So I got to put out a fire

[Rapscallion]

I had a bit of fun today. The picking machines use large, interchangeable batteries, and they have ables in them to feed the power to the machine. So far, so good.

One of the machines - at the back end of the day - stopped suddenly. Bit of surprise for the driver and all around, and then we realised there was smoke starting to come from the front of the machine. The cable had been trapped all day and worn through, and ...

I finally got to use a fire extinguisher for the right reasons!

Rapscallion

[Sheldonrs]

...I finally got to use a fire extinguisher for the right reasons!...

Rapscallion

Dare i ask what you have used it for before?

[Becks]

I finally got to use a fire extinguisher for the right reasons!

Is it as rewarding a feeling as using one for the wrong reasons?

[wagegoth]

Did you see the movie "Soul Food?" My younger son reenacted the scene for us. Good thing we keep a fire extinguisher in the kitchen.

[sms001]

Is it as rewarding a feeling as using one for the wrong reasons?

Going out on a limb here, but guessing Raps will feel as I did.

No. No it's not.

Although that awesome "whoooooooosh" sound is the same!

[edible_hat]

I once got paid to use a fire extinguisher. Repeatedly. For about four hours. It was fire safety training.

Unfortunately I'd parked my car downwind so it got covered in ABE powder.

[Boochan]

We got a memo to throw out some Fire Extinguishers that had been in stock a couple of years, because they were out of date. We have a bad history of causing a mess (we ruined one of those tabletop fountains (mothers day stock) within a week by putting all sorts of crap in it), and we've almost set fire to certain fittings screwing around with Contact Cleaner, Butane, or Compressed Air and combining it with lighters when we were bored.

We somehow resisted the temptation to play with the fire extinguishers.. hehe.

[Rapscallion]

Dare i ask what you have used it for before?

Oddly enough, nothing, but I learned long ago that phrasing things like the above is fun!

Rapscallion

[edible_hat]

Oddly enough, nothing, but I learned long ago that phrasing things like the above is fun!

Rapscallion

You and your so-called phrasing! Of course you can describe anything as a "so-called" whatever because it is called whatever it's called.

So, so-called Rapscallion, you used a so-called fire extinguisher to put out a so-called fire at your so-called job.

[Slytovhand]

I used a fire extinguisher once.. and for the right reasons....

too bad it was the wrong extinguisher...

and probably in really the wrong place to use such a wrong extinguisher....

There was a parade in the main street, and someone had put a cigarette but in a garbage can, and it started to burn.

I used the powder extinguisher... had masses of smoke coming from it.. and masses of powder too

I don't think I won any popularity contests that day....

[Tee]

Dare i ask what you have used it for before?

According to Mythbusters you can use one to quick-cool a 6-pack. :P

[Primer]

According to Mythbusters you can use one to quick-cool a 6-pack. :P

True. DH used to do that on Friday afternoons when he was in the Army working in the Motor Pool.

[Evil Queen]

If you only want to quick cool one can, get one of those little cannisters of canned air (like the ones you use to "clean" your computer keyboard) a can of soda and a plastic container with a lid (The prepackaged containers of lunchmeat in the little GLAD containers is perfect).

Poke a hole in the side of the plastic container big enough to fit the straw from the can-o-air into. Put the soda in the container, put the lid on and let a rip! The chemicals in the compressed air can will cool the soda down to an nice icy temperature in about 6 seconds.

[Rapscallion]

The rumour mill is now claiming that the guy driving the machine was driving so fast it set on fire, and that I stripped naked and threw msyelf onto the flames to put them out.

Rapscallion

[Evil Queen]

The rumour mill is now claiming that the guy driving the machine was driving so fast it set on fire, and that I stripped naked and threw msyelf onto the flames to put them out.

Rapscallion

But that would make your fuzzyness melt away!