I missed the staff meeting but the minutes show wrote back
on 21 Jan 2005 09:34:44 -0800 in rec.crafts.metalworking :
The guys at the local feedstore will replace the old valves with a new
OPD for about the same price as a new tank. They remove the old valve
using a fitting that will attach to the valve. That fitting is welded
to a piece of pipe about four feet long.
They don't use any heat, and without purging the tank. Obviously they
do let all the pressure out.

CYA This is not a recommendation to use their procedure.

"Kids don't try this at home. We're professionals, and have a fully
equipped emergency response team standing by. That's Earl over there with
9-1-1 on the ol' speed dial."


tschus
pyotr

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pyotr filipivich.
as an explaination for the decline in the US's tech edge, James
Niccol wrote "It used to be that the USA was pretty good at
producing stuff teenaged boys could lose a finger or two playing with."