Weedkiller sprayer warning (carefull they seem to keep the charge)

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My parents just got one of these Weedkillers with a hand pump sprayer. Well they hooked it into the bottle and started to squeeze the sprayer and nothing came out. I took the thing and squeezed it a few times and nothing worked. So we thought it was broken. We put it down and used the bottle to fill another sprayer we got. ARound 10 mins later i picked up the pump sprayer and started to look at it trying to figure out why it didnt work.


ON the little plastic thing i saw wrote real little. ( foam, spray ect.) so i thought maybe they didnt turn the little knob. As soon as i turn the knob BOOM the weed killer stuff comes spraying out smacking right into my hand and splashing all over my shirt and got a little bit on my face.


There should be a warrning on these bottles saying these hand pumpers keep their charge Cause if this was an older person and they had it up closer to their face , this poison could very easily went into their eyes.


This is the 3rd one we had AND i never had one that kept the pressure charge up in it before and it scared the hell out of me when it exploded out like that.....

So just a little heads up to all the people who uses these. Even if you havent used them in a while That pressure might still be in the pump and could Fly out without warning

 

[r1s3n]

Hehe I used one a year ago, managed not to injure myself. Glad it didn't get in your eyes, I can see how that stuff would blind someone.

 

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[quote name='r1s3n']Hehe I used one a year ago, managed not to injure myself. Glad it didn't get in your eyes, I can see how that stuff would blind someone.[/QUOTE]


what is even more dangerous and stupid on my parents part. They though the thing was broken so they allow my cousins younger children to point it at people . IM just damn glad that one of them didnt see that small writing on the nozzel and twisted it and sprayed that into someone face or mouth.

Looked at the bottle again and it says


Pull Cord all the way out

Push cord into bottle until it makes a click

Start spraying


no where on the bottle does it say that you have to turn the nozzel on to make the item work and nowhere does it say it keeps its presure built up . Im going to call them monday and let them know that they need to add this before someone really gets hurt... this is the 2nd time im glad im wearing glasses. the first time was in an arcade back in the early 90s where they had this BB shooting game..

A bb bounced off the target and flew back and hit my glasses. If i wasnt wearing glasses that day that BB would of hit me right in the eye. The place removed the game the next day after that happened.


Just called them and they thanked me and will pass it on to the higher ups.. They as well said they had no clue that thing would of held its pressure . that the pressure should release itself if the spray didnt come out