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Subject:Fire Extinguisher: New, bigger,....better?
From:Blaine Bachman
Date:Thu, 28 May 1998 16:07:50 EDT

I asked a question several weeks ago looking for a suitable, yet not buried,
location for a ?A-10BC Extinguisher in my '91 Westfalia (absolutely cannot
type that other word).

Problem is that I installed a "Theater Seat" behind the passenger front seat
which meant moving the little extinguisher (not to mention that I once emptied
a 5BC extinguisher on a Chevy ElCamino (not mine!) antifreeze fire with
virtually no effect).

Anyway, I bought the Kidde bracket (with securing strap/latch) and mounted it
horizontal on the "floor" of the below-sink cabinet - did a fire drill and
found it fairly easy to deploy.

Oh, took the original extinguisher and mounted it, as someone suggested,
horizontally on the driver's seat base (where the carpet covers the front) -
pretty much out of the way, and easy to grab (I was gonna give an illustration
here of what might catch on fire, but better not to tempt the fates).

-Blaine

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