"Tim Streater" wrote in message
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In article ,
"Mr Pounder" wrote:

"Andy Dingley" wrote in message
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On Dec 14, 11:17 pm, "ARWadsworth"
wrote:

I have never been on a training day to get a nice signed off piece of
paper
to say that I am allowed to use an extinguisher.

You should do, they're a right laugh. If I was organising one I used
to use the (nearby) oilrig training school, as they had a particularly
generous attitude to how big a training fire needed to be, and if you
were lucky they even let us ride the lifeboat drop (swapped that for
letting some of them loose in our cars on a race track day).


I really must do the video format conversion and YouTube our DIY
safety video entitled "Two idiots and a bucket of magnesium turnings
demonstrate why you shouldn't use a hosepipe to (try to) extinguish
it".

I am George Goble and I claim my T1 of bandwidth.

Tell me, which extinguisher did you use to extinguish a magnesium fire?

I'm guessing, but I should think sand or dry powder or CO2.

--
Tim

"That excessive bail ought not to be required, nor excessive fines
imposed,
nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted" -- Bill of Rights 1689

Monnex.
It is powder but would be better than ABC dry powder.

Mr Pounder