Jim Timber
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^^^ Yikes!
cut open a propane tank
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Wyobuckaroo
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I also have cut many 20-30-40# propane tanks.. I build Hobo stoves out of them..
Like said, with the fill valve out, turn upside down outside overnight, then cut as needed..
Take care..
Like said, with the fill valve out, turn upside down outside overnight, then cut as needed..
Take care..
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Well, as bad of an idea as I think this is--and that is based on my lack of knowledge and experience on the process, I saw an article in Farm Show magazine yesterday that made me sit up and take notice. A guy built a snowplow out of an old propane cylinder and it looked really good. Very ingenious and creative.
This stuff is not for me because I'm too squeamish and have a bad track record with flammables but I guess if you know what you're doing...
By the way, I had a guy weld a drain bung in bulk gas tank years ago and I'm not sure that he cleaned it at all. He just hooked a Sears--I think-- shop vac to the hole and set it to blow air. I think he left it on for a day or two and then drilled and welded. That's what I remember but I didn't see everthing.
This stuff is not for me because I'm too squeamish and have a bad track record with flammables but I guess if you know what you're doing...
By the way, I had a guy weld a drain bung in bulk gas tank years ago and I'm not sure that he cleaned it at all. He just hooked a Sears--I think-- shop vac to the hole and set it to blow air. I think he left it on for a day or two and then drilled and welded. That's what I remember but I didn't see everthing.
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Well, as bad of an idea as I think this is--and that is based on my lack of knowledge and experience on the process, I saw an article in Farm Show magazine yesterday that made me sit up and take notice. A guy built a snowplow out of an old propane cylinder and it looked really good. Very ingenious and creative.
This stuff is not for me because I'm too squeamish and have a bad track record with flammables but I guess if you know what you're doing...
By the way, I had a guy weld a drain bung in bulk gas tank years ago and I'm not sure that he cleaned it at all. He just hooked a Sears--I think-- shop vac to the hole and set it to blow air. I think he left it on for a day or two and then drilled and welded. That's what I remember but I didn't see everthing.
This stuff is not for me because I'm too squeamish and have a bad track record with flammables but I guess if you know what you're doing...
By the way, I had a guy weld a drain bung in bulk gas tank years ago and I'm not sure that he cleaned it at all. He just hooked a Sears--I think-- shop vac to the hole and set it to blow air. I think he left it on for a day or two and then drilled and welded. That's what I remember but I didn't see everthing.
Sawyer Rob
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MANY years ago, I built my first sno plow out of a HUGE hot water tank... Same idea, cut out what you need and make a mount. Over the years, I've seen many of them...
Around here, several folks are taking old 300 and 500 gallon propane tanks, cutting the end off both and sliding the 300 into the 500, then welding a plate "flush" on the cut ends and putting a door into the plate.
They are making wood stoves out of the 300, with the 500 being the water jacket, around it.
A "poor mans" outdoor wood stove...
SR
Around here, several folks are taking old 300 and 500 gallon propane tanks, cutting the end off both and sliding the 300 into the 500, then welding a plate "flush" on the cut ends and putting a door into the plate.
They are making wood stoves out of the 300, with the 500 being the water jacket, around it.
A "poor mans" outdoor wood stove...
SR
dmricke
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When I was a kid my family bought a bunch of scrap iron from the pipeline company that had a pump station in the area. The scrap included many lengths of 36 to 48 inch pipe that my granddad would cut into 8 foot lengths and then lengthwise into snowplow blades. Lots of farmers around my hometown probably still have these since it is hard to imagine that heavy pipe ever wearing out.
Dale
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My old boss 50 years ago soldered patches on car gas tanks with an OA torch. Those days we fixed stuff, rather than replace it. He'd run the garage flex exhaust pipe from another car into the fill neck and flame-on. I used to watch, assuming he knew what he was doing.
Died of lung cancer, not from being blown up. RIP Norm.
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Died of lung cancer, not from being blown up. RIP Norm.
Jim