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10-12-11, 01:56
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Dumbass probably laid the acetylene bottle down.....a no-no by all accounts.
Acetylene is always supposed to be transported upright, otherwise it leaks out past the valve in liquid form, gasifies and, well... you know.
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10-12-11, 02:53
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Oh oh.......
.... I got a full acete;yne bottle laying on its side in the back of the truck box..... box has covered top.......
Guess I will let Rob or Grant open up the tail gate tomorrow morning...... ......hisssssssss Bob
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10-12-11, 03:36
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Although you should keep acetylene bottles upright usually no damage is done laying them down. The problem arises if you draw off acetylene while the cylinder is lying down or shortly after standing it upright. This causes the asetone to be drawn off with the gas making the remaining contents unstable.
So Bob stand your cylinder up and don't draw off any gas for a fiew hours to give the asetone time to resettle.  While we are talking safety never let any oxygen fittings become contaminated with oil, our teck teacher had a large poster in the welding room reading " oil + oxygen under pressure = BANG.
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10-12-11, 14:50
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While transporting acetylene and oxygen between home and the garage I routinely lay the bottles on their sides. I do as hrpearce says and stand the acetylene up for a time before I use it. I also have a US Army welder trailer that has lying down storage for the bottles. I am more afraid of an oxygen bottle falling over and breaking off the valve. When I was an apprentice mechanic for a ready mix company an idiot truck driver kicked over a bottle and broke off the valve. The bottle went through a block wall and into the washroom where it stopped after smashing into a toilet. There were no drivers allowed in the shop after that.
Cheers, Barry
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10-12-11, 15:58
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11-12-11, 15:20
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No Grant, I wasn't in "the office" at the time. Back then I was young and full of pee and vinegar, as we all were, and rarely venture there during work hours. Now I am just full of you know what according to my friends. I now live by the immortal words of Jack Nicholson in the movie The Bucket List. "Here's something to remember when you're older Thomas - never pass up a bathroom, never waste a hard-on, and never trust a fart. "
Barry
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12-12-11, 01:22
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Keith, you may have heard about this (literally!
 ):http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/austral...-van-explodes/ Last edited by Tony Smith; 12-12-11 at 02:07.
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