On Sun, 15 Sep 2013 13:59:11 -0700 (PDT), Higgs Boson
wrote:



I take it to service center for annual check up. If needed they'll

recharge it. Local code requirement.

For a residence? Very few if any places require FE's for private
homes.

The smallest ones ones are not worth recharging.

Thanks everybody. I should do SOMETHING because it's hard to believe that a
FE literally DECADES old could still be good. But then what do I know?

I think my small Kidde ABC was 10 or 15 years old when I needed it.
Worked fine. Gauge had been in the green.

I took a pot off the stove and put it on a cloth pot holder. Later I
put it back on the stove. Fortunately I sit at the kitchen table
facing the sliding glass door. Looked in the window and eventually
realized I was watching flames. The pot holder had stuck to the pot
when I put the pot back on the stove. Wait. That's the one I
stomped out. Very small by the time the cloth hit the floor.

The Kidde was for a fire in the oven. Worked fine. 10 or 15 years
old. It would have been hard to test it without letting a lot out.

I'd buy a second one for the primary location and put this one in a
secondary location, but after that, I'd rely on the green gauge.



Also, you-all are right about one is not enuff. Tx!

Kidde Web site says if in green still OK, but it's really old. No Help available on Kidde site. No local service listed. Not helpful site.

Trying to find general FE service center only one listed.

What do you mean by "local code requirement"? Who has this? Fire Department? Or City?

HB