[Vwdiesel] Was Broken Bleeder Valves - now acetylene lore

[Roger Brown]

Harmon Seaver wrote:
>     I don't think propane will go off the same way. I've seen two fires where
> full or partially full propane tanks didn't rupture when the building
> burned. One was a small "logger's shack" -- the logger died in the fire, the
> 100 lb propane bottle looked pretty black from the fire, and nothing else much
> left of the building, but didn't explode.  The other was a big building, a
> store, with a big tank right next to it, building burned to the ground but the
> tank seemed fine. We sat about a block away watching the blaze on that one.

One summer I went on a backpacking trip in Hells Canyon on the Idaho-Oregon border.  We would hike until 10-11AM then set up
camp to wait out the heat of the day.  At a sheep ranch we were camped bu. a large 2-300 gallon propane tank blew off its
pressure relief valve and caught fire.  It was out in the direct sun.  That thing burned all day then that evening they hitched
it to a tractor and pulled it down to the river to cool it off.

--
    Roger