welding gas tank reply Bill Wisc

Anonymous-0 · Aug 13, 2009

If you are like me, perhaps you don't get real far down the list of post to check replies out so I posted a new one.

You mentioned a fellow was found on the other side of a fence w/ no burns etc. The park ranger saw the explosion and all.

I think perhaps I have seen the guy, no burn marks, still uses a metal tools & drinks beer. There are indeed no visible signs of injury from his ordeal, rather the effects are in the mental part of his body.

PS. you can see him on the net, he now has a new job---Welding gas tanks for a video, see Welding gas tank, on the original post below.

old popper · Aug 13, 2009

Thirty some years ago I was working part time in a small town welding shop when a fellow brought the gas tank off his lawn mower. Wondered if I would weld it. "Sure" I said. "OK, I'll be back in an hour to get it." "Oh no, If you want me to weld it, you have to hold it while I do." He threw the tank in the scrap pile, and went to the dealer to buy a new tank. Nuff said.

LOU from WI · Aug 13, 2009

I can count myself in the company of dorks who tried welding a gas tank. Tried to weld up a tank(YEARS AGO) and even put a huge boukder on top of it, Took the dozer quite a lift to get it on without crushing the tank. Left a stream of gas leading to the throat of the tank. Lit the gas stream and walked a ways back. Flames went into the tank O.K. and just when it burnt down, BOOM up went the boulder about 6 feet in the air,and needless to say the tank swelled up and busted the seams. Found out just how lucky and stupid i was. I"M still alive and kickinat 74 +.
My suggestion to others that think about trying, is let some other dork do it. Don"t be in a rush to end it all.
LOU

JD Canuck · Aug 13, 2009

It is not just gas tanks, if you do not know what has been in any kind of a closed vessel barrel, tank, can or what ever the best policy is not to weld or cut it unless your life means nothing to you.

Bill(Wis) · Aug 13, 2009

Yes. Well, your bringing up the 55 gal drum reminded me of that story. Now, the US Army, after trying to make a "nuclear burst simulator" with a 55 gallon drum of gasoline with a stick of TNT under it, (quite spectacular) finally decided on the magnesium flakes in a 55 gallon drum with 1/4 stick of TNT. It was like a really BIG flashbulb going off. That drum had a clamp-on lid so you just released the clamp, removed the lid and detonated it remotely. I wondered if the drum in the salvage yard had the same type of lid. Otherwise, how would they get the magnesium in the barrel? And how would they expect anyone to get it out? I'm betting that barrel had a removeable lid but that guy with the torch was going to do it his way.

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