Air Compressor WARNING!

[Industrial Toys]

I just got a new MIG gas bottle for my welder. Maybe four feet tall 10" in diameter. Had it ten years or more! I can't lift it on to the cart. Welding on handles seems like such an attractive prospect.

Kind of unreated. But the full replacement cylinder seemed a lot heavier than the empty one. Can gas be that heavy? Is it because it's compressed? Does a compressor tank weigh more when charged with air?



I always bought opened hardly used rattle paint cans at Habitat for a couple of bucks. I have dozens of them. TOTAL waste of money for few of them work after sitting for years once slightly used. So, at least I get some fun throwing them in the fire. Best thing is, the suspense of not knowig when, or even if, they will blow.

 

[kevin37b]

Who knows of a catastophic compressor tank failure? I know of none personally. With millions of consumer grade compressors out there, and probably many neglected, what does that tell you?

I will say one thing ,nobody tells you anything . Kevin .

 

[Jstpssng]

15 years ago I took my oxy cutting tanks back for exchange at the weld store, now closed, but the owner was telling me that one of his new customers welded handles on the tanks and brought them in for refill, in short the owner said they're now junk so the customer had to buy new tanks, the weld store owner said he was a little up set, one of them stories thats hard to forget....

He's lucky that he didn't blow himself up.
I believe that it was around Christmas 1980 when a rookie salesman at the Chevrolet dealer down in Auburn was sent out back to help clean the garage. Tasked with filling a 55 gallon drum with water; he leaned out over it and lit his lighter to see how full it was. That was the last thing that he ever did. Supposedly that drum went up into the air and bounced off the 30 foot ceiling.

 

[Industrial Toys]

When you think of all the factors that would have to come into alignment for an accident like that to happen.

 

[Jstpssng]

When you think of all the factors that would have to come into alignment for an accident like that to happen.

Not really. Striking a lighter over a drum which had held flammable liquids is never a good idea.

 

[Industrial Toys]

Only suggest that it didn't sound like his job, and that fact that he used a lighter and not a flashlight and the explosive mixture was right.

Heard a day or so ago that if GASOLINE wasn't a motor fuel it would probably be outlawed. Friend once had a automobile gas tank on his front lawn, had water running in it from a garden hose. Tried repairing it with a torch and the thing blew up.

 

[Oldpath05]

He's lucky that he didn't blow himself up.
I believe that it was around Christmas 1980 when a rookie salesman at the Chevrolet dealer down in Auburn was sent out back to help clean the garage. Tasked with filling a 55 gallon drum with water; he leaned out over it and lit his lighter to see how full it was. That was the last thing that he ever did. Supposedly that drum went up into the air and bounced off the 30 foot ceiling.

WOW, another one like me that do things without thinking, wonder what causes that. I've collected old 250 gal oil drums for scrap steel but I always so nervous of that first cut I always filled with water first, so far no bang.

 

[Oldpath05]

When I use to lug my acet/oxy tanks to get refilled I made a handle out of a 1" thick x wide board. I first cut to length then a hole just big enough to slide over tank, then cut 2" around the hole then on one side where it was sticking out 6' I cut out a handle hole, big enough for my hand. Grabbing by the handle the hole would pinch against the tank resulting in being able to lift tank....

 

[sd455dan]

When I use to lug my acet/oxy tanks to get refilled I made a handle out of a 1" thick x wide board. I first cut to length then a hole just big enough to slide over tank, then cut 2" around the hole then on one side where it was sticking out 6' I cut out a handle hole, big enough for my hand. Grabbing by the handle the hole would pinch against the tank resulting in being able to lift tank....

Chad Wang tried to cut the top off a barrel

broke virtually every bone in his face , 75 days in the hospital

Steel drum explosions have killed dozens over past 15 years

Another really dangerous job is working on large storage tanks in the oil fields

worker killed while attempting to modify the tank to "meet emission laws"

Victim of Mead oil tank explosion identified as Greeley man – The Denver Post

 

[Frankenkubota]

Compressor Question. I fixed my buddies dewalt compressor. It needed the pressure switch and i rebuilt the control valve, easy peasy.

It runs fine, gets up to about 200 lbs and shuts off. I have drained it.

If it just lays there, unused, about how long should it go before it cycles back on. I'm not sure but, i might have a leak.

I will go back and look but I'm curious , what is normal?

thx