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Dents in gas tank

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Goose

12-06-2007 08:05:57




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I would like to respond to today's feature article about removing dents from gas tanks.

I tried the exact same proceedure on a gas tank. The end result was I blew the tank into a flat piece of tin, I myself landed ten feet back inside my shop on the hood of a stock car, busted my torch, cut my leg, and fractured my thumb.

I had a large spool of solder sitting on the tank which I couldn't find after the blast. My wife swore something hit the house, about a hundred yards from my shop. A couple of years later when I happened to be on the roof of the house, I found the spool of solder in a rain gutter.

If anyone else wishes to win the annual Darwin Award, more power to them. I, personally, will not EVER, EVER, EVER again approach a gas tank with an open flame. I theorized after the fact that filling the tank with water with a small bubble at the area to be mended actually compresses gas fumes to cause an even larger explosion.

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JRT

12-06-2007 21:33:25




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 Re: Dents in gas tank in reply to Goose, 12-06-2007 08:05:57  
Here is a good one I did when I was a kid. My dads old diesel tractor would never start on a cold morning unless you sprayed it full of starting fluid. One morning when I was going to feed I was in a hurry, opened the port and gave it a big shot of fluid. Problem was the nozzle was turned backwards so all it did was soak my cloth gloves and coat with fluid. Well the starter key had not worked in years and he had rigged up two wires that you touched together to engage the starter. So when the wires touched a spark flew and you can guess what happened next. I got the glove off and stomped it on the ground and beat the hell out of my coat sleeve to get that one out. It was a good thing he always parked the old beast outside.

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Lanse

12-06-2007 16:27:38




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 Re: Dents in gas tank in reply to Goose, 12-06-2007 08:05:57  
allright, well were on it:

one day over the summer i was in a hurry and decided to use WD40 in place of starting fluid so i sprayed some in the hole of the lawnmower's engine. I re-attatched the plug to the mag wire, because i was in the weeds (where the stupid thing died the night before) and diddnt want to lose it. Bad part was i did something real stupid, really, really stupid, i forgot to put the plug back in. keep in mind it was attatched to the mag wire. I guess it was grounded also, because when i pulled the cord there was a bang and flames. I was unhurt because i was standing to the side of the engine.

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BillinCentralMO

12-06-2007 16:17:53




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 Re: Dents in gas tank in reply to Goose, 12-06-2007 08:05:57  
We were having trouble starting my gas 806 one cold day. My friend says he'll spray the ether in the airfilter port when I turn it over . He is standing on the right front tire.I hit the starter and BANG a flame shoots out of the aircleaner port and blows said friend 5 feet acoss the polebarn floor. I jumped down to assist him and now the tractor is on fire. He appearing to be OK I sprint 250 yards to the house for the fire extinguisher and back (isn't that where you keep yours?). On my return the fire is out and friend is intact but he has no forearm hair and no eyebrows! He looked like Dick Gephardt. (an unsuccessful former Presidential wannabe fom St. Louis best known for doubling our tax rate and his prominent abscence of eyebrows.) We use ether very sparingly if at all now.If you didn't know it , if the ether is pooling as a liquid as you spray it , better stop or cover your eyebrows (unless you are planning to run for President.)

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rrlund

12-06-2007 09:46:20




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 Re: Dents in gas tank in reply to Goose, 12-06-2007 08:05:57  
Don't you hate getting blown up like that? I was fixing a 20 inch manure spreader tire once. Was a split rim and I had the ring side down on the shop floor.I was crouched down on it inflating it.Next thing I knew I was in the air flying out the door wondering if I was ever gonna hit the ground. Came down just short of hitting my head on the drawbar of a tractor. Never really did recover all the way. I have an ankle that pops if I twist it. Funny thing,it didn't happen in slo mo like it does in the movies.

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Lanse

12-06-2007 15:50:04




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 Re: Dents in gas tank in reply to rrlund, 12-06-2007 09:46:20  
you dont deserve the award. Youre a runner up :-) Sorry.

The brazilian man that went looking for scrap does. He found a few RPGs and decided to remove the explosives from them. First, he tried driving over it with a car, then beat it with a sledge hammer. It worked...in a sence. The explosion killed him, blew up his shop and his car. (its on the website. Not sure about the car being damaged, but i think it was)

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