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Re: Cutting up a propane cylinder goes badly wrong
« Reply #1 on: April 27, 2015, 07:56:57 PM »
just seen your post on FB, what a fool.

and also tony I don't think I thanked you for bike tickets??? cheers for that chapper...

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Re: Cutting up a propane cylinder goes badly wrong
« Reply #2 on: April 27, 2015, 08:06:51 PM »
I'm just glad they went to a forum buddy that'd use 'em :)

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Re: Cutting up a propane cylinder goes badly wrong
« Reply #3 on: April 27, 2015, 08:29:22 PM »
I modified a butane cylinder last week removed the valve and inverted for three days
then filled with water before cutting two 2" holes cannot be to careful with a potential bomb.       

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Re: Cutting up a propane cylinder goes badly wrong
« Reply #4 on: April 27, 2015, 08:49:47 PM »
That's funeeeee.

Makesme wonder if they actually knew it was propane in the tank, or had someone filled an odd tank with gas. You would think they would be inclined to actually use any gas they got.

And to be honest, it makes me wonder if it was gas at all. Surely gas under pressure would try to escape all at once. That looked more like a liquid to me.

I reckon someone had filled an air tank with petrol, or some such stuff, and it had got warm in the sun, and presurised.
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Re: Cutting up a propane cylinder goes badly wrong
« Reply #5 on: April 27, 2015, 09:17:38 PM »
That's the sort of thing we should be doing at the BBB ...

Guess the contents of a tank using only a cutting torch.
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Re: Cutting up a propane cylinder goes badly wrong
« Reply #6 on: April 27, 2015, 09:35:07 PM »
Sounds like a fun game.

Did you hear about the British WWll bomb that was unearthed in BKK, late last year?
All over the news, pictures of it in the ground, and transported to the scrap yard.
Three days later, there is an almighty explosion in Bangkok, the scrapyard has decided to cut the bomb up with OxyAcetylene.  Vaporised at least six people, and rattled the shed up a good bit.
The blast must have gone straight up, it should have levelled everything three streets away.
Now that really is dumb.

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Re: Cutting up a propane cylinder goes badly wrong
« Reply #7 on: April 27, 2015, 10:56:01 PM »
What a twat, having kicked it once and set some of the adjacenet digger on fire and making it 10 times worse he then does it again.

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Re: Cutting up a propane cylinder goes badly wrong
« Reply #8 on: April 27, 2015, 11:21:26 PM »
Roll it over and let the liquid propane out, good plan...

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Re: Cutting up a propane cylinder goes badly wrong
« Reply #9 on: April 27, 2015, 11:59:16 PM »
I really like the time lapse when the Fire truck turned up and the digger was all but torched...well funny. ;D