Posted by JMOR on April 09, 2011 at 08:28:13 from (72.181.165.238):
In Reply to: Naw, it wont blow up! posted by Kevin (FL) on April 08, 2011 at 11:04:07:
To each his own, but I personally won't apply flame to a fuel or oil tank unless I'm purging it with a flow of CO2 at the time. I witnessed my dad being blown 10-15 feet across the yard with the round end of a tractor tank (MM I think) wrapped around his face. He previously rinsed with water, dumped & re-filled with water, being careful to not leave air space, and had already had flame applied for a minute or more when it blew up. He always surmised that there was fuel remaining in the seams that the heat liberated that resulted in the explosion. He didn't stop doing it, but he always ran purging gas during welds after that & never had another blow.
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