Every workshop is equipped with fire extinguishers. They are an important tool to quench, or at least suppress, a blaze to protect both people and property, as well as being an insurance-stipulated essential.
While they have the ability to save lives, regular extinguishers have several drawbacks. They are relatively large and heavy, making them awkward to store and use. They also create a thorough mess as they spray water or foam over anything within range at a prodigious rate. Dousing even a small conflagration can result in a major clean-up operation.
So, RS Workshop Equipment is now selling the Fire Safety Stick – a fire extinguishing device which is compact and lightweight, and leaves no residue after being used as it uses a tested and proven technology, created for the space programme, that fights fires on the molecular level, by chemically interrupting the chain of combustion.
It works on wood, petrol, plastics, butane and methane, electrical fires and cooking oils and, unlike traditional extinguishers, can be left in an enclosed area to continue to suppress a fire without supervision. Available as 50 or 100 second discharge units, they have a 15 year shelf life and need no servicing. SRPs are £74.50 and £104.40 respectively.
RS Workshop Equipment;
01832 741007;
www.rsworkshopequipment.co.uk