a forklift and turps spilled all around my feet inside a vessel while plasma cutting.

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

All depends on the type of fire, Iv put out two fires with dry powders and found em very effective and very messy / hazardous to breathing.

Hyd oil/sawdust in a forklift and turps spilled all around my feet inside a vessel while plasma cutting.

Dry powder ext can save the day in a road rage situation. At our Fire Ext course, the instructer said he'd squirted someone in the face who was angry, and it neutralised the situation straight away

Originally Posted by specweapon

Having attempted to extinguish a fire recently with a large dry powder id have to say they are pretty useless for most fires apart from lithium battery fires..dont know how useful they'd be in a vehicle fire, one of the. Volunteers on here should know more?

dry powder is ok but is horirbly corrosive to alluminium so it needs to be washed off asap. BCF is awesome but the green police have banned their use.