20 Year Old Kidde Fire Extinguisher Reads Green Good

Chief RA · November 26, 2012 two,315 Catalina 250 Bodega Bay CA

Greenish should exist skilful. Main

Capt jgw

On inspected vessels they take to exist pressure tested at 12 years, so that's a good interval. I don't know if in that location is a required replacement engagement for pleasure craft.
If they're the dry chemic type, the pulverisation can clump in the lesser. Part of the monthly inspection is to turn them upside down and give them a skilful whack with a rubber mallet to break upwards the clumps. After that you should be able to experience the pulverization falling from one cease to the other as yous turn the bottle end for stop.

centerline · Mar 20, 2012 3,983 Cal 34-III, MacGregor 25 Salem, Oregon

Is in that location some mode to know when to replace the on lath fire extinguishers? All mine however prove in the "light-green" on the force per unit area gauge, but is in that location a time limit I should consider too? I don't see whatsoever expiration date.
Thx. Bob.

No expiration date on almost burn down extinguishers... there are laws for commercial and industrial use that say they demand to be annually inspected, but nada regarding private/consumer use.

In that location was a recommendation in years gone past that the dry extinguishers be turned upside downward and shaken/bumped to unsettle the pulverisation, but that recommendation has been rescinded... and so simply await at it and if its still in the greenish, which is a force per unit area indicator, mark the inspection date in your log book and cruise on...

Davidasailor26 · May 17, 2004 3,620 Beneteau Oceanis 37 LE Havre de Grace

If they're the dry chemical type, the pulverisation can clump in the bottom. Part of the monthly inspection is to turn them upside down and give them a skillful whack with a prophylactic mallet to suspension up the clumps. After that you should be able to experience the powder falling from ane end to the other as y'all turn the canteen end for end.

I had read that someplace and started doing it, but then I read this:
http://coastguardaux.com/f9_11/FireExtinguishers.pdf

Mulf · Dec 2, 2003 400 Hunter 410 Chester, MD (Kent Island)

On inspected vessels they have to exist pressure tested at 12 years, and so that's a good interval. I don't know if there is a required replacement engagement for pleasure craft.

Does anyone have any information on the 12 years statement higher up, regarding pleasure vessels? I had my VSE recently and the inspector said he idea he heard that 12 years onetime is time to supersede, but he did non tell me I had to replace my three 12 year old extinguishers.

woodster · Sep 15, 2009 6,242 S2 9.2a Fairhope Al

Does anyone have whatsoever data on the 12 years statement above, regarding pleasure vessels? I had my VSE recently and the inspector said he thought he heard that 12 years old is time to supplant, but he did not tell me I had to replace my three 12 year sometime extinguishers.

did he know they were 12 years old if he did he was telling you lot that if he didn't he was telling you when they are 12 years old you need to replace them is the way i take information technology

Rich Stidger

One of our members is the owner of a fire extinguisher inspection business and he told me that the proper technique to determine if a dry chemic extinguisher is OK is to starting time bank check that the gauge is in the green surface area. Then, holding the extinguisher in the normal upright position, strike the bottom with your open palm. Y'all should be able to feel the contents quiver like jello inside with the hand that is holding the unit. It is not necessary to shake the extinguisher to "loosen" the contents. As long as these two checks - pressure and "jello experience" pass, you can keep to use the unit. Historic period is non a pregnant factor.

Capt jgw · February 8, 2014 1,300 Columbia 36 Muskegon

The 12 yr pressure exam is required on commercial vessels, and I believe it's an OSHA or NFPA requirement for commercial buildings likewise. No such requirement for pleasance craft that I know of. IMO, of the regulators are concerned with extinguishers being "too old" in the commercial earth, that'southward good guidance for the private world too, although not required.
Legally, as long equally the gauge is on the green, paint'south intact with no visible corrosion, and the nozzle is clear, you're adept.

And we do yet give ours a whack, the CG inspectors take never told is to terminate doing that.

Paul Mermelstein · Oct 3, 2008 314 Beneteau 393 Chesapeake Bay

I am a certified Vessel Safety Examiner, and we formerly did the shake and whack routine. But guidance has since rescinded that recommendation. Nosotros no longer have that approach. And as far equally I know, there are no regulations for historic period-based replacement for pleasure craft.

woodster · Jun 21, 2015

There should exist a engagement of manufacture on the bottle. Some take information technology nicely stamped, others take a date on the lesser (ie. 09). NFPA ten is the code but you lot have to buy the book like all the lawyers do. However the USCG has the following: http://www.uscg.mil/hq/cg5/cg5214/docs/Portable Fire Extinguisher Inspection and Maintenance FAQ.pdf
This seems more sensible than reading the CFR's.

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Roadking Larry · Mar 30, 2013 684 Allied Seawind MK II 32' Oologah Lake, Oklahoma

For pleasure boaters the expense of a couple of dry chem extinguishers isn't that much.

When I bought my first boat a couple of years ago the Kidde dry chem extinguisher had "94" stamped on the bottom, same year as the boat, the gauge was showing green. I bought a pair of new ones before I put the boat in the water the first fourth dimension and when I took the old 1 off the boat I had managed to pull the safety pivot out and managed to crash-land the handle on the companion way. All I got was a tiny little "poof" of powder, not fifty-fifty enough to require whatever cleaning, the approximate was still showing light-green but nothing would come out of the nozzle.
There are very few things in the world that can make a fellow pucker up worse than a fire extinguisher that just goes pffft when y'all really, actually need it to piece of work.
A pair of the Kidde B-C rated units can be had for under $l. A new fix every four-5 years just isn't that big a bargain, the darn things aren't collectable anyway.

Capt jgw · February 8, 2014 1,300 Columbia 36 Muskegon

And that's why the minimum carriage requirement is merely a starting indicate. I'm required to have 2 onboard, last count I had six.

Ron20324 · January 22, 2008 8,050 Beneteau 323 Annapolis MD

My sailing club (Singles on Sailboats) has an annual issue to shoot expired flares and fire extinguishers. Nosotros have come to notice that whatsoever extinguisher with the guage in the scarlet is pretty much a guarantee that the unit is bad, but too that one in the green does not guarantee that the unit is Skillful.

Kingjim91 · Jul 6, 2013 182 Catalina 30TR, Diminutive four 2480 Milwaukee

I received a citation during an inspection for out of date extinguishers. Mine had no date code, and so they were older than the constabulary that requires a date code and a notation virtually replacing them after 12 years. I was glad to know this. I would never want to have a burn and only go a poof from the extinguishers. Investing $50 in boat condom every 12 years works out to be pretty inexpensive peace of listen.

Gunni · Mar 16, 2010 v,937 Beneteau 411 Oceanis Annapolis

Not C-rated. Electrical. Like arcing high amperage DC voltage.

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