Welding Near Gas Tank?

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My next door neighbor Todd had a 16.5 tire on a thick wagon wheel always going flat. He would air it up with starting fluid. He saw where it was leaking . It was the rim cracked. He never even left the air out and he decided to hit it with some weld.

Well I shouldn't have to tell you what happened. My wife found him in the street moaning. The rim look like a tulip. The doors and windows in the garage were blown out and it sucked all the glass back in. Broke his arms and and he couldn't hear . Kathy said he looked like the Wile-e-coyote after a bad day. Blacked out face and all.
 
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barbee6043 said:
I always figured those custom exhaust guy are darn brave. Has anyone every taken an old Mpar (Chevies don't leak!?) to that guy with a small pinhole in top of the gas tank!???
Those guys have noses like a Radon gas detector. They smell some fume and send ya home...... or some just weld away!!
I have place wet rags over vented gas on truck and welded away.
Years ago I was back in my home town in W Ga visiting my old mom and looking for a project to haul back to Mo. I found the typical running 69 RR for$1000. I puled the tank and it had a couple of small pinhole in what was otherwise a sold tank. A guy I went to HS had a welding shop. I took the tank there and he put it over exhaust of running tractor while we partook of a cold one (or two). Then he brazed the holes shut. Yes the fumes dried out any gas fumes.
Some all it Southern enginuity, others just call it redneck! ha
Me, I always pull the tank now days. 99% of the time buy a new one and sender.
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Actually he more than likely created a safer situation for welding by displacing the oxygen within the tank making it safe for welding. A tank that hasn't had fuel in it for years will still be able to give you that "Oh ****" moment by that sudden whoofff when you spark her off with fumes and O2 in the correct supply. Science, ain't she great!
 
Oldmanmopar said:
My next door neighbor Todd had a 16.5 tire on a thick wagon wheel always going flat. He would air it up with starting fluid. He saw where it was leaking . It was the rim was cracked. He never even left the air out and he decided to hit it with some weld.

Well I shouldn't have to tell you what happened. My wife found him in the street moaning. The rim look like a tulip. The doors and windows in the garage were blown out and it sucked all the glass back in. Broke his arms and and he couldn't hear . Kathy said he looked like the wile-e-coyote after a bad day. Blacked out face and all.
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Blind Squirrel said:
Actually he more than likely created a safer situation for welding by displacing the oxygen within the tank making it safe for welding. A tank that hasn't had fuel in it for years will still be able to give you that "Oh ****" moment by that sudden whoofff when you spark her off with fumes and O2 in the correct supply. Science, ain't she great!
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Exactly, the co2 displaces the gas fumes. Yes I had poured old gas from it. As my bud would have said, "Us Southerns might talk slow but we ain't necessarily stupid"!! ha For sure.
 
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