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[Janet Kirk]

At 10:52 AM 3/12/2010, John Birch wrote:
>Out first week with Sunstone back in 92 the whole stove top caught fire 
>due to a leaky valve o ring.
>
>This wasn't one of your standard alcohol fires with a low blue almost 
>invisible flame - the flames were about 6 inches to a foot. A wet towel 
>solved the problem in about 10 seconds.
>
>Letting a fire extinguisher off would have meant a month of cleaning.


Modern fire extinguishers - Purple K - are effective, but leave a terrible 
residue. I keep aboard, and in the home kitchen, now banned for 
environmental reasons, Halon extinguishers which are marvelous and leave no 
residue. The Purple K ones are always there as a backup and to satisfy the 
Coast Guard on inspection. A CO2 bottle is also fine. Tough to find either 
nowadays, though. I understand there is a newer, non-certified non-residue 
type which is not A-B-C rated, but I don't know any detaile.

The typical small cooking fire can be extinguished with Halon or CO2; if 
the fire is bigger, you don't worry about the residue, so use the Purple K 
backup. I understand

Bob Kirk
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