Living with a Powertank

[MagicMtnDan]

Talk about pressurized tanks going off is not a good use of one's time. There are millions of pressurized tanks in use worldwide - industrial gases are likely the largest percentage of this and there's propane and NG cylinders and scuba tanks, etc. While tanks are a potential danger so are gasoline cans :wings:

 

[unkamonkey]

So, you don't appreciate our conversation about pressurized tanks? It's just a conversation after all and if one goes off it can scare the crap out of you whatever the cause is and hopefully somebody will learn from it.
I have a Bic lighter here on my desk. Probably more dangerous than a CO2 tank.
Lighten up MagicMtnDan.
I'm still waiting to hear back from a friend that used to blow up natural gas pipelines in the winter to determine what to use on the Alaska pipeline.
We aren't that far off base.

 

[perterra]

Talk about pressurized tanks going off is not a good use of one's time. There are millions of pressurized tanks in use worldwide - industrial gases are likely the largest percentage of this and there's propane and NG cylinders and scuba tanks, etc. While tanks are a potential danger so are gasoline cans :wings:

In all safety discussions I have had it's always been not what is likely to happen, but what could happen. One fatality can f your day up.

It's not dangerous if handled correctly. Its more along the thought of leaving a CO2 in a hot vehicle, here I have seen temps in a closed vehicle in the summer as high as 160º. The power tank cylinder might could coast by just fine, but if someone slips up and you get a 5% over fill, it could cause problems.

 

[unkamonkey]

In all safety discussions I have had it's always been not what is likely to happen, but what could happen. One fatality can f your day up.

It's not dangerous if handled correctly. Its more along the thought of leaving a CO2 in a hot vehicle, here I have seen temps in a closed vehicle in the summer as high as 160º. The power tank cylinder might could coast by just fine, but if someone slips up and you get a 5% over fill, it could cause problems.

One of the people I asked had a Nazi stamped O2 tank. Swastika and the whole bit, and the PC Police out at China Lake made him get rid of it. It would look good in a corner of your living room. or his, or mine...

 

[perterra]

One of the people I asked had a Nazi stamped O2 tank. Swastika and the whole bit, and the PC Police out at China Lake made him get rid of it. It would look good in a corner of your living room. or his, or mine...

We have a couple of those where I used to work. I never saw them but heard the warehouse guys talking about them. A guy bought them out of the hold of an old ship along with a bunch of machine equipment and couldnt do anything with them. He tried to interest us in them but they were so pitted from rust he ended up just leaving them. One our our guys cut about a foot off the bottom and made a dinner bell out of one.