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Old 07-29-2022, 10:32 PM   #4
cas3
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Default Re: Welding supply truck explodes

I had a fire in my shop in 2010...bad thing. All those bottles have, if you look close, a small lead plug about the size of a pencil in the top near the valve. The idea is the lead will melt and release the gas instead of cooking it to the point of explosion. The 3 bottles in the fire, Oxygen, Acetylene, and co2/Argon did not explode
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