What would you do with this ?

[rswyan]

Someone left me a present ...

I'm thinking that the flanges would make nice bases for floor mounting of tools ... like say for a vise or an anvil ... if I can get them apart ...

What say you ?

 

[GolfAddict]

Just smoke 'em.

 

[Locoweed]

scrap

 

[Gary Fowler]

scrap

I have to agree, just not much you can do with those small flanges even after you torch off the bolts. Best money is to sell for scrap and take that money to buy what you need.

 

[Sysop]

Sell it as yard art. Someone somewhere would pay good money (more than scrap prices) to have that setting by a flower bed someplace. Appears to be about 30" long overall?

 

[jlgurr]

I would have some fun with it... bury the end of the pipe in a vertical manner somewhere in your yard. Then put some official looking sign on it such as keep off, hazardous material, or abandoned oil well, something that gets people wondering. :laughing: Have more fun by moving it to a different location after passersby get used to it being in a certain place. That'll really throw 'em off.

 

[Egon]

That would make a good shutoff valve for your bulk fuel tank!

 

[KiotiKowboy]

Leave it on your neighbor's front porch in the middle of the night.

 

[CobyRupert]

Mount it like this?


(Hint: You'll need about 10' of transparent pipe.)

 

[rswyan]

Just smoke 'em.

LOL ... good one ... :thumbsup:

 

[rswyan]

Sell it as yard art. Someone somewhere would pay good money (more than scrap prices) to have that setting by a flower bed someplace.

Now that's a thought ...

Appears to be about 30" long overall?

I haven't measured it but I'd say you're right in the neighborhood ... those flanges are probably a good 2" thick ...

 

[rswyan]

I would have some fun with it... bury the end of the pipe in a vertical manner somewhere in your yard. Then put some official looking sign on it such as keep off, hazardous material, or abandoned oil well, something that gets people wondering. :laughing: Have more fun by moving it to a different location after passersby get used to it being in a certain place. That'll really throw 'em off.

I'm likin' it ...

I could cut off the existing pipe on the one side and weld some thin wall tube 90's on either end pointing downward and bury the two ends ... then weld piece of tube onto the top of the valve pointing upward ... and install my mail box on it ...

Would probably get the mail man to take a second look ... and just absolutely freak the local zoning guy the **** out ...

That alone would probably be worth the price of admission ...

 

[rswyan]

I have to agree, just not much you can do with those small flanges even after you torch off the bolts. Best money is to sell for scrap and take that money to buy what you need.

Probably sound advice ...

 

[jenkinsph]

I'm likin' it ...

I could cut off the existing pipe on the one side and weld some thin wall tube 90's on either end pointing downward and bury the two ends ... then weld piece of tube onto the top of the valve pointing upward ... and install my mail box on it ...

Would probably get the mail man to take a second look ... and just absolutely freak the local zoning guy the **** out ...

That alone would probably be worth the price of admission ...

Probably freak out the zoning guy more if you waited to put the mail box on it.

 

[rswyan]

That would make a good shutoff valve for your bulk fuel tank!

... only if I had a 55 gallon drum of PB Blaster to go with it ... :laughing:

 

[sparc]

looks like 3" pipe and the flanges look like either 600# or 900#.
They are at least 600 since they are 8 bolt. A 300# flange would be 4 bolt IIRC.

That means (to me) they are not wide or heavy enough to serve as a stable base
for a bench grinder or other tool. They look like rasied face flanges to boot.

 

[rswyan]

Probably freak out the zoning guy more if you waited to put the mail box on it.

Heheheh ... good point

 

[rswyan]

looks like 3" pipe and the flanges look like either 600# or 900#.
They are at least 600 since they are 8 bolt. A 300# flange would be 4 bolt IIRC.

I think it might be more like 5" pipe ... and I'd say the wall thickness is 1/2" ... or better ...

Dunno what the numbers are that you cite above (pressure rating ?) but I can tell you this was a high pressure (possibly around 1500 psi) natural gas transmission line ...

In fact, the line runs just in front of my shed ... probably about where I was standing to take the picture.

The line is (was actually) part of the supply network that feeds a depleted gas field that I'm over top of that they use for storing natural gas (fill in summer, extract in winter)

That means (to me) they are not wide or heavy enough to serve as a stable base
for a bench grinder or other tool. They look like rasied face flanges to boot.

I'd be bolting them to the floor ...

 

[woodlandfarms]

Took me forever to find this.

Go to 0:42

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5neabZ5pVQ

 

[Chopperhed]

If you flip it over the pressure rating and size is usually cast on the body of the valve. If not it should be stamped on the flange.

If its natural gas service it likely won't have any nice metals in it. Make a decoration or scrap it. Or, use it as a base for something bolted down.
Even as scrap, its only worth a few bucks.
150 ASA/ ANSI =385 psi max rating in Canada
300 ASA/ANSI = 740 psi
600 ANSI = 1480 psi
900 ANSI =2300psi

etc

That looks like a fairly high pressure valve, definitely not 150/300 ansi.
I used to rebuild to rebuild those for a living. 20+ years.