What kind of fire extinguisher do I need for a 17 ft outboard?
Depends on the type of failure. The one thing you can NOT do is to try and weld to fill a hole. The solder is too soft to make a seal and fill a hole. Your best bet it to cut out the leaking part and simply replace the section with another using unions. Visit your local big box hardware and they can show you what you need and how to do the repair. You can TRY to make a patch to COVER a hole. This works for COLD systems under a relatively LOW pressure, such as the water pipes in a house. Cut a piece of the same size pipe and then slit it to make a sleeve you can expand and slip over the existing pipe. You have to form the piece to the pipe. Cut a piece of rubber sheet the same size as the piece. Slide the rubber and sleeve over the hole. Now, use a pipe clamp, a screw type radiator clamp that will compress the patch to the pipe with one clamp exactly over the hole and then another on either side with NO space between the three clamps. The rubber seals to the pipe, The sleeve acts like a strongback to apply the pressure from the clamps evenly to the rubber to make the seal and keep the rubber from simply blowing out. In the Navy, I made patches similar to this on salt water piping systems during damage control training. I once made a soft patch which used NO strongback and simply was a very tight wrapping (2 layers) with Marlin (a tarred twine, sort of a rough rope, which expands and tightens even more if it gets wet.) which held over 800 of pressure before it started to leak, and then it only dripped a little until it was over 1000 when it finally failed, not because of the patch itself failing, but the pipe actually failed UNDER the patch which then caused the patch to fail.
USA The International Residential Code that governs construction of new dwelling units requires one in each bedroom, one outside each sleeping area, and one on each other floor of the dwelling. But, that is for new construction. The best way to find out what is required for you is to ask your local housing authority AND local building inspector.
kill switch, autolock, maybe a club, then find a good installer for an alarm. a very expensive alarm wont mean jack if its installed poorly. i have seen expensive alarms being installed where the positive wire conntects to the positive terminal of the battery. a simple pop of the hood and a yank of the wire will be the conclusion
