Ikea fire extinguishers

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See that the Lidl ones are coming up again. £6.35 for 1Kg from 23 Feb



Lidl Fire Extinguisher

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[Clyde_Wanderer]

I have an oldish fire blanket and wondered could I cut it in strips and wrap it around the eber exaust pipe in a couple of places where it gets a little close (3") to the underside of the coaming this would be a secondry insulation over the silicone fibre Eber insulation.
Dont want to have to buy 50mm APK duct to fit over it
Would it handle the heat?
C_W

[aquaplane]

Well if you are thinking of chopping up your fire blanket, Lidl have some new ones in now, I can't remember the price but 6 to 8 quid wouldn't be far off, I couldn't think of where to put one or I would have one now.

I have my eye on them extinguishers going on sale on the 23st too, the ones on Chiron went out of date last year and I prefer to know the history of safety gear.

[sahona]

Thanks for the idea Eamonn. I've got a wrapped exhaust which is deteriorating a bit. The spare fire blanket will be the very chappie to fix it.

[Clyde_Wanderer]

Thanks for the idea Eamonn. I've got a wrapped exhaust which is deteriorating a bit. The spare fire blanket will be the very chappie to fix it.

Thanks for the reassurance Bill, 1 less fire blanket clogging up my garage.
Bill if the original insulation is dissentagrating badly you might need something heavier than fire blanket, how about a welders/plumbers matt which is similar but considerably thicker, I need mine or it would be getting chopped up.
Do/did you have the black APK ducting (same as the heat transfer duct) on your exaust, or was it just the white fibre stuff?
I find the exaust very very close to the fuel pipe between pump and heater so am going to use some of the FB here too.
Mind use copper wire to bind it in place, Not cable ties or tape.
I just pulled the earth core out of 1.5mm twin&earth to use as a binder/tier.

[sahona]

This is the engine exhaust. It's a straight-through flexible steel hose wrapped in something to stop you burning bodyparts while fumbling. The water gets added a lot further away..
I assume it's asbestos based, so it's probably better covered up anyway.

[Clyde_Wanderer]

This is the engine exhaust. It's a straight-through flexible steel hose wrapped in something to stop you burning bodyparts while fumbling. The water gets added a lot further away..
I assume it's asbestos based, so it's probably better covered up anyway.

Yeh Bill you dont want any white mice scurrying out from the bilges.

[DaveS]

Thanks for the idea Eamonn. I've got a wrapped exhaust which is deteriorating a bit. The spare fire blanket will be the very chappie to fix it.

Well, I would have thought so too, but a few months ago I helped lag a generator exhaust pipe with strips of fire blanket. Within a few minutes they'd charred to a deep brown colour - not very reassuring!

[sahona]

OK, thanks Dave.
job's not done yet, but it would be covering the existing thermally effective layer.
Really just to protect it and contain any nasty asbos.
Got to locate the spare blanket first!

[DaveS]

If you don't mind it looking a bit brown, I can get you the bits we tried to use on the bare generator exhaust. It'll have to wait until my next trip to Westray, though.

[sahona]

Thanks for that Dave. Just drop it off in Troon by the end of the week!

[Clyde_Wanderer]

Maybe you would be better getting a couple, or one bigger welders or plumbers soldering matt which is heavier, I tried burning a hole through one with the blow torch and failed to do so, although it did go brown, in fact it glowed like a wick, but dident actually burn, and that's a lot of heat.
I reckon you could also use a welders leather apron.

[sahona]

I had a welder's leather apron - well actually a Cathode-ray-tube handlers apron, cut it up to make all sorts of things from pump washers to lovely neat rope protectors. Sadly all gone now and nothing to show for it on this boat.
Could do with some more to protect the handrail varnish.