Anyone know how I can dispose of the pile of outdated flares I have piled up?
Thread: outdated flares
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04-19-2010 10:33 PM
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04-19-2010 10:36 PM
Bonfire! They are great for starting bar b q's too...
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04-19-2010 11:17 PM
ship them to me! i will make sure they are disposed of in a safe manner.
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04-20-2010 10:54 AMSave them for the 4th of July-than shoot them off. Thats what I do.
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04-20-2010 02:45 PMThe most consistent method we've found is to go to www.earth911.org and type in 'hazardous waste' for your zip code. This will prompt the local recycling centers that can handle expired flares.
In some areas the local CG Auxilary or Power Squadron will take them to use for training and also some fire departments will take them.
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04-20-2010 04:47 PM
thanks for the suggestions, I didn't want to set them off and have a false alarm , burn down my neighbors house or throw them out and set a garbage truck ablaze
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04-23-2010 08:11 AM
shoot them off , just shoot them off
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05-24-2010 05:42 PMI have a burn barrel behind my house, I thought about shooting them in their and putting the (Weber grill) cover on REAL fast! Be bad if it zinged out and crashed through a window and burned my boat, truck, van, garage and house down, LOL!
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05-25-2010 05:48 AM
Keep them as spares.
In an emergency, if you use all your current date ones..... you will not care what the date says to continue to get someone's attention.
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05-25-2010 10:59 PM
I keep them as spares too. Can't have enough if you need them.
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06-07-2010 04:43 PMWe love them for Fishing, when the Power is Dead in Moorehead
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10-21-2010 02:49 PMIf you have just one chance of saving your life and the flare doesn't fire, you die. Outdated flares are not safety but a bad gamble.
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10-30-2010 10:26 PMThis is very Nice post you mentioned here.
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11-21-2010 01:42 PM
Anyone ever fire off a flare?
Scares the hell out of me to have to depend on these things,,,, I have the ones in the handgun and seems like it only went about 40 feet in the air and maybe 200 or so feet away when I shot off some expired ones.
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11-21-2010 05:54 PM
I really haven't ever payed attention to the dates on flares, Whats the average life of Flares?
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11-22-2010 07:04 AM
I think its around 3 years they expire.
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