Fire Suppression System
This is Michbill, In January 2015, while going to FL on I-75, we saw two MH's totaled by, what I later learned from a newspaper report were, eng. fires. This summer in one of the motor home mag's I ...
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Sprink-Fitter wrote:Every Navy ship has an AFFF system and we all had to learn how to operate it. No one ever mentioned corrosive nature of the stuff. The ships I served on had two 50 gallon of so bronze tanks that stored the concentrate and all the piping was bronze. It's a really, and I mean really concentrated soap solution that get's mixed with water to make foam. Probably won't need much more than a few ounces along with a few gallons of water fill an engine bay with foam. Very effective on petroleum fires and will leave the engine bay spotless.
Isn't AFFF very corrosive to steel? If I remember correctly we had to flush all the lines with a lot of water when we ran it through them.
The stuff is biodegradable and has a very low toxicity. I would expect corrosive effects would be minimal.
