Re: pinhole acetylene

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From: Raleigh McLemore (raleighmclemore@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Jun 13 2003 - 17:49:50 PDT 

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Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 17:49:50 -0700 (PDT)
From: Raleigh McLemore <raleighmclemore@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: pinhole acetylene

George is completely correct. I once saw a traveling
overhead crane remove the regulator fittings from two
welding tanks on the foundry floor causing all of us
proletarians to do the "run for your life...it's the
end of the world dance." Oddly enough nothing really
happened other than a lot of noise. When I looked on
line I found out that the regulators are made to break
at a 0.75 inch point to reduce the "rocket effect" on
large gas tanks. Maybe that fact and the correctly
chained tanks prevented a disaster.
A great site to visit for info on acetylene:

http://www.ccohs.ca/oshanswers/chemicals/compressed/compress.html

Congrats to everyone for another year of teaching and
being taught!

With firm handshake,

Raleigh

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