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Steel Drum Explosion.

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Davis In SC

03-11-2005 09:25:18




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Just saw in the paper where a guy was cutting a drum at a local garage. He thought it contained rainwater, buy obviously was wrong..... Drum exploded, started a fire & landed 100 feet away.I guess we all need to be reminded how dangerous this can be. Victim was flown to a burn unit & is expected to recover.




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dr.sportster

03-12-2005 04:44:42




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 Re: Steel Drum Explosion. in reply to Davis In SC, 03-11-2005 09:25:18  
Even if the drum is clean and empty it is still hazardous to cut with a torch.You must use a chisel[air or hand].Its called explosions in extremly lean mixtures.



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Charles (in GA)

03-11-2005 17:00:58




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 Re: Steel Drum Explosion. in reply to Davis In SC, 03-11-2005 09:25:18  
If you need to de-head a metal drum or cut it open, hole in it, etc., the best way to do it is with a muffler splitter in an air hammer. It works fast and is quite safe compared to a torch.

Charles



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G.King

03-12-2005 02:34:14




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 Re: Steel Drum Explosion. in reply to Charles (in GA), 03-11-2005 17:00:58  
A pice of flat bar and hammer will work also,



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msb

03-11-2005 15:08:20




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 Re: Steel Drum Explosion. in reply to Davis In SC, 03-11-2005 09:25:18  
Had a neighbor do the same thing several years ago.It had been an oil barrel.He left a wife and 5 kids.



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west iowa

03-11-2005 10:52:56




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 Re: Steel Drum Explosion. in reply to Davis In SC, 03-11-2005 09:25:18  
I realized the other day that I had a plastic 5 gallon jug of gas that had 1 gallon of gas in it.
It has a vent on top of course and the shop had warmed up on a warm day. I noticed the can was expanded and reached down to let the pressure off for some dumb reason, and of course the pressure released a gas fume. If I had been smoking a cigarette there would have been an explosion. One other time I was charging the batteries in a 806, it had charged for about 3 hours and I got in the cab and started the tractor and reached down to take the clamps off of the battery and wham, fumes had gathered above the battery and were coming out of the openings, blew the top of the battery off, no injury but learned a big lesson to shut off the charger and then take the clamps off. Its the tricky things that will get ya...and not thinking all the time.

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lucasss

03-11-2005 09:36:16




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 Re: Steel Drum Explosion. in reply to Davis In SC, 03-11-2005 09:25:18  
your so right davis, your safety is the main thing when working in the shop.a freinds shop caught fire a couple weeks ago after they went home,some sparks from a cutoff saw got into some insulation. lucasss



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