ANSUL fire extinguishers

[chris vickery]

Originally Posted by maple_leaf_eh

No markings, pure COTS. Our local surplus guy --- Wright near Kars had a few in his triwall boxes of surplus stuff last time I visited. There are differences between the wire frames needed for the military purchased ones and the current civilian catalogue. Ebay is not always your friend.

Sorry to disagree with you Terry, but I purchased the "civilian" bracket part#7077 Ansul which is the exact one that the CF uses.I bought it on eBay for
.99 cents and $10 shipping.
It is identical to one pulled off a 1970 M38A1.

[Matthew Reid]

The Model 7077 Bracket has changed over the years. These extinguishers have been around for decades and have evolved, as was mentioned there is the early style with rounded bottom and the later style with the flat bottom. The old style bracket for the flot bottom captured the bottom of the extinguisher and had the retaining band near the top of the extinguisher it was stopped from sliding out the top by the hanging loop on the extinguiser. The new style bracket has the retaining band on the bottom and captures the extinguisher at the top by the hanging loop.
So there is not a military/civilian bracket but an early/late style bracket the mouning hole locations did not change.
Most all of our stuff would have the early style bracket. Unless it was replaced at some point with the newer style.

Matthew