Fire disextinguisher.


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( petehix Board Sig:, Wed 1 Aug 2007, 22:06, archived)

Intinguisher?
Is it flammable or inflammable?
( The Hedgehog From Hell, Wed 1 Aug 2007, 22:09, archived)

Umm...
All three.
( petehix Board Sig:, Wed 1 Aug 2007, 22:16, archived)

hehehe!
in related news, i was a stewart at a thing on saturday and was perplexed at finding a spent co2 extinguisher tucked under a tree, turns out the stage crew had used the bloody thing to chill their beers. enterprising reckless bastards.
( god save the queen hardly ever original, Wed 1 Aug 2007, 22:09, archived)

Hahaha.
Reminds me of an oxygen cylinder story, which I started to type, but it's too long and rambling.
( The Hedgehog From Hell, Wed 1 Aug 2007, 22:13, archived)

a guy i work with was once topping up an oxygen bottle on a plane
and the rig exploded and blew his clothes off. turned out the pipe on the rig had been pressure tested in......oil
( Johno says the chances of anything coming from mars are a million to one But still they come on, Wed 1 Aug 2007, 22:17, archived)

sounds nasty
and far too scientific for me to understand why.
( god save the queen hardly ever original, Wed 1 Aug 2007, 22:19, archived)

pure oxygen + oil/grease = kaboom!
ive heard of oxygen masks popping when worn after eating bacon sarnies

_{haha, check out this utter wankiness from our very own government. who do they pay to make this shite}
( Johno says the chances of anything coming from mars are a million to one But still they come on, Wed 1 Aug 2007, 22:21, archived)

oh! that's handy to know
in that very useful but completely useless kind of knowledge way.
( god save the queen hardly ever original, Wed 1 Aug 2007, 22:24, archived)

OK then.
A few years ago I had to change an oxygen cylinder a baby was breathing through. Closed the valve on the cylinder, removed the flow regulator. The baby started getting a bit distressed, because it was finding it slightly harder to breathe.

A woman I was working was deeply moved by the baby's distress, and decided to speed the process up a bit. By opening the valve on the new cylinder, before the flow regulator was attached.

The resulting blast of pressurised air nearly deafened everyone, and nearly took her fucking head off. Mind you, that wouldn't have affected her brain power.
( The Hedgehog From Hell, Wed 1 Aug 2007, 22:23, archived)

she sounds quite dim

( Afinkawan, Wed 1 Aug 2007, 22:25, archived)

The real challenge
was trying to explain to her afterwards why what she had just done was actually pretty dangerous.
( The Hedgehog From Hell, Wed 1 Aug 2007, 22:28, archived)

did you know aviation oxygen is purer than medical oxygen?

( Johno says the chances of anything coming from mars are a million to one But still they come on, Wed 1 Aug 2007, 22:31, archived)

That's because the medical oxygen
has MRSA in it.

Pharmaceutical oxygen is even purer than either of those.
( Afinkawan, Wed 1 Aug 2007, 22:32, archived)

thats because the monkeys prefer it

( Johno says the chances of anything coming from mars are a million to one But still they come on, Wed 1 Aug 2007, 22:34, archived)

god bless you medical types
i feel safer now.
( god save the queen hardly ever original, Wed 1 Aug 2007, 22:27, archived)

haha!
Well aren't they ingenious little bastards :)
( petehix Board Sig:, Wed 1 Aug 2007, 22:16, archived)