The problem is during WWII there were a number of training facility's scattered about the province I now reside.a good test of sanity is how quick you can take them back to the tip and dont look back
Thanks, the large empty tank, if ammonia probably have enough vapor to react with a spoonful of HCL, I'll post the results.They also use Ammonia as a refrigerant, I would make sure what you have before you bubble it through gold chloride, silver nitrate and a few others..... not a good combination.
DanfossNot sure if you have manifold gauges ,but if you do the pressure temperature chart would tell you what is in it if refrigerant is not contaminated. Also gauges would give you dependable shut off in case valve fails.dandies has a refrigerant slider app
Well said.Run away from them. Any thing could be in them.
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The trash dump should never have allowed them in.
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Morons who make meth often use whatever cylinder is around to steal ammonia. Some chemical reactions are triggered by pressure and people often use random cylinders for that. If you have no idea of the history, even if you think you know what the cylinder is made of stay away. What you found may well be a bomb due to bad decisions someone else made who wasn't after a bomb.
Thanks, the large empty tank, if ammonia probably have enough vapor to react with a spoonful of HCL, I'll post the results.
The valves on the cylinders are clearly for refrigeration, in the early years So2 was the refrigerant used in most domestic units.You CLEARLY are not listening to what others are telling you !!!!
First of all - what MAY be in the empty (or near empty) tank does not mean the same thing is in the other tank therefore - testing one tank tells you absolutely NOTHING about the other tank
In the second place - a good many - very smart people - have tried to tell you - because you NO IDEA what is in the tank(s) AND because of the VERY POOR condition of the tanks you are playing a VERY DANGEROUS game with YOUR LIFE to do anything with these tanks other then to return them to where you got them
Ask yourself - are the MANY possible dangers of messing with these tanks worth the VERY UNLIKELY HOPE that it has SO2 in them
IMO - if you think the MANY possible dangers are worth the UNLIKELY HOPE then I might suggest the following
IMO - you have a better chance of playing Russian Rollet with a 357 magnum revolving six gun & not killing yourself then you have playing with these tank & not killing yourself
Kurt
it's not acetylene in the cylinder and what they're calling corrosion around the valve stem is pipe dope. a product used before teflon tape was invented.Try a web search for "Presto-O-Lite valve". This company produced welding gear. Flare fittings are used for a lot of things. I hadn't noticed the corrosion around the valve but having seen it you should defiantely not mess with those cylinders.
Acetylene cylinders are very hazardous. In it's free form Acetylene decomposes explosively at about 15 PSI above normal air pressure. To safely store it it is dissolved in solvent. Let some of that solvent out of the tank and you have a gas pocket in the tank which will cause a very violent explosion (Actually two explosions, the first is the acetylene decomposing, then you likely have a fuel air explosion from the decomposed but still flammable gas).
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