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I have heard that when welding a fuel tank that it should be filled up with water first, to push the fumes out. I have never done it. I am sorry to read about your accident. | |||
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water works, it pushes the air out of the drum, car exhaust also works, and steam for 30 minutes is also a good way to play safe. " I don't know what I don't know until I know" 1994 GMC 6.5 Tubo 2005 Dodge ram 3500, 3 VW's 2000, 2002, 2005. | |||
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Tofir Mira, Good to hear your hand is getting better. OK to your question, about what would happen if you hadn't opened the vent hole. Those drums are not designed to contain pressure. If you had used the small bung instead of the big one, it would have still burned. Not to mention that the drum would have likely come apart at the seams, violently. The flat ends of the drum are not welded on the edges of the sides and top are folded together into a water tight seam. Before the welded seam on the side ruptures, the metal fold holding the lid on unrolls. When that happens the lid is launched into the air like a razor edged Frisbee of death. I have been told of these launched drum lids cutting through roofs clean. I heard of one that when half way through a brick wall. If you check out this link to closed head drum processors you will see a picture of a drum that launched it's drum lid several thousand feet away, never to be found again. There was a time when we made processors out of closed head drums, and during that time there were more than a few that caught fire and launched their lids. Again, I am relieved that things didn't turn out worse. | |||
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Your lucky it didn't explode and your lucky you still have a hand.... WOW, that story made me shudder... http://biodiesel.infopop.cc/ev...3106871/m/2227001633 Play safe! Jon ___________________________ Simple schematic for a pump and heater control with a high limit Sensor for the biodiesel/glycerin layer | |||
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Hey thanks Rick da tec, Biotom, WesleyB, and John! Means a lot to me that you have replied! Thanks Rick for the barrel info... I wish I did the proper research before I build the processor. Our project is so underfunded that we went with the most economical. We are over budget all ready due to optimistic idealism by other organizers who know nothing of the bio realm.. Oh ya and the day I got off the medication for my hand I contracted Malaria! That was another 5 days of suffering with a hand I couldn't use! But all is better now! I am totally grateful for the experience and do not regret it. The lessons i have learned are invaluable! After all that suffering I was so grateful to he alive! I feel like we take life for granted; as if everyday we expect to live, and when something like this happens, it really puts it all into prospective. Thanks All!! 2000 F-250 7.3 with 160,000 on WVO, probably 10,000 of that in Biodiesel, total milage of 333.333 + !! | |||
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