[TheForge] Propane stuff (Was: Build it or buy it)

Mon Nov 25 03:14:00 2002

Hi Terry --

> i cut a 100lb propane cylinder ( taking safety precautions while doing
> so. )

I would be pleased to have you directions for safely cutting up old
propane cylinders.  I vaguely recall that you told us this before but
a grep through my saved mssgs doesn't turn it up.

   Any risk to just cranking out the valve with a big wrench?

   Rinse with an organic solvent?  Not?

   Flush with lots of air?  Not air?  Inert gases are expensive.

   Some way, without expensive instruments, to test that it's free
   enough of potentially explosive stuff to safely apply heat?

   Etc. etc.

Not info I need today.  I have a growing collection of 25#
cylinders that I could make things out of but I've been a bit
hesitant.

BTW, is the "accordion" (corrugated, flexible, apparently seamless)
(nominal) 1" stainless pipe for propane a commonplace in the propane
world?  With some effort I ran down a supplier because i wanted some
flexible exhaust pipe for an 8hp Briggs and Stratton.  Comes covered
with yellow plastic here (Canada), said to be a color code for propane
piping.  Are there special connectors or fittings for this kind of
pipe or are joints normally welded?  Rated, IIRC, for 5 psi but looks
like it would stand quite a lot more if the contents weren't
dangerous, say, water f'rgzample.

- Mike

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Michael Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada 

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