[TheForge] cutting propane cylinders- fuel-air mixture

[Gladish Family]

One of my most cherished memories of living in Mexico was the night we 
heard booms from a couple of blocks away. My mom thought all hell had 
broken loose and they were having a revolution or something: there were 
flashes of light illuminating the low clouds.
Of course I ran out of the house and down the street and saw a wondrous 
sight (for a ten year old boy).
The valve had burst clean out of a  hundred pound propane cylinder and 
caught on fire somehow, and one of the bakers had actually picked it up 
and carried out of the bakery and into the middle of the street.
There it was, standing upright, shooting a pillar of flame a hundred 
feet in the air! (ok, I was just a kid- who knows how high it really was)
Took about twenty minutes to burn out.
What a night...seemed like the whole town was there watching.
Andy G.

Ron Childers wrote:

>Darrell, 
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>I think you are right; the young lady with my propane supplier was changing
>the valve on my 500 gal tank and she said "Fire it off"! It did roar like a
>jet engine and flame shot out pretty far, but no explosion. I guess she's
>just a pyromaniac, and not a mad bomber.
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>Ron C 
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