Kidde Fire Extinguisher Recall Do you have one in your RV?

Gdetrailer wrote:

Cummins12V98 wrote:
When extinguishers tag is outdated guess what they do to the extinguisher "IF" the gauge is in the green? They turn it upside down tap it with a rubber mallet and add a new tag. Bingo!

Umm.. NO. Not "always" the case.

Good quality vendors have a complete MOBILE BOX TRUCK in which they will discharge, remove valve assembly, rebuild the valve assembly then refill.

They will also check the dates and if the date is too old they will send the unit out to a outside shop which can hydro test the unit and re-certify for use.

My DW works in a refinery so she does know a few things about this since she also pays the bills for the vendor along with the fact that she has to participate in safety drills and such ..

Even got a great deal on a 10 lb new reload-able extinguisher :B we should have bought a few more at the price she got since her Company has never made that offer again :M

We can even take our unit back to her Company to have it recertified and reloaded when needed and when the vendor comes in to check the plants units.

My company, I can tell you this, all extinguishers that are found out of date ARE REMOVED from the plant and LOANER UNITS are used as temporary replacements until the vendor returns a couple of weeks later. I highly doubt they are simply tapping the units with a rubber hammer and retagging..

I would suspect any good quality extinguisher service company would NEVER be willing to RISK their business on shady practices as you have implied they do.

I should not have said outdated. When a company annually services the extinguishers at a commercial business that is what they do.