refilling a fire extingusher

[mtnbkr]

Goat meat is actually excellent  BBQ'd. I prefer it to Pork.

Dunno if I prefer it, but I do like it. 

Chris

[HankB]

In the barn on my little farm, I found an antique passive fire extinguisher which had about a quart of carbon tetrachloride (CCl4) in a glass bottle  . . .

I remember an undergraduate chemistry class which involved heating some carbon tet in an open beaker under a hood in the lab . . . one of the tech aides made a point of going around to warn us of the explosive fire danger should we let some of this "flammable solvent" spill on the Bunsen burner flame. 

(Better she should have warned us of the phosgene gas hazard when heated, hence the hood.)

[zxcvbob]

Family guy.

"Who buys a novelty fire extinguisher?  I'll tell you who: someone who cares enough about physical comedy to put his entire family into serious danger, that's who."

One of the funniest scenes from "Monk" was at a school science fair.  One of the kids built a fire extinguisher -- filled with turpentine.  (who uses turpentine for anything anymore?)  Captain Stottlemeyer got ahold of it and hilarity ensued.

[230RN]

I remember an undergraduate chemistry class which involved heating some carbon tet in an open beaker under a hood in the lab . . . one of the tech aides made a point of going around to warn us of the explosive fire danger should we let some of this "flammable solvent" spill on the Bunsen burner flame.  
(Better she should have warned us of the phosgene gas hazard when heated, hence the hood.)

Double face palm!  In the forties, my Pop had a couple of the pump-type carben tet extinguishers around in the basement, where he had his shop. I remember him telling me it was one of the few things that would dissolve elemental sufur.

I tell ya, if I had kept half the stuff I/we had when I was a kid, I'd be a very wealthy antique dealer now, I tell ya.

Terry, 230RN