[TheForge] Propane stuff (Was: Build it or buy it)
Shannell Sugrue
[email protected]
Mon Nov 25 03:45:00 2002
I just fill with water and plasma it.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Spencer" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: 25 November, 2002 12:12 AM
Subject: [TheForge] Propane stuff (Was: Build it or buy it)
>
> 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
>
> --
> Michael Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada
>
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> http://home.tallships.ca/mspencer/
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