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Default Drilling and brazing a fuel tank


Ignoramus15459 wrote:

On 2011-07-12, Gunner Asch wrote:
On Tue, 12 Jul 2011 02:19:36 -0400, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote:


Ignoramus24437 wrote:

I sense a little bit of B/S and scare talk here.


Go ahead and blow your fool head off.


Dibs on the Lincoln welder!!

Iggy has evidently never seen a gasoline vapor explosion.

I hope he never does. But YouTube may be of assistance in his learning
journey.

http://www.youtube.com/results?searc...ine+vapor+expl

Gunner


You two gave the exact example of "B/S and scare talk" that I was
referring to.

i




Like I said, blow yourself up. I had a 30 gallon tank from a '73
Chevy Step Van blow up on me. It had been empty for over two years. It
was full of water, but it jumped five feet in the air and sprayed hot
water all over me and a neighbor. It peeled most of the crimped seam
apart, and destroyed the tank
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It's easy to think outside the box, when you have a cutting torch.