Don't throw out that old fire extinguisher
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- Опубликовано: 27 сен 2024
- What to do when your fire extinguisher goes bad and how to dispose of it properly.
According to NEDT.ORG for the type I had - Not all extinguishers are the same. Always read the label and contact the manufacturer with any questions.
Local fire control near me "mines" the community for empties and under pressured ones. They harvest the chemical and re use it. They pay you a small fee.
Any more information on this? Our company changes probably 10-20 per week and I'd rather donate them them let them go to waste.
@@theinfoone Reach out to a local fire extinguisher inspection and service contractor. See if they want them to reuse the dry chemical.
How do they pay you a fee
@@z9brigade you call it what you want I say fee. It's not deliberation at the UN it's a comment section.
Im my country in eu we have facilities usualy the big firedepartments or an individual one where you can bring it there and they refill/repressure it for like 5€
“Honey! The neighbor is seeing forest fires that aren’t there, again!”
That's a good one lol
"I dont think he took his schizophrenia pills this morning"
@@zayloe999 lmfao 🤣🤣🙈🙉😭💀
“He’s using his phone to check and he’s still doing it”
😂😂😂
"well it's empty now" turns round and see's his house on fire
Lol
LMAO Omg.
Nice lol
Yes it would be better than nothing wouldn't it
Reeeeee
"Don't throw out that old fire extinguisher"
Throws out fire extinguisher.
Yeah I thought this was an upcycle vid …
@@anvilsbane it's better. It's a use it before you throw it out. It gets upcycled, it gets upcycled as trash
@@goldenharborstudios7180 my g you is tripping.
Even throwing away, or even "recycling" an empty one is a waste - once they're empty you can sell them for their scrap metal value.
Exactly what a waste of time watching this. Why not recycle to make something useful out of it is why I even wasted time watching.
Instead of throwing it out how about getting it recharged it saves the landfills and the environment.
most fire safety equipment companies won't recharge ones with plastic heads cause removing the head damages the delicate plastic parts and its not worth repairing. However you can still recycle the metal rather than trash it...
@@brianrice1613 yep, i tried.
Probably not able to. I thought the same, but lots of people cheap out and buy non-rechargeable ones. Not sure why, they have less extinguishing capacity, can't be recharged, are easily broken if accidentally dropped. But hey, they save $5
@@brianrice1613 metal head fire extinguisher gang.
@@brianrice1613 hell, theyre great to reuse.
you can use a hacksaw after depressurizing it, use it as a crucible for a homemade metal foundry you can make out of sand and plaster
which can melt aluminum and copper. great for getting better prices from recycling
really focus on reuse with reduce, reuse, recycle
In my country, the firemen hunt for them and recycle them. It's even free to reload yours when it's still on warranty.
You can’t recharge a plastic head junkie extinguisher such as that kiddie
Is it Hong Kong?
Thing about fertilizer use: it probably depends on whats in the extinguisher as the contents may vary depending on the fire its meant to fight
It varies between wet dry and co2 the dry ones all use the same white fire retardant and the others look different
I bet that shit is full of chemicals
@@entropyincrease864 everything is full of chemicals
@@ianherp5678 there is other types too and how they look are dependent on where you live
@@entropyincrease864 literally everything is full of chemicals
So the lesson here is that if the arrow is just BARELY into the “empty” side, you can still probably put out an engine fire with it.
Go ahead and try that and let me know how it works out... that little can barely knock an engine fire of any size when it's good. When less than full and/or out of date you have no way to know if you're gonna get about what you'd normally expect or a short puff and then nothing. The pressure is merely one factor, the dry Chem powder can cake up and not spray or clog the nozzle. Fires are very severe, dangerous and cause extensive and expensive damage. An extinguisher is cheap protection. I also keep a couple cans of fire gone or similar. It's very effective but doesn't have the mess from the powder so you don't hesitate to use it for fear of the mess or have to deal with that powder after it gets into everything. I also keep a large CO2 extinguisher, with that and the fire gone being the first choice and the dry Chem as a last resort.
Just spray water on it. That's what the FD did when my truck engine caught fire. I had my own water hose and could have sprayed it out myself but was just out of high school and was still remembering not to put water on liquid fires. Might have saved the truck if I knew water was all I needed. 911 didn't say I could and even wasn't going to send anyone until she asked if it was near the house. I know it's bc of liability but the only reason I called was bc I didn't know water was ok on burning gasoline.
you cant count on it working tho. if there is a fire you dont want to waste time on atleast trying that almost empty fire extinguisher. Rather throw it out
No, better to throw them away or have them re certified.
@@TheAnantaSesa in the case of other kinds of fires you can’t always throw water on them. case and point is if it’s any less than full you need a new extinguisher
_"Old fire extinguishers work as fertilizer?!"_
Why am I reminded of that scene in _Fight Club_ where they put up a fake billboard saying _'You can use your used motor oil to water your garden!'_
LMFAO
Dude!! I came here to say exactly the same thing!!
I just thought "what a BS!" and started looking it up. google autocomplete put "as a fertilizer" after my entry of "fire extinguisher powder" and i was "well at least it is a thing!". Turns out it is somehow true. A big company in Germany recycles extinguishers, which are too old to be refurbished and the powder is sold to a fertilizer plant. It undergoes some kind of treatment, which isn't especially defined, but it ends up in fertilizer. My best guess: it's dried and mixed into the fertilizer.
“Don’t breath this stuff”
*Watches an entire cloud of it roll back into his backyard*
Why waste the dry chemical inside or the "container"... turn the extinguisher upside down, tap it a few times to settle the dry chemical at the top, discharge the dry nitrogen gas while it's still upside down and then twist off the head of this plastic gutted extinguisher. (PRO TIP: Buy extinguishers with metal heads that can be recharged)... After you have the head off, dump the still good dry chemical into one or two zip lock baggies. You now have one or two throwable or droppable fire extinguisher bags ready for use on a chimney fire. The aluminum pressure canister and top can be modified by removing the dip tube, cutting it off close to the top without damaging the base where the spring seats on it, holding in the piston (which acts as the discharge valve).You now have a field expedient water bottle after you clean everything with a spot of mild dish detergent. The valve has o-rings to keep it from leaking, as does the base of the valve assembly where it seats onto the cylinder... Or, you can just modify the valve assembly into a plug, to keep it simple. The aluminium cylinder is food grade, the former contents are basically inert monoammonium phosphate or Sodium Bicarbonate based extinguisher agents. The plastic heads on these cheap extinguishers are high grade and stable. You only need enough to make a plug.
Since I assume you mean to pour the bag out from the top of the chimney that's not likely to be very commonly needed. Wouldn't it maybe be more handy to use the bags for camping and pour them on a campfire when done cooking?
@@TheAnantaSesa Back in the 1980s we had a major uptick of chimney fires in our city. Several of the engine and ladder companies began to put together chimney fire kits including metal trash cans to carry out the fuel load in the fire place or wood stove, long sleeve welders gloves, large tongs and special nozzles to drop into the tops of chimneys to slowly add a steam effect to put out the fire without fracturing the flue linings. Making up dry chemical chimney "baggie bombs" to knock down the fire initially was a part of the kits. They worked fairly well. Often, three or four dropped down the chimney was enough to knock it down. It was thought that they were less likely to be destructive to the flues and were not as messy as initially using water. Chimney fires are messy to begin with. They can also destroy enough of the chimney to spread fire into the structure. In our city, ANY chimney fire, no matter how seemingly minor, earned the structure of the chimney itself as unsafe and a red tag was issued. That's why I said it. It's not a bad idea for a camp fire as you stated. Prevention of the spread of fire in any wilderness? In this day and age, with the destructiveness of a wildfire spreading and endangering the lives and property throughout the world, an once of prevention is certainly something that might keep you out of trouble and garnering a hefty fine and possibly a prison sentence if you're found criminally negligent.
@Randy Porter Which FEs are you referring to? The Kidde plastic headed POSs sold in the home centers? Those? They were a waste of time, money and effort. I don't know but I would think that they were getting a bit of heat from the consumer protection groups from all the complaints of the end users. Extruded plastic heads manufactured without much quality control, prone to warpage from ambient heat and sunlight degradation to the plastic itself, some to a point where the plastic could crumble from hand pressure. A pressure guage held in place, sometimes quite loosely, with a tiny metal clip instead of a threaded base. One shot wonders nearly impossible to be recharged and most of them unlikely to hold the nitrogen, even with the most meticulous attention to the cleaning and re-lubbing of the O-rings. Some of the very earliest ones had nozzles built in to the plastic head and how could it even be filled with gas if there was no threads to hold the fitting for recharging... therefore the Kidde Corporation was making a one and done throwaway piece of crap, instead of a rechargeable, more economical design for the consumer. When anyone brought one in, I would break it down and show them why and how they were not worth attempting to recharge and compare them to the better metal head ones of several manufacturers, all easily cleaned, refilled and recharged with new parts and O-rings easily obtained from the various manufacturers. Ya get whatcha pay for... so, don't go cheap with anything related to fire safety. Don't misunderstand me about Kidde. They did and still do make quality products in their larger sized, non plastic headed extinguishers and other product lines. Their foray into the world of cheap plastic crap was a bad business decision and they created a lot of ill will towards themselves.
I keep an ammo can with chimney bags for just that. But I'm a fireman so I don't expect most to know this
@@TheAnantaSesa depends on where you live, I started as a rural firefighter and it would take upwards of 30 minutes to get an engine or even brush truck out to you and 75-90% of fires were us just making sure it didn't spread and the structure would be a complete loss. This could save some houses if you have the wherewithal to do this
"Has no pressure" Creates a cloud the size of, Texas.
Whenever an extinguisher goes bad, it's learning time! I grab the kids, start a fire, and have one of them practice!
@@privilegedwhitemale306 poggers name
@@privilegedwhitemale306 your name says a lot
Heating them in the oven raises the pressure
@@dcraexon that sounds like a bad idea
@@jamesrosewell9081 🤣
“It’s lost too much pressure”
“Oh it has a ton of pressure left”
It probably has 18 bar in it... Compare it to a truck tire...
It’s lost too much pressure for a fire.
Has enough to put on plants cuz they don’t touch things and also make them plants
The lesson of the clip is that even an old extinguisher has enough pressure to put out a fire
No shit
A dangerous lesson to follow. 0 garauntees.
Nope. I had one that was the same place on the gauge, a lil more towards the green actually, had about 1.5 seconds of spray MAX
Unless you need it and you get literally nothing out of it and your house burns down. Worth saving $25?
In fact there are regulations to make sure that "full" is enough to put out a meduium fire, and they should be disposed of if they are at "empty"
“You don’t wanna breathe this stuff”
Also him
*sprays all of it into the wildlife*
I’m not sure if this is true but I think there is some plant(s) that will absorb the stuff
Humans and plants aren’t the same
ABC dry chem isn't toxic, you don't wanna breathe it because you shouldn't be inhaling lots of fine powder
@@microwave221 yeah, a lot of stuff that we don't consider toxic is bad to breathe a bunch of powder of. That would include things like sawdust which would harmlessly decompose if you spread it around in the woods.
@Edward Elizabeth Hitler It is a problem contributing to blooms in aquatic environments, but not much more so than other fertilizers to my knowledge. The issue only arises in far larger amounts or when introduced directly into water networks, so I certainly wouldn't condone dumping masses of it into storm drains. While the video isn't very rigorous, I very much support the message of not disposing charged pressure vessels, having worked both in fire equipment as well as on the back of a compacting recycling truck.
"Dont throw out that old fire extinguisher" *throws out the fire extinguisher*
“Don’t breathe it, it’s bad for you.”
*sprays all over yard
It doesn't stay in the air forever 💀
Yes because what is good for humans and a yard is infact different. It’s like saying, “puts fertilizer on yard, *but doesn’t eat it” (and for what it’s worth. There’s no way fire extinguisher shit can be used as fertilizer.) there’s stuff in there I know is not “fertilizer”
@@cbearslife4950 Fire extinguisher powder can be recycled in to a fertilizer, they remove the silicone caking agents from it. Taking a quick look at the ingredients in the powder, I can confirm that some plants do in fact prosper with these elements in their soil
Yeah apparently humans have extremely bad perception of airborne particle travel.
People have forgotten how to just enjoy a comment without taking it seriously 😔
*introduces some forever chemicals into my backyard food supply like a boss*
He says it’s similar to fertilizer and then sprays the shit straight in the air, not even trying to get it on the ground. Fertilizer is absorbed through the roots and needs to be concentrated near the specific trees.
Bad to breathe, but safe to discharge into the wilderness?
You mean like every chemical they spray farms with?
@@ETAisNOW talk out of your ass much? Hahaha
Exactly smh
dirt is also bad to breathe FYI
@@Chuck_Huckler dirt also belongs there
This short was filled with so much bad information, it needs to be annotated or just removed.
Seriously. There are lots of kinds of fire extinguishers and different formulas, but disposing of any chemicals by spraying them outside is generally a dumb idea for a lot of reasons.
The couple times I've used fire extinguishers or been near one when it's sprayed, it's pretty nasty and you always end up breathing it in and getting it on your clothes.
Call your local fire dept because many accept extinguishers, or drop it at your county's hazardous waste drop off sites.
Totally agree.
@@awakentruth1116 Climate Crisis.
@@awakentruth1116 wtf is your problem
@@awakentruth1116 you must not get out much. Just yesterday a Glacier melted so fast Up in the mountains there was a giant old historic bridge wiped out in Pakistan from what looked like the same as when half the mountain came off into Silver lake…. The creek responded the same exact way as when Mount Saint Helens straight did the same, but today it was extreme heat in a place that never de thaws. So maybe you should brush up on your “awakening”
I would keep it as a backup seeing as it still had a lot of pressure. When I was in a house fire we went through 6 large extinguishers to get out.
you keep that many?
"Oh a little bit snuck out there" That has been many people last words.
@@ww3662Haha nice
@@ww3662 heh, nice.
" " - German officer 1915
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Thank you for showing everyone how to properly and safely dispose of a fire extinguisher. I learned that the insides aren't useless, and others learned the whole way round too! I feel we should share this type of information just as a reminder on occasion. It's good for us
That was not proper or safe to put in the recycling bin.
Yes, plants love their leaves sprayed with fertilizer. That’s how you do it.
Spraying it in the air is to disperse it into a wider area
Look up what a foliar spray is. The real issue is that that those chemicals are definitely not going to be helping your plants.
@@thomastailby7926 gardening expert isee
@@Pants13 Yeah. I've been searching the comments to see if anybody even knew what was in the spray and if it might be harmful to plants
“Don’t breathe this stuff in”
*remembers a memory of a party where everyone was piss drunk and someone came out with a fire extinguisher and sprayed the entire group and multiple extinguisher fights went on*
I once stole this dudes Xbox 360 with the cords n controller and his bong at this party 😂 I was drunk as hell and I creeped into the hallway and got into the bedrooms. I was making trips from the room to the trunk of the car & on my 3rd trip going back for the stack of games the dude came into the room and was like "wtf!" He turned around and went back into the living room/kitchen area where most the people were at. He yells for his buddies and by then I had made it out the house. They all ran after me (i can't remember for the life of me where I got the fire extinguisher from, but I had one) I pointed it at the group like it was a gun, like "stay back!" And by then my buddies came out and had made it into the car, I jumped in and we took off. I want to say they called the cops while all this was unfolding but I could be wrong & the cops just came cause it was loud & obvious there was a party there with all the cars & ppl. The house was at the bottom of this hill in this residential area & As we were leaving & made it up the hill there was cops heading the other way.
I have no idea why that guy who caught me in his room didn't take off of me and try to fuck me up. I know I would have done that if I found someone in my room stealing my stuff 🤣
They were some pussy stoner/surfer type white dudes though.
Shit is funny to think back about it now but it was mad fucked up To do that lol 😆
I think they said something to me that pissed me off for me to do that. It's really hard to remember the little details cause this was like 12-14 years ago.
They do not go bad, most of the time they lose pressure. Just need to be checked and repressurized. Do not randomly empty them, just take them to your local recycling center or call your fire department to ask what to do with them.
Them: *"don't throw out that old fire extinguisher"*
Them later: *"Throw out that old fire extinguisher"*
Trees- "Are we having another fire drill?!!!!"
Rifle target was the first thing that I thought of.
"They lose pressure, so you gotta throw them out! But before you throw it out, let the pressure out! There's a ton in it!" What the heck man.
This is cool n all but who actually has a fire extinsher in their house?
@@Fanwithnblades I used to carry one in my daily driver
@@TechDeath28 nice
@@Fanwithnblades anyone with a brain
@@pieguy203 yeah bs no one has these in there house not saying you shouldn't just saying. K one actually has these in there house
Ok guys some knowledge. The gage usually shows empty after a couple of months of being straped on the side of a truck / skidsteer etc. Not because of it going bad. It's the powder, the shaking and bouncing actually packs the powder to the bottom making a false empty. Just roll it down a big bumpy hill / kick it around for 5 mins and it fluffs the powder back up making it safe to use.
As a fire extinguisher technician I can confirm that this is indeed sometimes the case. But don’t kick it down a hill to loosen it up 😆 Just turn it upside down and tap it a bit with a rubber mallet. That should be all it needs.
I am a portable fire technician. You can only use a dry chemical powder Extinguisher once before it needs filling. The seal will be broken and will leak out the nitrogen stored to push the powder out. Even a tap on the handle will cause this.
Thanks for your efforts in preventing future forest fires.
Nah fam. That shit is gonna get on the leaves, kill the plants, and then make perfect fire fuel
@@BMUU666 Thanks Fire Marshall Bill.
Another safe way of dispensing fire extinguishers is with a 308 and/or 556 Sometimes 9 mm or 45 ACP will indeed help you remove your fire extinguishers but bigger rounds are recommended
You weld an on-off nozzle with a connection for an air hose and then you fill it three-quarters of the way with water and hook the air compressor up to it and pump it up to 100 lb with 3/4 of the way water in there and you got a squirt gun
shrader valve would work better
Empty, remove top.
Drill 7/16 hole near the top, pull through a tubeless tyre/tire valve is the easy way to do it, well except for the rubic's level puzzle of getting the valve to line up with the drilled hole.
@@aaronnoyb they sell this tire valve installer that doesnt need to have the tire unseated , in this case it would work for the extinguisher . you pretty much shove the tire valve stem in from the outside of the object rather through it. ia ya didnt have that tool you could just tie a string to the valve and install the normal way..
@@johndowe7003
Install a valve from the outside, news to me, I will need to investigate further. Thanks.
Brad..thank you for the idea I’ll be testin it out on my Cousin
I wonder how many brain cells I lost while listing to him talk
So many aspects of this video motivate me to engage, respond, react discuss or otherwise increase my involvement with this video somehow. I'm certainly more informed than others on this subject... It's more like my civil duty to educate the naive masses! My attention couldn't possibly be put to batter use I've decided. Any products or services I learn about while on this rabbit hole is purely coincidental. If I'm wrong, I hope my insurance covers cognitive behavioral and addiction therapy.
I just fertilized all of my neighbors plants, he aint too grateful about it though 🤔
He said to use the fire extinguishers as fertilizer, not your.... Nevermind
@@masonmethot3186 damn...
Ya don’t do that take it to the proper facility to be discarded don’t spray it like that when there is no fire. And most of all DONT PUT IT IN THE TRASH CAN
You're absolutely right ! . . . He should have tossed it in the recycle bin 😌
Just following what the fire folks said to do, these can't go in a recycle container
Calm down toots, not that big of a deal
@@369Sigma nothing is for a simpleton
@@jackster2568 ok
They can go bad? Me realizing that same fire extinguisher I hit my head on in the school hallways has been sitting there for years
‘Don’t throw your fire extinguisher in the bin’
Last thing he does - throws it in the bin.
lol your knowledge is powerful… thanks now I can’t get those 90 seconds back
Bruh if your name is "Terp" anything you BETTER find gardening information useful
@@Direblade11 I have some bad news for you...you aren't getting ANY time back, regardless if it was wasted or not
@@ThomasSawyers Eh, I'm not an alcoholic and I've got a career you wouldn't expect from a stoner :)
I call it the "better safe than sorry guage". A small drop doesn't mean it's completely useless. It gives you a rough idea but it's really there to ensure the most pressure possible during an emergency when seconds count.
“Don’t throw it out”
*throws it out
Came here to say the same. Kudos
Exactly. This entire video is ridiculous, along with the cymbal who created it.
"does say it's dangerous" that shit will literally suffocate you
Depends on the type of the extinguishers
@@frogmeme9332 thar abc dust he sprayed will. It also is highly corrosive to metal.
@@WhiteSandsMbuna maybe if you inhaled the entire contents. Just like a Sodium Bicarbonate AB(E) extinguisher, they're only mildly irritating to respiration but easily resolved when exposed to fresh air.
General use domestic extinguishers would be useless if they were extremely dangerous in confined spaces and their viability depended on 'correct' usage.
@@WhiteSandsMbuna it’s not “highly corrosive” the correct term is mildly corrosive and it is corrosive if left on it for a period of time. ABC DRY chemical is not some lethal chemical, they wouldn’t put it in an extinguisher if you couldn’t be exposed to in short periods of time. Please don’t tell us fire life safety guys how our equipment works. I do extinguisher work and refill ABC extinguisher daily, you wear a mask bc that shit is like dust. But it can cause at most irritation to the skin or upon being inhaled. 😮💨🤣
ABC dry chem is irritating to breathe, but no more than any other fine powder. CO2, the old halons, or the halotron extinguishers that replaced them could suffocate you, but only in a closed environment and far larger amounts than the size pictured.
The title is don't throw out the fire extinguisher, so you dump out the chemical in the wods and do exactly what the title says not to do. Brilliant.
"Don't throw it away. Throw it away!"
I thought you'd show how to repurpose it or something. Lol you basically just showed how to play with one.
Cartoons always depict a fire extinguishers as foamy but I always knows that they're very powdery
Depends on the type
That definitely could have put out a fire... lol I like how he even said, "oh it says it's bad, that's why you do this"
**pshhhh**
"Oh.. it wasn't bad"
As a previous fire tech we used to rebuild these. Just untwist the valve assembly from the cylinder. It will pop like a can of biscuits and let out the nitrogen. Beats making a mess.
I repaint them blue, add a Schrader valve, and refill them with water. Ok for some fires but a lot of fun on hot days.
Yeah I would've bought a second one and kept this one just in case it has plenty of pressure in it still , which it did ...so there you go..
Keep it and buy a backup ..
Don't keep an extinguisher that is already reading low as a backup, it's literally worse than nothing. An ineffective extinguisher causes you to run back towards a danger that it can't handle and can delay getting you to safety or activating 911
I got two things for you. I wouldn't throw that in the trash, it's made out of aluminum. And the second thing, there's many fire safety companies that will pay you a few dollars if you bring it into them. They refill them and recertify them, and give them out to businesses that need them. Less waste, more space. And that was an interesting fact about spraying them near Pine trees.
"Look how much pressure it had left!"
Me: then why tf are you wasting it?
That's right that gauge just wants you to go buy another one former firefighter here but it's good to buy an extra one anyway so keep the old ones if they don't work grab another one
Why the hell didn't you say recycle, instead of throwing it out.
There aren't any recycling arrows on a fire extinguisher
They make good reactive targets too.
You can recycle them… most of them are made so you have the option to reuse them. Many company’s will accept them, it’s a lot safer that way. :)
Yea, it's extremely toxic to breath. Anytime I see a video of somone pranking someone else by spraying them I shudder.
this looks like a powder extinguisher, should be pretty much inert, no? Unless I'm seeing it wrong and this is a PFAS loaded foam extinguisher
@@Netherlands031 nope the powder ones are just as bad if not worse because it's so easy to inhale
wow a video showing me to empty something before throwing it into a trashbin, how genius
"The caterpillars eating those leaves"
Why is it spicy 🥵
True
Needs more like😂
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@@LibertyCity04 Lmao someone noticed after like 3 years
I want every single second of my time back. What a massive waste of one minute that I'll never get back lmao
U can fill them with any thing and recharge with air compressor.....have fun 😊
If you want to create a pressure bomb sure.
@@pootmahgoots8482 was pressure not already in it for years?
Just don't overpressure it... It's got a gauge after all.
I remember being on staff duty and some moron in the barracks set one of these off. Since our extra duty guys were off picking up litter, my cherry private ass got to go and sweep the entire hallway this was set off in.what a great way to spend a Saturday. Didnt even get time off for PT since it was a weekend.
You can take an extinguisher like that and turn it into a flame thrower pretty easily
found an old one where printed clearly on it was the safe self recharging procedure flip upside down depressurize then repressurize with nitrogen keepin it too,and don't trash 🗑️ please recycle ♻️
It's also good to every once in a while hold the canister upside down because the power substance inside can harden if it's been sitting in one location long enough.
Yea "empty" lol you sound like you're from massachusetts
Maine?
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Empties and throws out a perfectly good fire extinguisher!
I think it was still good for a stove fire.
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Maybe, but do you want to take the chance, or at least have 2
@@SilverCymbal Yea have two don't throw out the old one.
That’s all a tiny extinguisher is good for in the first place. Or maybe an engine fire.
For some reason I thought this was going to be one of those wacky "secret tips" to make some dumb thing out of an old fire extinguisher type videos.
You can’t really “breathe” the gas that the fire extinguisher fires. It sucks up all of the oxygen in the air to suffocate the fire, so if you breathed it in, you wouldn’t.
Clearly a comment that needs to be fact checked
No it’s just wrong and dumb. You can drown in water. You can breath in tear gas. You can breathe all kids of gasses and liquids that have zero oxygen. Are you trying to say you can’t actually respirate? No, I think you just have an extremely low intelligence.
@@chalkylover it’s just wrong
If you take it to your local fire suppression company (usually privately owned) they can fix it and refill it for you, and even replace some parts on it. I work in aviation and we have a private company come out and "annual" all of our extinguishers. They have a box truck full of equipment and they can empty the old chemical and refill them.
I’ve breathed it in and it tasted absolutely terrible 0/10 do not recommend
i have empty around 30 years old fire extinguisher and it still worked after i pulled the sprint and it was more rusty than red.. it was at a recycling center and so far every fire extinguisher who has came in whit pressure has worked.. and we must empty every pressure tank before they goes to metall bin or if it to dangers thing it goes to the special bin for hazard material
Or you can shoot it with a high power rifle, that’s what I do. They make for the best targets
Xactly
I put mine in the trash. The trash that goes to the landfill. The landfill that’s in the old open pit quarry. The open pit quarry that was mined using 9 year olds with wooden sticks. Thats what I do.
I can't imagine anyone "throwing out" a several pound aluminum tank.
Actually more often than not what happens in extinguisher is all the powder settles to the bottom and cakes up. So it makes a clump and what you have to do with your extinguishers is to shake it regularly to make sure that the powder is free to move around.
The start to any sci fi movie
The best thing to do with fire extinguishers that are empty that I've always done is get a little bonfire going out in the backyard and then all your empty fire extinguishers that you got you know 15-20 of them go ahead and throw them in the fire. Now you want to make sure you stand real close for as long as it takes to the fire that way you can more closely observe what happens.
fun fact apparently youre supposed to tip your fire extinguisher upside-down and right-side a few times once a month to help preserve the life of it (I think I don't actually remember what it does but you are supposed to tip it once a month) :)
You can cram an air compressor nozzle in the fire extinguisher hose and recharge it at home. I've done it with plastic topped ones.
That arrow is just a suggestion. It's fine don't worry about it, you'll be fine
You have them serviced at a fraction of the cost of a new one . They screen the power or replace it . Then they clean the valve and pressure up the bottle . You don’t have to discharge it .
Landfill treasure for future archeologists to find.
I know I guy that worked for a fire extinguisher business recharging extinguishers. He had a couple guys try and road rage him. He sprayed them in the face with an extinguisher and got back in his truck and drove away.
As a fire extinguisher tech don’t buy these plastic handle fire extinguishers. They are not rechargeable and could break leading to leaks and possibly discharging. Some of these plastic extinguishers go on recall for the handle breaking for being plastic. If you buy one make sure it’s a metal handle
That pressure tank can be used for a lot of things.
Don't throw it out even after discharging. They can be recharged, recycled, or used for metalworking projects.
Alternatively, you can either donate it to a fire department or, a better option, go to the fire department and ask them to recharge it. Most will do it for free or for a very nominal fee. They will also test it to make sure it is still safe to use.
You can also use it for target practice. They're awesome to shoot
An old fire extinguishers make a good water blaster also..with some fittings/ Schrader value. Shooter water a long ways
"you can this with the old ones that lost pressure and read empty" proceeds to show his still has plenty of pressure
Hold it upside down and then pull the trigger. It will avoid spraying a big cloud everywhere. Then with not too much force the nozzle can be spun out like a screw and discarded. At this point most of the powder material is still in the bottom so it can be dumped out or used as fertilizer. Now you have an empty metal canister which can be put with other scrap metal.
... or better yet, contact your local fire-department who will either be able to tell you where to take the extinguisher for recycling or take the extinguisher themselves for recycling.
Occasionally, our local community will even do a "swap-out" day - bring in the old extinguisher and they will give you a new one - local businesses donate the money for the program.
I keep my expired units in the garage (along with fresh ones).
Do *NOT* just spray it out. These extinguishers contain PFAS and PFOS.