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If anyone is renewing a day smoke flare my daughter is after one for a photo shoot Art project. I would supervise and it will be used responsibly and not at sea.

Thanks

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Lofty,

 

I have a pack of flares which are 3 years out of date. Was going to take to the tip ( or wherever you take them to dispose of ). You are welcome to them.

 

 

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Flare disposal is tricky, and the tip is not the right place as they contain time-expired explosives. Even the Police and Coastguard don't want to touch them due to the need to handle and store them carefully. The RNLI in Poole will take them by arrangement, and is probably your best bet Paul.

 

Lofty, I'd be nervous about letting off stuff so far out of date. Even the trained RNLI instructors have stopped using out of date flares etc due to a near-fatal accident in a demonstration a few years ago.

 

Mike

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Copied this of a tread, maybe of help if people have out of date flares, be careful and dispose of them correctly. The one that went wrong was in date!!

Maybe of no use but if there very old flares still about it may save an accident.

 

Chris

 

 

 

Pains Wessex White Collision Flare

 

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There is a Flare Recall after serious injury shown elsewhere on this site and the injury previously mentioned in the lounge. As I use the same flares I felt it only proper to highlight it here for others, this is what is written about them (I see that this is on a thread in the lounge, but should also be here for all, so here it is) :-

 

A Health & Safety Executive and Trading Standards investigation has been launched

following the serious injury of a Yachtmaster Instructor who was demonstrating a white hand-held flare.

 

The 51-year-old married yachtsman suffered severe burns and broken bones to his hand and arm before the metal tube entered his abdomen and burst out through his back causing internal injuries.

 

Steve Lucas, general manager of Pains Wessex Safety Systems, has issued a product recall on white collision warning (MK7) hand flares, Lot number: 2045 and 2046 and product number: 52651. They have an expiry date of 12/08.

 

He said: 'A batch of this product could malfunction with a risk of personal injury.' The product numbers can be found ink-jetted on the tubes of the flares.

 

The Pains Wessex White Collision Warning (MK 7) Hand Flare is sold on its own and are also contained as a part of the Collision Warn-Off Kit and the ORC RORC Distress Kit. Check if you have a flare with either Lot Number. If so, do not use it but return it immediately to the place of purchase where it will be replaced.

 

If you are unable to return to it to the place of purchase, take it to your nearest chandler, or telephone Pains Wessex 44(0)2392 623962 or e-mail recall@pwss.com

 

 

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