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SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Modern propane tanks are too well designed to be unsafe.

  People like in the picture are the reason for that

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  • marcos@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    We can thank them for providing quality assurance.

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• fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Just creates another flamethrower.

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    • user224@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It won’t release the pressure fast enough. They’ll pop eventually.

      youtu.be/-_ZLQkn7X-k

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    • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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      • SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨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.)

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• gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨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

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  • SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Do you work in propane accessories too?

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    • gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨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

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      • SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Hank was a very good man, always there for his friends and family.

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• nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨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.

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