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Disposing of airbags?
« on: 02 June 2012, 08:07:54 »
I put a replacement steering wheel on the Calibra yesterday and now have a spare airbag to get shut of, what the hell do you do with them?

Don't think it should go in the normal bin as it may injure someone at the tip.
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Re: Disposing of airbags?
« Reply #1 on: 02 June 2012, 08:33:53 »
Can you not advertise it for a new home?  Someone somewhere may need one?  ???
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Re: Disposing of airbags?
« Reply #2 on: 02 June 2012, 08:40:02 »
Cant see there being much demand for it, how do you set them off?  ;) ;D
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Re: Disposing of airbags?
« Reply #3 on: 02 June 2012, 08:51:41 »
long bit of wire,and a powersource then stand well back :y
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Re: Disposing of airbags?
« Reply #4 on: 02 June 2012, 08:53:33 »
Quote from: omegod on 02 June 2012, 08:40:02
Cant see there being much demand for it, how do you set them off?  ;) ;D
i once saw a home made video where they hid an airbag under a cushion on a sofa and set it off when some fella sat down... ;D..it lifted him 3 feet in the air
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Re: Disposing of airbags?
« Reply #5 on: 02 June 2012, 08:54:33 »
It has two pins so long bit of wire on each, one to neg on a battery then touch the other to pos terminal? from a long way away?

If I don't appear on here later I am getting my face rebuilt with titanium screws and plates  ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Re: Disposing of airbags?
« Reply #6 on: 02 June 2012, 09:16:49 »
Next one I dispose of I'm tempted to booby trap in the wheelie bin, to give the useless rather' binmen around here a lesson  >:(
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Re: Disposing of airbags?
« Reply #7 on: 02 June 2012, 09:31:19 »
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Re: Disposing of airbags?
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Re: Disposing of airbags?
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Re: Disposing of airbags?
« Reply #10 on: 02 June 2012, 21:58:04 »
Dont breath in the fumes just heard a bloke died last week when his airbag didnt go off fully and he died from the fumes.
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Re: Disposing of airbags?
« Reply #11 on: 03 June 2012, 13:48:50 »
Quote from: pauls on 02 June 2012, 21:58:04
Dont breath in the fumes just heard a bloke died last week when his airbag didnt go off fully and he died from the fumes.

Sounds like another urban myth to me. The gas used is usually nitrogen, which is already present in our atmosphere in pretty large quantities. Then the fact that the chap died 2 months later? Surely if it was that toxic he would have died straight away or soon after. No mention of other information like, was he a smoker, previous lung problems, post mortem report etc.

I would take it with a large bucket of salt till its been fully looked into.
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