New furnace build

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(06-29-2012, 07:20 AM)Highpower Wrote:

(06-28-2012, 04:10 PM)b4dyc Wrote: Next I filled the bottle up with tap water until it was overflowing and left it a few days until the stinky stuff had mostly washed away. This ensures that the heavier than air gas has been purged from the bottle

I would not have thought of that, and probably would have wasted half a cylinder of Argon to do the purge.

Back in the day, in order to do fuel tank repairs on vehicles we would connect a hose between the tank filler neck and the tailpipe of another vehicle while it sat idling for a couple of hours.

Yes Willie,

so have you ever seen that go poorly?

I was wrenchen on my simi back in the day and my dad was across the lot doing just that,only decommissioning it. He had a hose running from the torch truck to a 15,000 gallon gas tank. Turns out there was about 1 or maybe 2 gallons left in it, all was going well he was 80% done torching out one end and 1/2 way through the other when a gust of wind came up and filled the tank with air. Talk about a noise, fortunately just the end gave out and the cylinder stayed intact! Big fire ball! and no one heart!

Jerry.