oxy acetilene tank dangers?

[Douglasr]

I am in industrial construction and maintenance, my welding crews work with this daily. Your shed will not get to hot but when not in use the bottle are supposed to be 25' apart or have a fire wall capable of with a 5 minute rating in between them. Another point is to NEVER lay acy on its side, if this happens stand the bottle back upright and do not use for at least one hour. On its side the acetone separates out and make a very dangerous situation. If you need more information, you can contact your local compressed gas dealer. I supply my site, in south Alabama, from Gulf State Airgas and they are more than willing to answer your concerns. Regards

 

[burnrider]

thanks burnrider

I thing a lot of us here are familiar with best practices from our work environments and apply it to our home shops in a practical way like having a fire extinguisher near by that has some thing in it rather than wishing you had one been there.

sniggler

i miss those junk yards they use to just let you go get the part you needed yourself for a six-pack (deal for broke teenagers). we used to take our junkers there at night and block the gas peddle to full throttle and lock the doors at let it scream till it blew up, the old man would come out of the house in the middle of the junk yard half in the bag hollering trying to get in the car to shut it down with us watching from down the street - hey he got the car for free instead of the usual 50 bucks

Great Post:lmao:

Did you ever go to the 'destruction derbies'? Guys would buy cars for $50 and beat the hell out of each other until the radiator blew a smoke screen, or they passed out from concussion. People paid $2-4 at the local fairgrounds for a grandstand seat. Safety belts were so far in the future, hard heads were standard OSHA issue. Don't know if life was cheap, or the beer for spectators.

American Graffiti wasn't just a movie- we lived it.

 

[Spirit20]

I had a large set of tanks in my old barn. Yes old barn, some arc welding sparks caught it on fire like big time. The oxy & acetylene blew their safety plugs during the fire, & shot a flame about 30 feet in the air. The tanks did not explode like the propane tanks did, that was an explosion.