Has everyone got these things on their gas welding rigs? They are dirt
cheap and prevent you from killing yourself if there is a flash back in the
hoses... Bottles don't blow up with these!!! We had a fella kill himself
here in our town ... so now all of us have them...
interesting you should bring this whole thing up again... Brad was over
checking out the new Heater Ducting... and we were chatting about our Gas
rigs... how much room they take up for as little as they get used.... but
when your in Need of HEAT there is no better way then a Gas rig... can't
imagine installing a Starter ring gear on a flywheel without one...
Keith
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> From: FastmetalBDF@aol.com
> To: ddahlgren@snet.net; lsr_man@yahoo.com
> Cc: jdincau@qnet.com; land-speed@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: Freeze/Welch plugs
> Date: Monday, December 18, 2000 11:46 AM
>
> Dave : Wow ! I never even gave a thought to welding ( oxy -
acetylene )
> WITHOUT the regulators ...... I guess you proved it could be done ......
> with the resultant NEGATIVE results ! I did, however, have a somewhat
> similar experience, back in the early 60s ...... I had to gas weld some
item
> for one of the four 55 / 56 / 57 Chevs I was running at that time, and,
after
> making sure the regulator screws on both tanks were backed out ( a VERY
> WISE idea ! ), I slowly opened the valve on the oxygen cylinder, and
......
> there was a DEAFENING roaring sound, and my oxygen hose blew
> completely apart ...... which I noticed only after I had jumped backward
> about six or seven feet ( never did figure out how I did that .......
must be
> the adrenaline thing ). There was no fire or smoke, but my poor mother
> came running out into the garage, yelling frantically, and was as much
> or more scared as I was ...... I couldn't really hear her, and my ears
were
> ringing and my hearing very poor for about two days afterward ! After
> we both calmed down, and she again voiced her outspoken opinion on
> my hobby of altering and racing cars, I ventured over to the now empty
> oxygen cylinder, shut the valve, and when I turned in the regulator
screw,
> there was no resistance at all ...... the ( rubber ? ) or fabric
diaphragm in
> the regulator had ruptured as it received the pressure from the cylinder,
> and this created all the excitement . The only loss besides two days of
> my hearing ( and maybe five years scared off of my life ! ) was the
regulator
> and about 25 feet of the double "siamese" oxy - acetylene hose ( the
> "good stuff " ), and I had already gotten eight years service from this
outfit
> ...... it had been my 20th birthday present ! I never had that
regulator
> rebuilt ..... got brand new ones, which have served me well, into this
year .
> The long term result is I remember that whole deal EVERY TIME
> I start to turn that regulator screw in ........ for 37 years since !
> Bruce ..... a few miles west of you
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