A few years ago I almost lost my life. I can now sit here and talk about how dumb it was and warn ppl the dangers of scrapping.
I save up gas tanks off of cars I scrap untill I get 15-20 and then I take a day of cutting them up. I usually fill up the tanks with water use a saw saw and no prob. I had 3 left to do, and broke my blade. I went to the basket where I keep my extras and none. So I thought I would fire up the torch,(of corse not thinking I an cutting GAS TANKS). I did fill them up with water, then pour the water out. The first one went good, cut in half at the seams no problems. The second on, (by then the water started drying and there was a little resiude of gas in it. Needless to say the tank blew up after about 5 secs of cutting. I ended up with a broke leg, and a busted chin. Had to get 4 $tiches in my chin. The torch head ended up getting broke, as well as I had to replace a window in my shop, and replace a few shelves, pick up a bunch of stuff. Goes to show that sometimes ppl start out doing something, and when something changes we tend to try different ways to do stuff, not always thinking about the outcome
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