Re: Foam suppression testing

[Robert L Bass <sales@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 17:54:51 -0500, "T. Lee" <tommy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Here is a link to a foam fire suppression test in hangar.
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> http://cellar.org/showthread.php?t=10491
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> You'd think some could find the off button a little quicker.

Some of you are old enough to remember when detergent was deliberately made to
maximize foam.  A few of you might also remember the anti-Vietnam war
demonstrations in Washington, DC.

Well, Washington has this lovely Bartholdi fountain in a park off Independence
Ave... and there was this huge, "economy" size box of detergent in the
supermarket... and then the idea just sort of came to someone that if a box of
detergent happened to errrm, fall into the fountain and....

It's truly amazing how much soap suds you can get from one huge box of
detergent.   :^)


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Robert L Bass

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