[TheForge] cutting propane cylinders- fuel-air mixture

[Steve Smith]

Then there was the night a few years ago in Colorado (Loveland). We were 
at the dinner table and noticed a glow. Looking out the back window, we 
saw what looked like a column of flame maybe 150' tall and estimated at 
3 miles away.

A buried pipeline had somehow caught fire and exploded. I didn't hear 
any numbers for the height of the flame, but it was actually 8 miles 
away. Pretty impressive.

Steve

Gladish Family wrote:
> 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,
>> 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.
>>
>> Ron C
>>  
>>
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