Another SOB disaster (fire)

[Rob Robinson]

Terry my manual says "This red light with the word FIRE will come on when
signaled by over temperature sensors in the engine compartment."

On 14/07/07, Terry Neal wrote:
>
> Like the idea of Halon back there Rob. You should have a mostly
> enclosed area (airtight) for Halon to be real effective as it removes
> most of the O2 from the atmosphere to kill a fire. Do you have any info
> on the alarm itself? Heat activated or smoke or both. My DDA would
> probably set it off every time I started it if it triggered by smoke!
>
> Terry Neal
> Bozeman, MT
> 82PT40 6V92TA
> 74FC34 6V53T
>
> Rob Robinson wrote:
>
> > My bird has an engine compartment fire alarm and previous owner put a
> > Halon
> > extinguisher on board. I added, two ten pound Kidde foam and dry chem. I
> > think a fitted Halon system in the engine compartment would be the
> answer.
> >
> > On 14/07/07, Terry Neal
> > 40mountainrovers.com>> wrote:
> > >
> > > Gee Don,
> > >
> > > Those folks are real lucky to be alive. I saw a similar fire a couple
> > > of weeks ago on I90. Was going home to Bozeman in the evening & a
> > > church group bus (I think it was an MCI 9) caught fire in the rear
> > > engine compartment. Everyone got out ok but the bus basically just
> > > melted into the pavement on the Interstate. Fire dept. trucks tried to
> > > put it out with foam but it was too far gone by the time they got
> there.
> > >
> > > Makes a person want to think about some sort of heat alarm system for
> > > the back end? Possibly along with a Halon type extinguisher system?
> > > Maybe include a camera in that compartment too? By the time you get
> one
> > > of these stopped, it's probably going to be too late to do much with
> the
> > > small extinguishers most of us carry anyway.
> > >
> > > Thanks for sharing this with the group.
> > >
> > > Terry Neal
> > > Bozeman, MT
> > > 82PT40 6V92TA
> > > 74FC34 6V53T
> > >
> > > Don Bradner wrote:
> > >
> > > > One of the Motosat dealers who is a long-time member of my
> > > > (DatastormUsers.com) forums lost a 42-foot Safari Panther to fire
> > > > yesterday. We haven't heard from him yet, but this is a link to the
> > > > story: http://www.katu.com/news/local/8496952.html
> > <http://www.katu.com/news/local/8496952.html>
> > > > <http://www.katu.com/news/local/8496952.html
> > <http://www.katu.com/news/local/8496952.html>>
> > > >
> > > > Don Bradner
> > > > 90 PT40 "Blue Thunder"
> > > > Eureka, CA
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
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> > >
> >
> > --
> > Rob, Sue & Merlin Robinson
> > 94 WLWB
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Rob, Sue & Merlin Robinson
94 WLWB


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