Gas heater - which gas? Red or blue?

[maingate]

I have used (and been around) oxy-acetylene all my working life and did not need H & S to tell me to treat it with respect. The few times there was an incident with it, cowboys were to blame.

Speaking of cowboys, when I was an apprentice, we had some scrap men in to get rid of the big pile of scrap in the yard. This idiot started cutting into a big hydraulic chock used on the coal face. It was well and truly seized and rusted. The heat built up pressure in the cylinder until the piston part blew out of the end with a huge bang, flew about 50 yards and demolished part of a wall next to the Stores serving hatch where a man had been stood a minute earlier. The man with the torch was a gibbering wreck and he had sh*t himself. :lol-049:

The best way to stay safe in the working environment is the ability to know an idiot when you see one. :dance:

 

[scampa]

The best way to stay safe in the working environment is the ability to know an idiot when you see one. :dance:

I believe Health & Safety insist that all idiots wear their own unique design of hi-viz jacket, for this very purpose!

 

[Caz]

BBC News - Nicholas Holmes: Camper van death caused by barbecue
Shropshire campsite death: Girl, 14, killed in her tent by barbecue fumes | Mail Online
Barbecue fumes may have killed six-year-old girl - Telegraph
BBC News - Camping death caused by barbecue

Is that enough!

I am really sickend by SOME of the attitudes on here, the acknowledgment(like) of postings with irresponsible content is unbelievable.

In the end you can't put brains in turnips!

Let's look at these cases you have quoted.

1) Young man uses disposable barbecue to cook a meal and then leaves it to burn out inside his campervan.

2) Disposable barbecue taken into modern airtight tent and left to burn out.

3) This report doesn't give the cause of death and the barbecue which MAY have been responsible was outside the tent!

4) Barbecue left burning inside ""a "no frills" wooden hut with no ventilation""

I don't recall the OP suggesting taking a burning barbecue into her tranny and leaving it burning all night.

Barbecues give off a much greater amount of CO when left smouldering all night than a properly maintained gas fuelled appliance used for a short while.

Let's get things in proportion.

 

[Teutone]

I'm about to buy one of these Propane Gas Space Calor Heater Patio Bottle Mounted Sealey LP13 GO NEXTDAY £3.99 | eBay

I am sorry to say this but you must be nuts to use one of these IN THE VAN! I have one on the garage and even on the lowest setting it chucks out a lot of heat, far too much for a small van IMHO
Not even speaking of the puff of flames I sometimes create when lighting it up, there is a lot of gas coming out and if you need to click the lighter more than 2 times before it gets going, you can already loose some of your hair when it finally puffs into life.

They haven't got the strongest of mounting on the bottle either......

Please don't do it.

 

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