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expired flare testing
On 5 Jul 2004 08:39:17 -0700, (Parallax) wrote:
Yesterday, I fired 4 expired "Orion" 12 guage flares. All four fired
but only one worked right. Results
expiration year results
1990 Worked correctly
1995 Fired but failed to ignite flare
1998 Fired and flare ignited but only went to 50'
altitude
1998 Fired but flare failed to ignite
2 Current flares: Fired and worked correctly.
Two years ago, on a very rainy New Yrs, I fired a bunch of expired
flares and all fired. However, the rain was so intense that I was
unable to determine if the flares ignited.
This test tells me that although old flares ussually fire, they do not
work well.
That's instructive, Parallax. Thanks.
FWIW, we hold a "flare-off" at our YC every couple of years as the
mandatory old ones pile up. We have to alert local water cops, the
adjacent island airport and the Coast Guard, lest they think there's
been a multi-boat pile-up G
R.
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