Great way (not) to transport your oxygen cylinder

[Botaskinner]

My dad was a Cat mechanic for many years. One of his colleagues heard about a guy who had an O2 cylinder laying on its side, sitting behind a utility body door. He hit a bump, knocked off the regulator, and the tank blew the door open and launched across the mud flats along the bayshore freeway (US101, south of SF Airport) .

They never found it.

 

[seaneastok]

We had a 120 cubic bottle fall over in the auto shop in high school, knocked the head off...It wound up two doors down in the Ag shop...

 

[jwmorris]

You can see the safety cap folded down, not transport position.

I do remember many years ago a tank falling over in highschool, with valve open, and brass regulator fitting broke off, not complete valve, just made a lot of noise before I could walk over to it and turn it off.

Likely a good thing I was welding when they knocked it over as my sweaty glove stuck to the frozen valve once I had it shut off.

 

[Tractor Seabee]

We had a 120 cubic bottle fall over in the auto shop in high school, knocked the head off...It wound up two doors down in the Ag shop...

I took welding in high school and part of the training was changing O2 bottles and servicing the acetylene generator. Kids were changing O2 and knocked over one. Valve broke off. The rocket punched a hole through a concrete block (the old heavy ones) wall and ripped through a car door across the street, wound up on the front seat of the car. Mucho power in there.

 

[Furu]

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Looks like they have one on there, just not used at the time.


Also, they could have a floor mounted bottle rack we cant see..

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That is what caught my eye. The cap was not in the secured position for transport.

Actually the regulator caught my eye then I noticed the installed protective cap was there but that it was not in the secure/transport position.

 

[TemporaryKubotaOwnerMark]

I took welding in high school and part of the training was changing O2 bottles and servicing the acetylene generator. Kids were changing O2 and knocked over one. Valve broke off. The rocket punched a hole through a concrete block (the old heavy ones) wall and ripped through a car door across the street, wound up on the front seat of the car. Mucho power in there.

Yep. Similar pressures to a SCUBA tank, and I know of several cases where one of those has punched through a cinderblock wall.

I suspect that most human bodies would not do much better at stopping one of those.

 

[Howling]

That is what caught my eye. The cap was not in the secured position for transport.

Actually the regulator caught my eye then I noticed the installed protective cap was there but that it was not in the secure/transport position.

The regulator gauge show pressure. Probably the tank valve is open to match the open protective cap.

 

[Sledge]

Here's what can happen when things go bad.

Home - IHM Used Parts

 

[Soundguy]

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Looks like they have one on there, just not used at the time.


Also, they could have a floor mounted bottle rack we cant see..

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exactly.

 

[woodlandfarms]

In my two cities the counties are completely AR about having everyting at the latest codes. When looking at the photo it looks like the protective cap that Midnite had posted had vibrated open. Still not safe, and thanks to everyone who answered my dumb question.