• SatansMaggotyCumFart
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    545 months ago

    Modern propane tanks are too well designed to be unsafe.

    Worse that will happen will be a little fireball and a flamethrower, but no explosions.

    • @SlopppyEngineer
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      335 months ago

      Modern propane tanks are too well designed to be unsafe.

      People like in the picture are the reason for that

      • @marcos
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        125 months ago

        We can thank them for providing quality assurance.

    • fmstrat
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      95 months ago

      But a flamethrower pointed at another tank, increasing it’s temp and pressure…

        • fmstrat
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          25 months ago

          Heated at a slow rate maybe, since the valve would fail. At speed though, too much too fast.

          • SatansMaggotyCumFart
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            45 months ago

            There’s a safety valve.

            Mtyhbusters had to weld up the safeties and shoot them with a shotgun.

            When I worked in the arctic circle, we used to put the tank in the fire ring because they would freeze and nothing happened (I don’t recommend this of course.)

            • ✺roguetrick✺
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              55 months ago

              Satansmaggotycumfart actually tracks with me for being the type of person who takes a job up in some place like Inuvik Canada. Everyone I’ve ever known who’s done that has been fucking crazy.

    • @[email protected]
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      45 months ago

      I work in propane and some body actually did this ~3 weeks ago with one of our cages

      It’ll not explode, but it’ll burn the cage down along with anything the cage is near should a spark catch, they’ll go up in flames FAST

        • @[email protected]
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          45 months ago

          I’ve said it elsewhere on Lemmy:

          I work in propane. I once was proud that I sold the most ez-go (stupid and basically useless accessory) in one month. my name starts with Ha-

          I live in CA and prefer charcoal but otherwise I have become the professional persona of Hank Hill. My boss and I tried to get them to put “Hill” on one of my work shirts when I was still in the yard as a joke but Cintas said no

    • @[email protected]
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      5 months ago

      These storage units are usually at gas stations though, which are kinda dumb to be smoking anywhere near IMO. But I still see people doing it now and then. Usually gas station employees.