Posted: 5/18/2005 10:53:47 PM EDT
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Can someone give me a link to info about the disposing of pepper spray. I know I can just shoot it into the ground and throw the containers away but my cheif wants something "official". TIA |
Someone's face?  That reminds me, I've always wanted to make some kind of automatic pepper spray dispenser. Like, mounted by a window, say, and hooked into the alarm system so if the window opens when armed the intruder gets a face full of pepper spray. Or even remote control units out in the yard where you could give just a little whif to people walking through your yard after they've been told not to (for example ) Just some kind of holder you'd put a regular can into with a solenoid to push the button. |
Gazillion dollar idea... Put me down for the lawn gadget. |
Sweet!! Gotta get me some of those. Knowing me I'll stick just make my own  If I was a bachelor, I would definitely set something like this up around the house. But I KNOW that thing is going to malfunction and spray my 4 year old kid when he decides to open his window up at night or my stuff malfunctions.
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Thats not odd, thats just the way it works. Milk works because it has something to do with the fat in the milk, water obviously doesnt have fat in it. |
Capsaicin is soluble in fat and alcohol, but not water. However, once it latches on to your taste buds, it doesn't really want to let go. |
| Send your expired stuff to the basic school to be expended on the recruits during their OC familiarization training.Do you guys not use it that often that you have anything more than an occasional canisiter that needs disposal? Around here it gets disposed of by rotating the canisters by using it up on people! |
| Probably won't find much, I don't think its a "HAZMAT" is it. There may be a what is that form frm chemical manufacturers called, tells you all of its properties, how to store or dispose of it. having a brain fart right now. the only thing I remeber is its called " The employees right to know....." |
Some one use to make one that had a pull pin like a handgernade with a trip wire attached. |
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1. Find some bushes behind the PD. 2. Spray can until empty. 3. Dispose of can by placing in approved waste container. 4. Make sure to send out e-mail telling everyone where the "no-go" area is located That is the exact procedure we use, and when we recently changed OC brands, Supply about wore out some buches behind the station. OC in defense sprays is almost always food grade stuff, and there is nothing toxic about it. If you want the official scoop, contact your Environmental safety/OSHA folks and they will likely tell you the same thing. Unless you are carrying the really big OC projectors, you have no real idea how much OC is left after you have made a deployment, so we always swap for new cans after we have used any from the old can. CAPSTUN used to have a bar on their containers, and you could theoretically float it in a cup of water to get an approximation of how much OC was left, but CAPSTUN on held about 3 shots, and one burst usually used half a can, so the feature was essentially worthless, as any deployment used up too much OC. It really sucked when you ran out of OC and NEEDED more. I also like the idea of using them for training, and next time I swap cans, I'll practice on a standard pistol target instead of just spraying the flower beds. |
That's MSDS. Material Safety Data Sheet. |