The smell of natural gas

[murphy1244]

I miss a gas stove. Never smelled anything on the New ones just Ma's 40 year old Kitchen Aid

 

[Bird]

wondering if they produce any amount of a gas smell while they are being used.

Nope, if they do, you either have a leak or something is out of adjustment; i.e., gas/air mix.

My wife and I have had natural gas, LPG, and electric over the years; currently total electric home. Each has some advantages/disadvantages over the others.

 

[Jim in ICT]

My paternal grandfather lived in Oklahoma and had a job as a pipeline walker. This would have been in the 40's and 50's. His job was to walk the Magnolia pipeline and look (and smell) for leaks.

 

[k0ua]

No, smell from a gas range.. they work well, Most real chef's prefer them, at least that is what the wife says... We have both gas and electric.. Gas downstairs and Electric upstairs. Gas is a little more adjustable, and when you shut it off you can leave the pan on the burner as it cools down quick, unlike electric. Wifey always says that gas oven is better because the combustion makes a lot of water vapor, and therefore a moist heat.. on the same token they are not worth spit for drying out your 7018 welding rods.

James K0UA

 

[V1Rotate]

Thanks

 

[RedNeckRacin]

I am pretty sure there was very little H2S if any. The mine was certainly not known for it and my detector would pick it up in ppm. So i remain skeptical. :confused3:

 

[Bird]

I am pretty sure there was very little H2S if any. The mine was certainly not known for it and my detector would pick it up in ppm. So i remain skeptical. :confused3:

I'll take your word for that because I sure don't know what might have been in a mine. But I'm naturally skeptical about you smelling natural gas since I never heard of a human that could do that.:laughing: I mentioned before about the odor that most people would take for natural gas at a location in which they were adding the mercaptan. I also had an incident in which I was checking some premises for a gas leak (routine survey) in which I thought I smelled gas, but after carefully checking, no leak was found. The gas company employee and I then went to lunch and when we got back in the truck, they told us they had dispatched someone to check on a gas leak at the location where I found none. So we went back over there. No leak was found, but we did learn they had applied fertilizer to the grounds the day before.:laughing:

 

[RedNeckRacin]

I'll take your word for that because I sure don't know what might have been in a mine. But I'm naturally skeptical about you smelling natural gas since I never heard of a human that could do that.:laughing: I mentioned before about the odor that most people would take for natural gas at a location in which they were adding the mercaptan. I also had an incident in which I was checking some premises for a gas leak (routine survey) in which I thought I smelled gas, but after carefully checking, no leak was found. The gas company employee and I then went to lunch and when we got back in the truck, they told us they had dispatched someone to check on a gas leak at the location where I found none. So we went back over there. No leak was found, but we did learn they had applied fertilizer to the grounds the day before.:laughing:

Well I work in the gas industry now and am pretty familiar with mercaptan, but underground its all natural. No spices added as it were. lol I'm not saying I could tell you what the concentration was, but I know I could smell it or a compound in it when it was venting out of the coal. Pure methane is probably odorless, and I have no way of telling you what the composition of that particular mine gas was.

 

[Bird]

Pure methane is probably odorless, and I have no way of telling you what the composition of that particular mine gas was.

I know you've had a lot more experience than I've had. Fortunately (at least I consider it fortunate) I've only been in one coal mine in my life; an old exhibition mine in West Virginia.:laughing: About 48 years ago I married a gal from West Virginia and we'd been married for 2 years before our first trip back there to visit her family and we visited that old exhibition mine because I'd never been in one. Her dad has worked in the coal mines before she was born, but had gone to work for the railroad many years before.

 

[RedNeckRacin]

I know you've had a lot more experience than I've had. Fortunately (at least I consider it fortunate) I've only been in one coal mine in my life; an old exhibition mine in West Virginia.:laughing: About 48 years ago I married a gal from West Virginia and we'd been married for 2 years before our first trip back there to visit her family and we visited that old exhibition mine because I'd never been in one. Her dad has worked in the coal mines before she was born, but had gone to work for the railroad many years before.

Ah, i didn't work in anything like that! I worked in a longwall mine in west virginia. No canaries or picks for this guy! lol Was a production foreman for a couple of years. Thats a tough life but I can't believe how much I learned and grew up while I was there.