Rusting Fire Extinguishers

[brucehawsker]

I have a fire extinguisher located in a recess in the rear of the rear pods - close to the engine.

I realised that I had a trail of rust after being out on Saturday across the deck to the bilge.

Upon checking, the base of both fire extinguishers and their brackets were very rusty.

Is this a normal problem? Should I ignore it? Won't eventually the fire extinguisher rust through?

[jwalker]

Yes.
No.
Yes.

[quinquarimarine]

Originally Posted by jwalker

Yes.
No.
Yes.

Well no, but no but yes but no...( too much little britain JW) after a lot of searching over the years.

ANAF make an extingusher that has an ali shell and the brackets are plastic. No rust nor probs and 100%, all the EN3

The bad news is that they are made in France.

For retail contact Plastimo.

Cheers

John
www.quinquari.co.uk

[Wayne Rogers]

Spray mine with WD40 never had one go rusty.

[Tim M]

Mines rusty as a very rust thing and it's only a year old. Was out last week and the bracket split. It's held together with cable ties now.

[Scary Des]

Look at this might be Just what you need Des

[keytouch]

Or even one of these

[geoff]

We had a similar problem so I replaced it with aluminium one.
We then let off the old one to find that it barely had enough power to put out a candle, let alone an engine fire!