Fire extinguisher and life hammer location
Discussion
HI folks
I thought it was about time I fitted my fire extinguisher and life hammer.
Whereabouts have people mounted them. I am minded to put the extiguisher in the drivers footwell for instant access but if anyone has any better ideas (and pictures) I would be interested to hear them.
Cheers
Ed
I thought it was about time I fitted my fire extinguisher and life hammer.
Whereabouts have people mounted them. I am minded to put the extiguisher in the drivers footwell for instant access but if anyone has any better ideas (and pictures) I would be interested to hear them.
Cheers
Ed
Given the type of situation that you may require you to use these items, I would suggest keeping them as near to your balls as possible 
Seriously though, my extinguisher is fitted just in front of drivers seat with metal straps. Life hammer holder pinned to carpet of transmission tunnel. Both within easy reach & not going anywhere in worst case scenario!
Seriously though, my extinguisher is fitted just in front of drivers seat with metal straps. Life hammer holder pinned to carpet of transmission tunnel. Both within easy reach & not going anywhere in worst case scenario!
Ahhhh, there's more to extinguishers than you may think?
I can't recomend enough a 1.75 AFFF (2.4 AFFF if you have the space/cash) mounted below the passenger thighs as a good initial knock down in a fuel fire. The reason why I say below the passenger is as the driver has pedals etc by there feet so having it below the drivers thighs is minimulising the passenger cell area to extricate a casualty from the vehicle should you bin it. Also worth recomending bolting it in with 8mm bolts, as per MSA blue book regs, it's a heavy piece of kit that'll fly everywhere in a crash. If you do have a fuel fire AFFF is designed to be "floated" onto the fire from above, not aimed at it spraying the fuel everywhere.
A basic Halfords dry powder is a pretty good bet too, it can be used in an electrical fire without damaging wiring (although it will still make a mess) and dry powder is great at putting out a fire, it just doesn't have any cooling properties so re-ignition my occur unless it's backed up with water or foam soon after. The first thing I do when approaching an RTC (Road Traffic Collision) is place a Dry powder (9 litre though) to the front on the car.
An interesting point to bear in mind is only 2.39% of RTC's involve fire (Source:- LM Watson, RTC Trapped Publication) so a car fire is rare occurence now with modern cars, that said I have extinguishers in every vehicle I own and Cerberas don't have the best history when it comes to fires!
To summerise it's all down to cash, if you're gonna compete then obviously you've gotta stick to the regs however in a road car go for small dry powder first, then hand held AFFF and then a plumbed in system. The advantage to the hand held AFFF is you can obviously aim it at the fire whereas a plumbed in system is fairly restrcted to engine bay only. I don't need to remind you all about not fully lifting the bonnet if there's smoke and flooding the engine bay with nice fresh oxygen do I?
http://www.demon-tweaks.co.uk/produc...code=OMPCAB...
The Life Hammers are also good, You don't realise how hard glass can sometimes be to break,personally I recomend a glass punch though as it'll work underwater or in a confined space whereas the hammer wont, but the hammer does come with seat belt cutters which are also good.
http://www.spservices.co.uk/product_info.php/produ...
The other option is don't crash?
Cheers,
Andy
I can't recomend enough a 1.75 AFFF (2.4 AFFF if you have the space/cash) mounted below the passenger thighs as a good initial knock down in a fuel fire. The reason why I say below the passenger is as the driver has pedals etc by there feet so having it below the drivers thighs is minimulising the passenger cell area to extricate a casualty from the vehicle should you bin it. Also worth recomending bolting it in with 8mm bolts, as per MSA blue book regs, it's a heavy piece of kit that'll fly everywhere in a crash. If you do have a fuel fire AFFF is designed to be "floated" onto the fire from above, not aimed at it spraying the fuel everywhere.
A basic Halfords dry powder is a pretty good bet too, it can be used in an electrical fire without damaging wiring (although it will still make a mess) and dry powder is great at putting out a fire, it just doesn't have any cooling properties so re-ignition my occur unless it's backed up with water or foam soon after. The first thing I do when approaching an RTC (Road Traffic Collision) is place a Dry powder (9 litre though) to the front on the car.
An interesting point to bear in mind is only 2.39% of RTC's involve fire (Source:- LM Watson, RTC Trapped Publication) so a car fire is rare occurence now with modern cars, that said I have extinguishers in every vehicle I own and Cerberas don't have the best history when it comes to fires!
To summerise it's all down to cash, if you're gonna compete then obviously you've gotta stick to the regs however in a road car go for small dry powder first, then hand held AFFF and then a plumbed in system. The advantage to the hand held AFFF is you can obviously aim it at the fire whereas a plumbed in system is fairly restrcted to engine bay only. I don't need to remind you all about not fully lifting the bonnet if there's smoke and flooding the engine bay with nice fresh oxygen do I?
http://www.demon-tweaks.co.uk/produc...code=OMPCAB...
The Life Hammers are also good, You don't realise how hard glass can sometimes be to break,personally I recomend a glass punch though as it'll work underwater or in a confined space whereas the hammer wont, but the hammer does come with seat belt cutters which are also good.
http://www.spservices.co.uk/product_info.php/produ...
The other option is don't crash?
Cheers,
Andy
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