#9: Let it burn until you get the gas shut off. Burning gas will not explode. If you put out the flame the escaping gas will explode when it hits an ignition source.
I put in a gas stove for a guy. Bled it out and lit it then checked the fittings with my zippo. I got a little flame. The damn guy was running around like the world was coming to an end. I torqued the compression nut a tad and no fire. He thought I was nuts. I thought he was nuts. Ya can soap all the joints ya want but fire to me is the best way to check a small gas line.
I'm a master plumber who has installed more gas line and appliances than I can remember. Plumbing and gas codes expressly forbid certain practices because in the past they have gotten people seriously injured or killed. Things like checking for gas leaks with flame. That, and if you're using compression fittings with gas, you need to stop fucking with gas. You clearly don't know what you're doing.
That is how I always checked for leaks when working on small lines. Of course, the gas company has meters that test the air for a number of different gasses, but I always had a lighter in my pocket, and never had a jar of soap bubbles with me when fixing a stove.
Mr. SteveP, I have a question, and I'm not being a smart-ass. I'm what my name says I am, but I've installed a number of vacuum and N2/He/H2 supply lines in labs using swagelock-style compression fittings. If they carry a -1 bar vacuum with air and well over 100 bar positive He pressure, why can't we use them for natural gas? -Just A Chemist
Very old and forgetful. I should have said a flair fitting. Yeah, lots of codes these days. Back in the sixties and seventies we were pouring hot lead using cocking and yarning irons, mixing asbestos and putting it on expansion tanks wrapped with chicken wire with our hands. OSHA was not even a thought back then. Yeah, I was licensed too.
Writing as one who spent a lot of time in boring class, 4 was just mean. It's OK when the instructor does it because then they always ask the biting question wondering if you're bored and of course you're honest and say hell yeah, I read the damned assignment you're now regurgitating, at length, ad nauseum.... Finally, by Department Head School the results were in and they let me sleep in their 100+ steam heated classrooms.
I've done some stupid stuff in my life, and done some dangerous stuff. I assume that the guy running the track hoe is doing something that is routine enough...
#3 reminds me of the Pat McMannis story where he was riding on the pickup tailgate with his gun in one hand, but had a very good grip on the rivet he was sitting on...
#1 is from an Australian beer commercial but not Fosters. Wish I could remember the name but if you Google "funny beer commercials" it might still be available along with a couple others equally funny. Imo
#8: I thought global warming killed all of them.
ReplyDelete#8 See nothing cute about an animal which is known to stalk humans as prey, getting that close.
ReplyDelete"Oh - Hi There ! Have You Heard the Word of the Lord Today Brother ? Come closer so that I can share the Good News !"
Delete#9: Let it burn until you get the gas shut off. Burning gas will not explode. If you put out the flame the escaping gas will explode when it hits an ignition source.
ReplyDeleteYou mean that's not a "Pilot light"?
DeleteBut advice duly noted.
#8 We used to have a dachshund who would do that.
ReplyDeleteWhat is #6?
ReplyDeleteLooks like it's peeling eggs.
DeleteI see it now - thanks - must be quail eggs - the spots did not lead me to think about eggs.
DeleteI put in a gas stove for a guy. Bled it out and lit it then checked the fittings with my zippo. I got a little flame. The damn guy was running around like the world was coming to an end. I torqued the compression nut a tad and no fire. He thought I was nuts. I thought he was nuts. Ya can soap all the joints ya want but fire to me is the best way to check a small gas line.
ReplyDeleteI'm a master plumber who has installed more gas line and appliances than I can remember.
DeletePlumbing and gas codes expressly forbid certain practices because in the past they have gotten people seriously injured or killed. Things like checking for gas leaks with flame.
That, and if you're using compression fittings with gas, you need to stop fucking with gas. You clearly don't know what you're doing.
That is how I always checked for leaks when working on small lines. Of course, the gas company has meters that test the air for a number of different gasses, but I always had a lighter in my pocket, and never had a jar of soap bubbles with me when fixing a stove.
DeleteDid that when I relocated a kitchen stove. My BiL was watching. When I found a leak he set a world speed record for the mile dash.
DeleteMr. SteveP,
DeleteI have a question, and I'm not being a smart-ass. I'm what my name says I am, but I've installed a number of vacuum and N2/He/H2 supply lines in labs using swagelock-style compression fittings. If they carry a -1 bar vacuum with air and well over 100 bar positive He pressure, why can't we use them for natural gas?
-Just A Chemist
Very old and forgetful. I should have said a flair fitting. Yeah, lots of codes these days. Back in the sixties and seventies we were pouring hot lead using cocking and yarning irons, mixing asbestos and putting it on expansion tanks wrapped with chicken wire with our hands. OSHA was not even a thought back then. Yeah, I was licensed too.
Delete#3-I have done some dangerous/stupid things with equipment, but that is crazy
ReplyDeleteI'm guessing that excavator is tethered from above. That's the latest craze in steep ground logging too.
ReplyDelete#8. There's food around the corner, food around the corner, food around the corner for me.
ReplyDeleteI can hear the planning meeting on #3: "You want me to go WHERE and do WHAT????"
ReplyDeleteThat fire check is okay sometimes, if you are lucky.
ReplyDeleteSee the NESCO explosion in Northern Indiana as an example to the contrary.
John in Indy
#1 & #4: How to become popular with womenfolk ... and stay single for the rest of your life.
ReplyDeleteEveryone was watching when he did it. He had his reasons and I am okay with that.
DeleteBean bag pop up has to be the best. Looks she had a full drink in hand as well
ReplyDeleteWriting as one who spent a lot of time in boring class, 4 was just mean. It's OK when the instructor does it because then they always ask the biting question wondering if you're bored and of course you're honest and say hell yeah, I read the damned assignment you're now regurgitating, at length, ad nauseum.... Finally, by Department Head School the results were in and they let me sleep in their 100+ steam heated classrooms.
ReplyDelete#9 What's so special about a pilot light?
ReplyDelete#3...
ReplyDeleteI've done some stupid stuff in my life, and done some dangerous stuff. I assume that the guy running the track hoe is doing something that is routine enough...
BUT HELL NO!
I had two of those spiders on a job pulling loose rock down.
ReplyDeleteOperators had big balls and knew the machines.
#1 & #4, no nooky for you!
ReplyDeleteAll Keepers. I love how she had the phone in #1 and then didn't.
ReplyDelete#3 reminds me of the Pat McMannis story where he was riding on the pickup tailgate with his gun in one hand, but had a very good grip on the rivet he was sitting on...
ReplyDeleteKenny, #1 is SO f'n epic. And SO close to at least one broken leg. (-:
ReplyDelete#1 is a snippet from an advertisement for Hahn Beer. I've had the WMV for at least 10 years. At the very end you can see the guy reaching for it.
ReplyDelete“What?”
DeleteThought the suit looked like that.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TCgRqKbTIM
#1 is from an Australian beer commercial but not Fosters. Wish I could remember the name but if you Google "funny beer commercials" it might still be available along with a couple others equally funny. Imo
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