Blazecut Installation

It's very light weight plastic tube. It comes with tie straps to hang it.
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Here's some photos of the system installed:

https://smallcar.com/blazecut-...pression-system.html

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/for...ewtopic.php?t=565193

http://busjunkies.com/installi...-suppression-system/

Their website says to use zip ties as Lane said. I saw on one other website where it said you could use some special clips from Blazecut to secure the hose and there would be no visible hardware golding the tube but I didn't see that on the Blazecut website.

I have the 6' one in both my Beck 356 and 550.

Here's a few pic's of the install in the 550 Note: I painted it flat black it's probably not something you should do but the white was too much.  I tried to get an end over each carb. I

Pete

Josh, the guy on the phone at Blazecut, told me that the tube melts and releases it's suppressent anywhere along the length of it, so getting the ends over the carbs, while a good thing to do, isn't as important as just getting some portion of the length of the tube near the carbs.

I'll be intalling two of them in a couple of weeks - one for the engine bay and one for the gas heater bay.  I got those two for about 30% of the cost of a Safecraft system.  Looks like an easy installation and I'll be using metal conduit clamps to hold it in place, because I have a bunch of them kicking around and they look good.

Hi Guys. Just for info, I installed a 1m blazecut system a while ago. I attached it to the engine cover just over my carbs. Not a great pic but hope it's informative.

Hmmmm?   Guess maybe I didn't have mine in the right location.   I put it on the tin surrounding the edge of the compartment. On the other hand,  the fuel leak that starts the fire is more likely to come from the fuel line,  not the top of the carbs (unless it's from a backfire) and the ignition source would more than likely be from a hot exhaust rather than a spark (unless the fuel got in the distributor). 

Also,  doesn't it extinguish the fire by replacing the oxygen in the compartment so the fuel can't burn? 

Cory is a fireman.   I wonder what he thinks. 

You're not wrong Troy but over my carbs is also over my fuel lines (pretty much) I don't think there's a perfect installation, I just followed as close I could to the YouTube camper van video.

After talking with the mfg, it doesn't seem to matter so much where it is located.  The extinguishing agent is released 'en toto' at the point of failure.  This would be the first part of the tube which fails from heat.  The more important issue, to me, is to shut the engine off so that the extinguishing agent is not blown out of the compartment.  It could be that the extinguishing agent is released before the engine (and fan) is shut down, although combustion will stop if sucked into the carbs.  Good time to go into neutral, stop, and get the hand held ready!

Absolutely...I carry 3 hand held extinguishers. I had a fire.... I used to carry 2, both ran out before I got the flames out. Patted out the burning rubber with my hands. The petrol was coming from the overflow into the carb reservoir, crap blocked the needle. The blazecut is my first line of defence.