Re: Drilling / Cutting Butane Tanks

Tried with spanner, breaker bar and sodding big hammer - no movement - I think it's sealled with some kind of grey glue :-(

Did think about getting my big set of bolt-croppers on the valve, below the ball-bearing bit...

Do any of them really come out I wonder? May go and get another from the lockup later and see.

Ah but a sense of adventure is a wonderful thing - and besides, it gives the neighbours some mild entertainment :-)

Kind of what I am hoping - if I don't post after 7pm tonight, assume that you and I were wrong...

Why not get a bottle of something rather less flammable - CO2, Nitrogen etc.... The bottles are just as good, but less likely to blow your head off...

I know a man with 30,000 plus if you need a source....

Purged with water for a week, drain, then add a cup full of water and a cup full of strong bleach. Swill around for a bit, then drain. The bleach destroys the ethyl mercaptan (gets rid of the stench)

Steve

Right, left or right hand thread? I'll go and use the very big hammer again first before using the bolt cropper on the neck of the valve...

On or around Tue, 02 May 2006 20:45:36 +0100, Mother enlightened us thusly:

right, I think, from memory, but it's a long time ago. there were the odd one or two that wouldn't unscrew.

Mother"

They are often glued in with a loctite too. Torch the head over say 150 Deg, and then try. How do you hold the bottle tight enough to really spanner it off ?

Steve

Make up a big strap wrench

AWEM

Unusually easy. After squinting at the bare bit of visible thread I decided that it must be RH - so set about it with the largest lumphammer I have. It didn't budge. Ah, must be LH thread then, hit it lots more.

At some point, can't quite recall when, I remembered someone mentioning "beating the s*it out of the valve", so I adopted this strategy along with a tribal chant of screaming "move you bastard" at the top of my voice.

The valve broke clean at the neck.

Holding the bend and deformed valve high in praise of the great architect of the gas bottle - I noticed a couple of the neighbours looking over the gate, at me, the valve, then in dismay at the gas bottle.

"alright?" they asked. "Yes", I replied, and smiled.

ROFL!

That'll be another entry in the neighbourhood log of strange happening ;-)

I would guess it made quite a subtle racket :-)

Lee

On Wed, 03 May 2006 19:46:35 +0100, Mother scribbled the following nonsense:

yet more strange goings on at poggle wood.... "What now" they must be thinking!

Mother"

Hmmmm..... glad to see that those types of lunatic aren't just confined to this side of the tasman. ;-)

I often have trouble with instructions - I'll forget or skip them or do them in the wrong way.. but i've never gone wrong with that one! :)