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OMG secure your bottles
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julianthegypsy
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The important thing is to make sure they can't fall over. You can put a bracket and chain on the wall or just keep them on a bottle trolley, which has a chain anyway. The advantage of course is that you can then move them where they're needed. No need to keep them outside.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.
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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.
Securing them upright is the most important thing.
Second is to be able to turn them off quickly. I'd sooner have them inside, with the key in each, just in case. Outside/cages etc have another disadvantage in that there'll be a wall between the torch and regulator which will be annoying when setting the pressure.
I'd be keeping them out of sight, you don't want anybody stealing them.
