Don't throw out that old fire extinguisher
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 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€
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 🤣
"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
“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”
😂😂😂
"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.
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?
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
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
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
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"
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
_"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.
You can recharge them and recycle
Most can be recharged. Some of the plastic head ones can’t/shouldn’t be recharged
Larger, industrial sized ones you can but the smaller, cheaper ones you cant.
@@pootmahgoots8482 Here we can recharge small ones too.
@@SanforJekyll if they have plastic nozzles, you cannot.
True, but the recycling people will sell them back to the manufacturer, like glass coke bottles.
These kinds of things are always recycled one way or another.
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.
“Don’t breath this stuff”
*Watches an entire cloud of it roll back into his backyard*
"Has no pressure" Creates a cloud the size of, Texas.
“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
“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.
When I was a young dumby I sprayed one of my dad’s extinguishers all over the hard having fun with a buddy. It killed every bit of grass it touched. My dad was not happy
Wonder what happens if u drink it
@@fefek1 I feel like there’s a joke to be made here but it’s eluding me….
@@fefek1 same thing that happened to the grass, will happen to u
“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 😔
Looks like that would still be useful against a home fire, seems like a needless waste
Right
But would YOU trust it? It's a fire extinguisher with low pressure, not realiable imo.
@@enzoperruccio I wouldn't waste it just because the needle is touching red.
A grease fire in a kitchen for sure. But a HOUSE fire requires a fire truck.
@@thetruthexperiment okay but that's still true if the extinguisher is fully charged
Yaaa. I keep mine for the “just in case”. You had PLENTY of pressure for a kitchen fire. I would be so mad if I wasted a “bad” extinguisher and then had a fire. I know I Should buy a new one, but I’ve used multiple extinguishers after they entered the low pressure zone, And they all worked and had substantial powder expulsion. I’m not worried.
Except for the fact that the extinguisher will likely leak down its remaining pressure because of the remaining powder in the discharge path of the internal workings, chambers and spring loaded, o-ringed piston and seat, allowing a slow outflow of the dry nitrogen gas. A properly cleaned, refilled and recharged extinguisher is a happy extinguisher.
Ever seen the damage a fire causes? As someone who has far too many times I would never trust that to save me from the massive losses a fire causes. Extinguishers should be replaced as directed by the labeling, 6-10 years from the date on the bottom of the bottle. It's also good to occasionally take and shake them, you should feel the powder moving around and if not then tap lightly against a hard object to loosen it up. It will cake up over time and that can cause it not to work. Keep these ready and add some fire gone or other less damaging agents as well. When trying to knock down a fire there's no such thing as overkill...
@@alexkitner5356 it's not overkill if you only have 1 fire extinguisher. Keeping an old one as a spare makes more sense than throwing it away and then only having the new 1. Just bc you buy a new 1 doesn't mean you can't still keep the old one. Eventually every room in the house can have one. Then put one in the car and the shed and so on. They do more good than nothing but you're attitude comes off like everyone is always going to have access to a new one and no one ever saves money by just not buying one ever and takes their chances.
@@mikegrant8490 don't they lose pressure over time without even being used? That's what I think OP means. And regardless, they still have pressure for a while so despite getting a new one after using the old 1 you can still keep the used one as a spare until that pressure finally does leak the rest of the way out.
@@TheAnantaSesa it's not just a question of pressure. If there's a guage and it's red then it's a dry agent which is a powder that over time, particularly time just hanging on the wall, can cake up into a semi solid chunk. All the pressure in the world isn't going to help if the extinguishing agent can't come out.
Is it okay to keep an old one? Sure, I have some that are out of date and the safety margins built into that date don't mean that there's a rapid loss of function across the board but that it's when the likelihood of failure outgrows the acceptable margin be it 0% or 80%.
I also do some things that I would recommend for anyone, first of all I make a habit of shaking or turning the extinguishers upside down and letting the powder move around and not keep settling and compacting. I also buy new ones for the places that need them like garage, kitchen, shed, etc, when they expire. The old one is okay to try, but it's not okay to rely on it as the only rapid option and yes, the time lost using an old one that fails then getting another from some other location can be the difference between a fire you could extinguish to one you can't or that produces so much smoke you can't get back to it.
*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
"Dont throw out that old fire extinguisher" *throws out the fire extinguisher*
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”
"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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Them: *"don't throw out that old fire extinguisher"*
Them later: *"Throw out that old fire extinguisher"*
I thought I wasn't hearing things, yeah don't throw it out until I've finished the video then throw it into the bin. I naturally thought he was going to make something, what in a short video I hear you say, but it's normal with short videos they never have a end result anyway so no change there.
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.
I wonder how many brain cells I lost while listing to him talk
Reminds me of the time I was doing some diy work on my water pipes,
Using a plumbers torch and having the water turned off I decided to borrow an extinguisher that my mum had in her car. Managed to catch some debris on fire couldn’t blow it out so I grabbed the extinguisher for it to not work I had to resort into scooping water out the toilet bowl to put the fire out, turns out it had expired in 1993 😂
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?
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
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.
Dude just wasted a perfectly good fire extinguisher. 😂
@@ChallengingRiff and the workplace. 👍
The older type that uses the Plastic trigger handles were recalled and a few years ago I was sent new Metal handle type. They never wanted the return of ones I had and I still have those just in case and extra for camping equipment, any where needed, they are still full and have plenty of contents. If you have older plastic type call the recall number, you'll get New ones , but not sure if they are still doing this.
My extinguisher is about 60 years old has full pressure and will work.
Fire extinguisher tech here. That is a disposable extinguisher, it cannot be recharged. Also, like another reply mentions, those plastic handled kidde's had a recall a few years ago due to the stored pressure causing the handles to shatter and explode when someone attempts to use them. The company i work for refuses to insure that kind specifically
If they leak pressure like that and are disposable, this has to be done. But for the most part, the non-disposables, and as long as it was put together properly, a good extinguisher will last a lifetime. It could be refilled or, if unused, theyd top off the pressure and try to find where it leaked out from. I found one that hadnt been touched since '62 the other day, still full of agent and in the green for pressure
Trees- "Are we having another fire drill?!!!!"
"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
Rifle target was the first thing that I thought of.
Bro, you can take them to a Fire equipment supply company and have them recharged. I have to have 6 at work and take them and get them recertification/recharge for next to nothing.
A lot cheaper than a new one.......
As a general rule of thumb if the top handle of the fire extinguisher is plastic it is a one-time use.
@@leventsl Then they still probably have a better destination for the can itself than a landfil.
@@deldarel %100 but getting them recharged is not one of them. Emptying the contents and unscrewing the head and recycling the cylinder is about the best you can do with a cheap disposable.
What’s next to nothing tho? Most people would rather die in a fire than pay $100 for someone to come out and recharge their fire extinguishers
@@leventsl emptying what ever the contents are into the environment is ok as long as it gets to be melted down again?
“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.
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.
When I was in high school, I went to an overnight retreat. At the opening meeting, the retreat administrators said straight up, "each of your cabins contains a fire extinguisher. DO NOT set it off if there is no emergency. You will get sent home and be charged $500 for a new fire extinguisher." Late that night, the guys in my cabin were messing around and one of them managed to hit his head against the smoke alarm hardwired to the ceiling and set it off. The first thing my friend did was rip the fire extinguisher off the wall and start randomly blasting it all over the room. I got hit directly in the face, but thankfully held my breath. The administrators had mercy on my friend and didn't send him home, but I think his family still had to pay.
Good lord, where do they buy their extinguishers at? $500!?!? Got mine for $20 at Costco 😂😂
@@DawgzMom sounds like they tacked the usual $250+ deep cleaning/smoke cleaning fees on with the purchase of a new extinguisher lol
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
We Had two fire extinguishers that were old. I had my teen son and daughter both test it spraying inside a trash can. A great learning experience.
What do you learn?
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.
That is a high pressure tank with working valve. Throwing it away is a waste. They can be used to make really awesome air cannons. Or various other products
Also they are rechargeable so even just spraying it without putting out a fire is a waste.
Or just re-filled and used as a fire extinguisher they can be recharged hundreds of times!
So many things he could have done to really not throw it away! This video is ridiculous.
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.
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 :)
Damn good crucible you're throwing away
That's what I thought he would repurpose it for! Instead of throwing it away like he says not to do in the title.
That particular extinguisher is made out of a thin aluminum. If you want to make a crucible find an old steel CO2 extinguisher.
Ah, good catch.
I recently fought a vehicle fire at a country store minutes after they closed. The truck was burning from behind one of the headlights, but not on the battery side. After telling me he didn't have one, the store owner brought me two similar to yours. Each of them gave me about 5 seconds of spray. The tire started to catch fire after they went empty and dudes truck burned up.
This was a serious lesson on extinguisher maintenance. If they aren't charged, you're SOL. Better find water.
"You can tell this extinguisher is empty" *sprays out a gallon of foam*
To be fair I've used a full one and it usually sprays out faster and without as much clumping
Barely sifted out 2lbs of ABC dry chem. It's supposed to shoot out with enough force to keep you from needing to be directly on top of the fire, was well as giving it a chance to spread out and coat the fuel source. This one wasn't completely depressurized, but certainly bad enough that it should be removed from service before it leaked anymore
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Foam?
You can clearly see halfway into him spraying that the POWDER is barely coming out of the extinguisher.
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
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
That isn't actually a good thing I believe because it has pfas in it witch never decomposes and a lot of this can be bad (sutch as in places where firefighters test)
Yep, also many ABC powder have chems toxic to fish and other wild life.
Yeah common sense should tell you just because it's got one good thing in it doesn't mean it's going to be all good for a given task, especially if it's original purpose wasn't that.
Imprecise, there are various types of fire extinguisher with different fire retardants, depending on application, and the original video even neglects to mention the type he has ☹️
But he read it on the internet somewhere and probably spent AT LEAST 3 minutes researching, so it must be fantastic for the environment, right? Lol
@@StormcallR yeah. Upsetting how many likes there are. We all need to collectively read up on forever chemicals and eliminate them from our lives. We're running out of time.
“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.
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.
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...
Or you could have it refilled? 🤔
Some fire extinguishers are not refillable.
Not these ones, they are disposable
Or you could do five seconds of research before leaving a stupid and douchy comment 🤔
@@SilverCymbal I have this one, i refill it every year- why wouldn't it be refillable? Is si much cheaper to do
@@eljuaco428 those units say right on the label do not recharge but whatever u say
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 your fire extinguisher in the bin’
Last thing he does - throws it in the bin.
I shot mine. Pretty cool explosion.
Same. 30-06 FMJ
Same. Was the only rational thing to do i think
Best way and only way to empty the fire extinguishers
Same!
America moment
A lot of those can be refilled. In my hometown, the fire department used to do it for free.
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"
I used to work at a mine, we took expired cans and used them for training for regular staff. So they knew how to put out a fire,
wow a video showing me to empty something before throwing it into a trashbin, how genius
"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.
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
"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.
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
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.
Why the hell didn't you say recycle, instead of throwing it out.
There aren't any recycling arrows on a fire extinguisher
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
Empties and throws out a perfectly good fire extinguisher!
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@@LibertyCity04 Lmao someone noticed after like 3 years
"there is a ton of pressure in that think, we can se how much is coming out"
*POV its december 1st*
LMFAO
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
"Look how much pressure it had left!"
Me: then why tf are you wasting it?
This guy - "this thing has lost too much pressure"
Same guy 1 min and a bunch of video cuts of the extinguisher firing later -this thing has tonnes of pressure"
WELL WHICH IS IT!?
There's a build date stamped into bottom or on decal. After 10 years, plastic topped extinguishers, like this one, are to be removed from service. Metal topped can be refilled. The contents can be saved and put in baggies for chimney fires.
I had a big dude threaten to beat me up once so I walked over to the wall and grabbed one of those but it was bigger than that. I walked over to him and let it rip in his face .. he fell to the floor choking gurgling our the words "I have asthma I have asthma" I said "are we good?" He said yes, eventually got back up and the night went on fine.
Rofl you lucky that was before social justice america arrived or you would be in prison for attempted murder and he would be doing rounds on morning talk shows
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.
Yea "empty" lol you sound like you're from massachusetts
Maine?
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You can take an extinguisher like that and turn it into a flame thrower pretty easily
the fire departments around here used to recharge your extinguishers for free (if it was a compatible model).
Now, they no longer do that, and a private company does it for $40 / per extinguisher.
i just learned how to recharge mine with a compressor.
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.
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
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.
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 ♻️
I’ve breathed it in and it tasted absolutely terrible 0/10 do not recommend
I want every single second of my time back. What a massive waste of one minute that I'll never get back lmao
Or you can shoot it with a high power rifle, that’s what I do. They make for the best targets
Xactly
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.
I remember my neighbor moved after his father passed away help him clean out the house I got about seven industrial fire extinguishers they have the little aluminum eyelid on the back or you can hook it up to a wall, every single one is fully charged, and placed at strategic points in the house
Cartoons always depict a fire extinguishers as foamy but I always knows that they're very powdery
Depends on the type
Thank you for informing those that don’t know this. The level of ignorance in the world today is scary
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
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.
You can also use it for target practice. They're awesome to shoot