Fire Extinguisher Made From Pressurized Water Tank

Fire Extinguisher Made From Pressurized Water Tank CLEANING EQUIPMENT Cleaning Equipment 18-6-8 After watching his round baler bum up because he didn't have any way to put out the flames, Adair Romsell, Paradise Hill, Sask., decided to turn an old 10-gal. pressurized water tank into a portable fire extinguisher. He keeps it on a steel bracket that he mounted on the side of his tractor. "It's always there if I ever need it," says Romsell. The pressurized tank has an air valve on top and a rubber diaphragm inside at the bottom. The diaphragm was designed to keep water pressure separate from air pressure. However, it had a hole in it so the tank didn't work properly. Romsell inserted a 3/4-in. dia. piece of steel pipe in one end of the tank, then screwed a threaded valve onto the pipe to hook to a 15-ft. length of garden hose. T o use the fire extinguisher, he opens the air valve and hooks the hose up to a water tap to fill the tank. He then shuts off the valve, hooks up an air compressor to it, and pumps in 80 lbs. of air (the tank is designed to handle up to 120 lbs.). To use it all I do is grab the tank and open the valve on the hose, which is on the tank all the time," says Romsell. "I use a tire gauge to check the air pressure every day. I'm thinking of mounting an air pressure gauge right on the tank that I could see from the tractor cab. I first set it up last year but I never had to use it. At the end of the season I used it to wash off my baler. This home-built extinguisher saved me a lot of money since a commercial 10-gal.fire extinguisher equipped with an electric pump powered by the tractor battery sells for $450." Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Adair Romsell, Box 222, Paradise Hill, Sask., Canada SOM 2G0 (ph 306 344-4402).

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