Fire Extinguisher Options
Looking for fire extinguisher and mounting suggestions for a 944 street car. What are folks using these days?
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I have a redline kit. Very clean look and cheap. Though I just got a standard chemical extinguisher, not a halotron gas unit.
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Rennline with HalGuard. http://www.rennline.com/Safety/products/801/
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Brey Krause mount / Safecraft Halon.
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Stable energies makes a great mount!
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I took a standard $20 dry chem from home depot (First Alert) and ordered a metal bracket for it instead of the plastic one that comes with it. (First Alert part # FEBRA2-6 for the bracket)
A bit of aluminum strap riveted to the bracket let me hang it from the 6mm bolt on the side of the console. The aluminum just slips up between the carpet and the side of the console. I put a couple of short self-tapping screws at the bottom of the bracket which really just go into the carpet to keep it level. With the way this is oriented with the clamp, I can reach over from the drivers seat with my right hand, grab the extinguisher and release the latch with my thumb; all in one quick, smooth motion. |
Dry chem is better than nothing but I would suggest springing for the modern equivalent to halon... Which I think is halatron
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I've got a halguard as well.
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I have a dry chem as well, it is white and marketed as a "recreational" variant for auto and motorhome use. I have it mounted crosswise between my seats off the harness bar on the 4 point roll bar, accessible, but out of the way.
I'll do a pic if anyone wants one. Jeff |
Originally Posted by ditch68
(Post 9775062)
I have a dry chem as well, it is white and marketed as a "recreational" variant for auto and motorhome use. I have it mounted crosswise between my seats off the harness bar on the 4 point roll bar, accessible, but out of the way.
I'll do a pic if anyone wants one. Jeff Here is my mount btw: http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/k...1-04163819.jpg |
Here it is. Made by "First Alert", got it at the local Ace Hardware - $17.00 and change. I'll spring for Halon at some point, but this was cheap. Better than nothing, I say.
Came with a cheap plastic bracket and strap, I replaced the strap with a nylon one until I source a better bracket. Jeff http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v390/ditch68/fire.jpg |
If you hit something solid, that extinguisher will become a projectile...
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How will this one do so more than any other shown on this thread? They all, including this one, have a retention strap and a solid mounting.
It does not move in it's mount. The retention strap is not just sitting there, it is buckled. It's not there to get at quickly as much as just being there and reachable from either seat. I may move it to the passenger side of the tunnel like jpk did, haven't decided yet. It is also behind the 4 point harnesses. I also may just move it toward the passenger side partly behind that seat. Jeff |
it is the cheap plastic bracket that would concern me. mine has two steel straps that are bolted to a significant aluminum plate. its hard to tell from the picture, but it looks like the bracket may break with enough force.
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I see your point(s).
I just went online and found a steel bracket for it made by the manufacturer, just like the one jpk has. Better safe than sorry. Jeff |
Originally Posted by jpk
(Post 9773590)
I took a standard $20 dry chem from home depot (First Alert) and ordered a metal bracket for it instead of the plastic one that comes with it. (First Alert part # FEBRA2-6 for the bracket)
A bit of aluminum strap riveted to the bracket let me hang it from the 6mm bolt on the side of the console. The aluminum just slips up between the carpet and the side of the console. I put a couple of short self-tapping screws at the bottom of the bracket which really just go into the carpet to keep it level. With the way this is oriented with the clamp, I can reach over from the drivers seat with my right hand, grab the extinguisher and release the latch with my thumb; all in one quick, smooth motion. |
Just a hole for the bolt. The aluminum is not really a strap; its aluminum bar stock, 1 1/2 " wide by 1/8" thick. I think I used a piece about 4-5 inches long or so.
The aluminum bar slips up between the internal console support bracket and the side piece of the console. The bolt (screw) goes through the console side , then the aluminum, then into the threaded insert in the steel bracket which is secured to the trans tunnel inside the console. I think I put a little bend in the aluminum bar to make it work, but it wasn't much effort to bolt this in at all. The extra couple of screws were put in directly through the bracket and really just go into the carpet. It's enough to keep the extinguisher from pivoting and keeps the extinguisher level. This has held up for a couple of years now and 10-12 DE days; I don't see any issues or problems with this install. |
Thanks John
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You can make them very easily out of flat bar - thats what i did;
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Well, four years later, and I finally got around to installing an extinguisher permanently. Was tired of it rolling around behind the seats. I ended up going with the Brey-Krause under-seat mount and quick release, along with a Halon extinguisher. I didn't like the brushed stainless of the mounting bar so used Eastwood's wrinkle finish black powder coat, which came out better than expected. Installing the mounting bar is fairly easy. Trick is to leave the rear bolts torqued in place and just remove the front two seat bolts so you can slip the mount under (might need to pry up a tad with a screwdriver). The mount does limit the seat travel a bit, so you can't get to the rear bolts once it is installed (hence the need to leave the rears tight when installing, since there is no way to tighten the rears once the bar is in -- ask me how I know...).
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Ditch, good move. Lose the hose clamps, they are not designed to hold things together in an impact and as someone has pointed out, will leave you with a weighty projectile at head-level in an incident. As you say, better safe than sorry... or brain injured. Cheers,
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Looks great Tom.
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Tom, shouldn't the release clamp go to the front? How well does it work between the seat and the extinguisher?
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Originally Posted by azbanks
(Post 13570601)
Tom, shouldn't the release clamp go to the front? How well does it work between the seat and the extinguisher?
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I have this one too, a bit of a pain to install and bounces a bit while driving, but looks great.
Originally Posted by HICKS
(Post 9773405)
Rennline with HalGuard. http://www.rennline.com/Safety/products/801/
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I have relegated my HalGuard to garage duty because the trigger mechanism would rattle in the car. The safecraft one in my picture above is rattle-free in comparison, though it is a tad bit smaller in diameter, so I had to use some foam spacers to make it tight in the clamp -- you can see it in the picture is you look closely...
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Originally Posted by curtisr
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Seriously a dry chemical extinguisher is terrible for use on something you would like to rebuild should you suffer a fire :( To smother a fire the dry chemical forms a crust to seal out air from the fire, what doesn't gets into everything as fine powder and is very corrosive. Been there, fixed that, but in my case it was a Cessna 172. Ground crewman standing by on engine start used one on an engine fire caused by a backfire thru an over primed carburetor (updraft). CO2 or Halon are the way to go. From what I was told 25 years ago Halon produced less thermal shock to sensitive aircraft instruments in the event of an electrical fire vs. CO2. I carried a small Halon extinguisher in my flight bag and had a larger one mounted under the pilot's seat in my Grumman. Thank God I never needed it in the cockpit or on the ground :) |
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