OMG secure your bottles

[Kent]

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[Kent]

Must add I think that might be a body up the lamp post for a few seconds

 

[awemawson]

It's the pratts in the fast lane of the opposite carriage way in a VW that amaze me. Talk about putting yourself in the danger zone - a/ rear impact from traffic b/ propane missiles !

 

[Kent]

Did you see the last one go off up over the trees, after that the cop decides to move his car!

 

[Migmac]

Flaming heck, wouldn't catch me watching from such a close distance.

 

[cumbriasteve]

Flaming heck, wouldn't catch me watching from such a close distance.

wouldn't catch me...full stop!

All I can imagine is they had no knowledge of gas bottle dangers, although I would of thought the big bangs and heavy lumps of metal flying many metres may have gave them a hint or two.

 

[optima21]

quite a few of us will be carry loose gas bottles about in our cars / vans when we go camping or are used by tradesmen......when I go camping, I have these 2 propane behind my drivers seat,if the go bang it'll be like being on an ejector chair

 

[slim_boy_fat]

That clip's been around the net for a while - doesn't make it any less scary 'though.

 

[normspanners]

I was a bit disappointed, they didnt get the bangs in time with the music, like they do at a real AC DC gig.

 

[winchman]

That's the reality of a bottle in a fire, we all need to be aware of the risk and correct storage.
I assume you have all seen this?
http://www.calor.co.uk/recall

 

[mike os]

I was quite close enough to that

 

[outofthefire]

I assume you have all seen this?
http://www.calor.co.uk/recall

What if its already a log burner, do they still want it back?

 

[oddbob]

We've moved home a good few times over the last ten years or so. None of the removal people we've used would take my gas bottles (or paint tins) 'cause it nulls their insurance ...it all makes perfect sense now.

 

[JohnRUFC]

I always thought the bottles were fitted with pressure release valves so they would burn but not bang? Though I imagine it couldn't let the gas escape fast enough with that kind of heat.

 

[winchman]

I always thought the bottles were fitted with pressure release valves so they would burn but not bang? Though I imagine it couldn't let the gas escape fast enough with that kind of heat.

Some fuel gasses do, but when the fuel gas gets hot it heats the Oxygen, that's the one that usually goes bang

 

[julianthegypsy]

Some fuel gasses do, but when the fuel gas gets hot it heats the Oxygen, that's the one that usually goes bang

Acetylene bottles have a soft plug in the bottom, so if they go up it will blow and the bottle will take off rather than exploding. Oxygen don't have this plug because apparently if it goes it expands so fast that the bottle would explode before the pressure wave reached the plug anyway. There's a lesson there somewhere..

 

[Kent]

Acetylene bottles have a soft plug in the bottom, so if they go up it will blow and the bottle will take off rather than exploding. Oxygen don't have this plug because apparently if it goes it expands so fast that the bottle would explode before the pressure wave reached the plug anyway. There's a lesson there somewhere..

Run?

 

[Screwdriver]

I just got hold of an Oxy Acetylene kit, from a thoroughly decent chap off here. Both are large bottles, both "off ticket". Currently I keep them in the corner of the (brick built) shed next to the welding station. I am thinking of keeping them secured to an outside wall and pipe the gas in. I'd build a little store for them, something like a phone box size cabinet from HD breeze blocks but have a wire/wrought gate so the bottles were "free to air" and relatively visible.

What do you all think?

It's handy to have an oxy set up so I'd like to keep it but naturally, I also need to keep quiet about it!

S.

 

[Kent]

If it's at home you just invalidated your insurance if you don't tell them
Off ticket bottles? Mm. Who is going to fill them?

 

[Screwdriver]

Home insurance, not content I assume.

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