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I've heard various figure quoted recently. What is the exclusion area radius that the fire service imposes if acetylene cylinders are involved in a fire?
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I believe it is a nominal 200m
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Remembering that 200m is a political safety zone as exploding metal can travel far farther than 200m
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We ceased any welding on our site with gas (inc Acetylene) as we were fortunate enough to be able to do the tasks using other methods.
Our site is fairly small and is surrounded by residential property - the thought of a 200m exclusion zone for 24hrs while the fire service cools the cylinders with water jets whilst lots of angry residents shelter in the local community centre kind of tipped the balance.
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As I have [nearly] said before; a fool and his acetylene/propane/oxygen cylinders are soon parted.
Any bottled gas is potentially dangerous.
£0+ years welding/flame-cutting. Never seen an acetylene problem.
It's the value of training. Once you emphasise to a guy that rolling an actylene bottle out of a van/off a truck is dangerously stupid, along with a few facts, they tend to treat all cylinders properly.
But I still see stupid people using them on site. An acetylene cylinder, used lying flat, is a timebomb.
So is denting one....once the absorbent filler is damaged, and the acetylene is no longer dissolved, the gas can easily decompose.
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Bad typing....30+ years !
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