Re: welding gas tanks.

Posted by kfox on August 17, 2004 at 07:18:22 from (67.241.59.101):

In Reply to: Re: welding gas tanks. posted by gene b on August 17, 2004 at 02:26:37:

When I was a kid, I used to hang around the local blacksmith, repair anything, chicken plucking shop. One day a guy brought in a new Mercury car with a hole in the gas tank and wanted to know if the owner could fix it. "Sure can, weld it right up" said the owner of the shop, so the guy left the car. It was about a 55/56 model. Clyde (the owner of the shop) took the gas tank off the Mercury and filled it with water. I was only 14 at the time, but I was getting nervous all ready. Clyde turned the tank upside down, and set down on one end of the tank with his torch and brazing rod, and I went to the far corner of the shop. He leaned over and stuck the torch over the hole in the tank, and there was a loud bang/whoosh noise, and water went all over the shop, and Clyde went up through the ceiling joist. Lucky he didn't go clear to the roof. He came down running, and ran almost a city block before he looked back. The gas tank looked like a beach ball, and water was dripping off everything in the shop. I was over in the corner laughing so hard I couldn't breathe. The only thing hurt was the gas tank, and Clyde had to buy a new one. Valuable lesson learned. Sorry this post is so long, but I still laugh when I think about it 50 years later. Ken

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