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Originally Posted by lstaz66
If the tank is rightside up...Should be vapor right ?..Upside down for liquid ?..Just a thought !
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I learned about that a few years ago. I never knew that some CO2 tanks had
siphon tubes in them.
So, when I turned this old CO2 upside-down, I couldn't get anything but gas..
Took a while to figure out..
Shown right-side up..
In 1963 (when I was 17), I worked in a fire dept shop, refilling CO2 tanks.
No one ever told me about the tube. We only had one tank explode,
and I was too dazed afterwards to be peeking inside the split tank..
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The new guy I was training didn't listen to me (or read the check-list),
when I told him to "Unlock the scale arm".
I turned on the big supply tank and the pump. I couldn't understand why the
scale arm wasn't moving.
When I put my hand on the tank and it was still showing under-weight,
I knew what happened and shut everything off.
Just as I started thinking about the wisdom of using two burst discs in the
compressor head, (they kept popping with only one installed),
the tank split open and since it was about 97degs in the shop,
the liquid CO2 expanded rapidly like an explosion of pressure.
It blew the outside door off and most of the windows went into the street.
Scared a few people in the fire station too..
