fire extenguisher recharge

[jhirsh5280]

I always thought you could take them a to a local fire station and get them recharged.

[Jer]

I always thought you could take them a to a local fire station and get them recharged.

I thought so too. I guess they don't do that anymore. I took one to our local Fire Dept this summer and was informed they no longer do it even on their own. He gave me the phone number of an outfit that does theirs and is able to do others but the cost was prohibitive. It was about the same price to just buy a new one. Pretty lame IMO and not only are we stuck having to pay for it but it sounds like our tax dollars are now paying this same company to do something that our firefighters did for themselves for decades.

[Rabid]

I thought so too. I guess they don't do that anymore. I took one to our local Fire Dept this summer and was informed they no longer do it even on their own. He gave me the phone number of an outfit that does theirs and is able to do others but the cost was prohibitive. It was about the same price to just buy a new one. Pretty lame IMO and not only are we stuck having to pay for it but it sounds like our tax dollars are now paying this same company to do something that our firefighters did for themselves for decades.

The FD did exchanges but did not recharge extinguishers themselves. Do you think the gov could really spend their money well enough to do it cheaper then a private company? Let me see if i can find the guy that re-hydrostated a few HPA tanks for me. Not only did he do all of Denver FD's stuff but he was really cheap if paid in cash.

[buckshotbarlow]

I thought so too. I guess they don't do that anymore. I took one to our local Fire Dept this summer and was informed they no longer do it even on their own. He gave me the phone number of an outfit that does theirs and is able to do others but the cost was prohibitive. It was about the same price to just buy a new one. Pretty lame IMO and not only are we stuck having to pay for it but it sounds like our tax dollars are now paying this same company to do something that our firefighters did for themselves for decades.

My neighbor who works at southwest metro told me the same thing, cheaper to buy a new one then to get it recharged...he's a liberal ass LT from kalifornia, and i don't agree with him and on hardly anything, but this is his area of expertise...