Soap bubble testing is not what I am after. I am wondering if anybody has a
recommendation for a reliable and sensitive gas detector. A divining rod to
find buried pipe is really not what I am looking for either.

Smarty


"Joseph Meehan" wrote in message
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Tom The Great wrote:
On Sun, 5 Nov 2006 08:13:50 -0500, "Smarty" wrote:

I have just installed a lot of gas piping (for a natural gas fired
emergency electrical generator) with many joints in the piping. I
have looked online at different combustible gas detectors (at places
like hvactool.com) and have found units ranging from $59 all the way
up to several thousand dollars. Does anyone have a recommendation
for a sensitive, reliable, and relatively low cost instrument which
can detect / localize gas leaks?

Thanks very much for your advice.

Smarty



I always liked just soap bubble testing each joint. But then that is
me.

That reminds me of the time I had a gas leak and the gas company was
trying to find the location of the gas line. The young guy that came out
had a couple of electronic devices in including a sniffer and some sort of
electronic sensor. He could not find it. He called in the supervisor.
The old guy got out of his truck, listened to the problem, went back to
his truck and pulled out what looked like two welding rods with a 90º bend
on one end. He used them like devining rods looking for water. Well he
found the pipe and marked it out and found the cut off. I asked him about
it after the other guy left. The run an electric tracer wire along the
plastic gas lines in my area and run a small current through it. The
fancy electronic tool they issue them break down often and are not as
sensitive as a good operator using the metal rods. :-) High tech does
not always rule.



later,

tom @ www.Consolidated-Loans.info

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Joseph Meehan

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