At 10:11 PM 7/23/01, Petro wrote:
The bottle is a little smaller than a 15 lb bottle, of course the 15 lb's refers to the weight of the bottle itself, it is closer to 50 lbs if it is fully charged with carbon dioxide (which we have no way to know whether it it was charged or what it was (once?) charged with).
Well, memory may be playing tricks on me, but from what I remember from my fire fighting training in the Marine Corps, 15 pounds was the weight of the agent.
I spoke of a standard 15 lb CO2 bottle, fully charged with nozzle and horn they weigh 49.5 lbs in the US Navy, if you are trying to remember those same bottles then you are remembering incorrectly. The bottle was about the same diameter but shorter in height, so maybe PKP but I don't think the civilian community has a true equivalent to that. PKP bottles have 18 lbs of agent.
A 50 pound bottle would really defeat the purpose of a portable fire extinguisher.
Tell it to the numbskull who designed the FP-180. That number is supposed to represent the # of gallons per minute the device will flow, but is often jokingly associated with the weight of the "portable" piece of firefighting gear. Finally, the navy dispensed with them, outside of a few fixed-type installations where there was no pretense of "portability."
There are many people who would have trouble holding the bottle in one had and pointing the nozzle with the other.
Such people are weeded out in boot camp. There are many people who cannot pat their head and rub their tummy while chewing bubblegum, they are weeded out in boot camp too. Many of them cannot even look where they are walking, and so we find them walking in front of traffic and all manner of places they should not be.
Even a 35 pound (25 pounds agent, 10 pounds bottle) bottle is hard to manage at times.
No shit. So remember it being heavier, it was when fully charged.
Depending on the construction of the container you could add another 5 to 10 pounds for the bottle etc.
15 lbs bottle, 50 lbs total weight including agent. I'll check out the security classification on the PMS card and if it's unrestricted, scan one and post the url after I upload it. Reese