Jsweezy
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Damn, I was really hoping it wasn't something cooler than that ha ha!
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Damn, I was really hoping it wasn't something cooler than that ha ha!
Backcountry Pursuit
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I haven't come across a great answer for this in my seemingly thousands of hours reading on vans. How do you clean fuel tanks before going at it with the cut off wheel to shorten the tank? I'm sure you have a great solution, but what is your process to evacuate fumes so as not to go kablooie?
Did I ever tell you the one about the welder friend that spend 2 days cleaning and flushing a gas tank before he worked on it? He struck an arc....and I tossed an M-80 under his chair. Hilarity ensued. But for some reason mostly just mine.
ujoint
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Yeah, I thought the poor guy had a heart attack when it went off. Rolled his chair over backwards and hit the ground.
This dude was always the butt of somebodies joke.
We had a fridge in the shop guys would keep lunches and something cold because the welding they did was all preheated steel so it was a hot job. This guy always kept a gallon jug of water in the freezer, that would never freeze because he was always hauling it out for a drink. He had a habit of grabbing the freezer door handle and just kind of flinging the door open.
We had a couple of ponds out back. One day somebody found a dead muskrat. A bit of string tied around his front paws and fastened to the freezer door and the wait began.
He finally went for water, flung that door, and screamed like a teenage girl at a justin bieber concert went that rat came flying out, right before falling back right on his ***. I thought WE were going to die of heart attacks from laughing so hard.
And a Hefty bag full of acetylene and oxygen makes for one hell of a boom. Ah, the good ol' days.
Backcountry Pursuit
Risk Taker
Wow. That's it? Just water, eh? Okie dokie. You'd think by reading other forums talking about gas tank welding you were guaranteed to die. K. I shall proceed with water when the time comes.
ujoint
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Intercooler is up next, getting a full front mount 6.0 intercooler. This motor needs it!
Just make sure that the van and the people who own it go back to NJ when it's all done. GA, TN and NC are full
Ha, it will be.
Yea some guys are scared, some will weld with fuel still in there.
I've seen guys do that too, run a non flammable gas in there.
ujoint
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Yeah, I thought the poor guy had a heart attack when it went off. Rolled his chair over backwards and hit the ground.
This dude was always the butt of somebodies joke.
We had a fridge in the shop guys would keep lunches and something cold because the welding they did was all preheated steel so it was a hot job. This guy always kept a gallon jug of water in the freezer, that would never freeze because he was always hauling it out for a drink. He had a habit of grabbing the freezer door handle and just kind of flinging the door open.
We had a couple of ponds out back. One day somebody found a dead muskrat. A bit of string tied around his front paws and fastened to the freezer door and the wait began.
He finally went for water, flung that door, and screamed like a teenage girl at a justin bieber concert went that rat came flying out, right before falling back right on his ***. I thought WE were going to die of heart attacks from laughing so hard.
And a Hefty bag full of acetylene and oxygen makes for one hell of a boom. Ah, the good ol' days.
yea please don't give my guys any ideas, we already have a firecracker problem.
"Problem" or policy? Seems prerequisite in any shop really.
pugslyyy
Expedition Vehicle Engineer Guy
Our problem is that we like to leave gifts for our customers under the hood (like Snap On wrenches)...