Explosion!

[DanG]

Our little local weekly paper came out yesterday.  On the front page, there was an article about an explosion at a small manufacturing facility in the County.  It seems that 2 guys were cutting a drum with a torch, but the drum had contained Isopropyl Alcohol.  One of the guys is critical, at last report, with 3rd degree burns over most of his body.  He won't likely survive.  They didn't describe the other guy's injuries.  It also caught the roof on fire, but that was extinguished with little damage.

Y'all be careful and educate your people.  Just because the last one went "pfffttt", don't mean the next one won't go "BOOM".

[stonebroke]

Whenever I cut on a closed container I always filled it up with water after flushing it for a long while. then You only have a small pop. Maybe not the perfect way but it probably saved me more than once.

Stonebroke

[bill m]

I have heard you could hook a hose from your vehicle exhaust pipe to the drum you are cutting. I have never tried it.

[rebocardo]

The tail pipe thing works in theory, in reality many older vehicles dump enough unburnt exhaust fumes (or oil) to present an explosion danger.

[LeeB]

There is such a thing as a drum cutter. Works kinda like a big can opener. I always just use a sledge hammer and a pipe wrench.

[beenthere]

The tail pipe thing works in theory, in reality many older vehicles dump enough unburnt exhaust fumes (or oil) to present an explosion danger.

And still got better gas mileage.  : : :