[TheForge] Re: repost of propane cylinder cutting

[Steve Smith]

Terry L. Ridder wrote:
> hello;
> 
> i have debated this numerous times with the propane service
> companies here. i tend to believe that the slight amount of
> rust internal to the cylinder is what has absorbed the propane
> and/or the mercaptan. they still say it is the cylinder's steel.
> i guess it is really a mute point since i have seen it where a
> cylinder has been purged with water, dish detergent, and bleach,
> shoot a four foot flame out the value hole when a oxy-fuel torch
> just pierced the cylinder. 

Couldn't the flame be due to the cutting torch? Wouldn't take much 
unburned fuel to have a flame like that.

Steve Smith