Oxy/acet tank ownership transfer

[ultrarunner]

Auto wreckers here won't let you use torches or grinders. Too much risk of fire.

It’s been awhile and one of the salvage yards I patronized turned out to be a toxic waste site… 75 years dismantling vehicles on a coupe of acres of dirt…

Antifreeze, oils and fluids overtime…

Not many battery tool options existed in the 80’s like today… a battery sawzall can do a lot…

One of my projects was taking two damaged Model A roadster bodies and making one…

Plus I cut up a few wrecks to fit in my box trailer to take to the scrap yard…

The Roadster was all with oxy-acetylene torch and my friends could not tell where I had joined the bodies…

A lot of these skill sets are fading along with the generations that used them…

Growing up in suburbia there were always dads with home shops… maybe a drill press, air compressor, router and a table saw… a few did welding which made them a great resource for broken bikes and mower repair.

I can’t think of anyone around me with anything more than maybe a cordless drill… they are more 3D printer types and gamers…

I put together a nice set for my nephew on the farm but the folks rightfully raised concern about fire danger and they live in a high fire danger area… so I still have it.

 

[lostcause]

Auto wreckers here won't let you use torches or grinders. Too much risk of fire.

Last (and only) time time i ever got away with that was the early 90's. junk yard let me pop off some u-bolts with my portable torches to get a truck axle out.

Also got the ok to go in with a 1kw portable gen and a corded sawzall once back in the 90's too, before battery tools. had a family member encounter a small moose that went up over the hood and through the windshield and almost into his lap (folded the steering wheel back) I cut out the windshield posts on both sides of the donor vehicle with the sawzall then he OA'd them back into his with a coat hanger. windshield did require a bit of goop for a perfect seal, but it all did the trick. In some ways I kinda miss the days of my youth... Do they even make metal coat hangers anymore?