Dave wrote: > "You are probably about to find that cleaning up the fire extinguisher > Amen! I have had three experiences with fire extinguishers and all were messy. The last was when some vandals broke into my hangar and discharged an extinguisher into the interior of my airplane and another into the gas tanks of another airplane. The powder is extremely fine and I had to have all instruments taken apart and cleaned. Cleaning up the interior and particularly under the instrument panel was also a long job and in total the cost was over $800. In the other plane the tanks had to be removed, cleaned and flushed. That bill came to $1400. Both of my other experiences were on the road and both of them were engine fires in cars that had pulled of the road with smoke and flames coming out. The fires were snuffed out quick enough, one of the cars could be driven away, the other was left for a tow truck. My recommendation is: Don't buy the 20 buck fire extinguishers of the hardware store variety but get a Halon extinguisher! A regular extinguisher is murder on electrical and electronic components! A regular extinguisher is certainly better than none, but be prepared for a tedious and expensive clean up job. Halon is on the "endangered species" list but they are still available and legal. If you are not familiar with the use and versions of portable fire extinguishers the following link will take you to a good article, written by a pro and contains a number of tips that everybody should know. http://www.4x4road.com/tipsvf.html Roger [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]