Fire Grenades

[Joseph Hagarty]

Fire Grenades...........

[rcooke]

Please note these usually contain Carbon tetrachloride
It is extremely dangerous and deadly .
We used to use this to clean copper and had three electricians
die from it in a man hole in a very short period of time .


http://ptcl.chem.ox.ac.uk/MSDS/CA/ca...achloride.html http://www.dhfs.state.wi.us/eh/ChemFS/fs/carbontet.htm

Roy Cooke

[Joseph Hagarty]

http://www.thegavel.net/grenade.html

[Marcel R. Cyr]

Remember those when I was a kid, they were visible in my Fathers garage, thank God we never had to use them.

Wonder where all the safety warnings were back then on this product?

Marcel

[rcooke]

Originally Posted by mcyr

Remember those when I was a kid, they were visible in my Fathers garage, thank God we never had to use them.

Wonder where all the safety warnings were back then on this product?

Marcel

I think they worked great on a fire only they now gave of an different gas not even more toxic the Carbon Tet.
I used to use it a lot and they also used it in commercial degrease rs a warm tank turned it into a vapor and it had cold pipes around the top to keep to the gas in the tank .
Worked great removed all traces of grease and dirt like wow .
It was also used in dry cleaning a wonder product that even went through the skin .
Gee I wonder is that what is wrong with Meeeeeeeeeee??????

Roy Cooke

[jking2]

The worst part about carbon tetrachloride as a fire extinguishant is that it produces phosgene gas when heated. That is what the Germans used in WWI against allied troops.

[Joseph Kormos]

So would this then be considered a hazardous materials situation, would you inform the local fire department immediately?

[Chris D. Duphily]

Originally Posted by jking2

The worst part about carbon tetrachloride as a fire extinguishant is that it produces phosgene gas when heated. That is what the Germans used in WWI against allied troops.

AKA Mustard Gas

HCFC Refrigerant's like R-22 are also known to produce Phosgenes Gas when exposed to a heat source. It really burns the hell out of your lungs

[Joseph Hagarty]

Another recent example.....

[Marcel R. Cyr]

Joe;

Hard to believe they are still around.
How old was that building?

Marcel

[Kenneth Lott]

I used to work at a shop that used it to clean out contaminated auto A/C systems, it did a great job. They had a pharmacist who got it for them after it was banned.

[Brian A. MacNeish]

Originally Posted by mcyr

Joe;

Hard to believe they are still around.
How old was that building?

Marcel

haven't seen one of these since I was youngster.....about 45 years ago.

[Joseph Hagarty]

Home was a circa 1920 (Disclosed Age).

It is pretty common to find these within the older homes of this area.

[Marcel R. Cyr]

Originally Posted by Brian A. MacNeish

haven't seen one of these since I was youngster.....about 45 years ago.

Brian, now that is old.

Marcel

[Joseph Hagarty]

And another from yesterdays inspection.... Original portion of the home over 150 years.....