3dent:
From what I've read elsewhere it really doesn't take much oil to ignite. Once the fire starts, the aluminum itself starts burning.
But, again, I admit I have no personal experience. Do you?
Well, I've filled a few bottles. I saw one burn down ( no, it wasn't my fill ).
Once you get a fire you've got a problem, It's just Not true that just because there's a little contamination in the bottle it's going to blow Immediatly and every time. you may notice Luxfur holds to the 23.5% rule? That means that EVERY first stage used on a nitrox dive that wasn't O2 Cleaned for 100% service is going to blow! We both know that's BS.
I hope you read the part about a source of ignition, just placing Most things in a pure O2 envirorment even at many Atm will not cause combustion.
How many of you ahve a Oxy/Acetelene welding rig?? how careful are you of contamination when you change that Oxy tank out?? how many of you blown up because you wern't careful? see what I mean? is pure O2 dangurous? yes. will it automaticly kill you if you sneeze? no.
Oh yeah, the one bottle I saw burn down Was
Impressive - flames 8 ft in the air!
The damn fool just spun the valve on the O2 tank open and dumped a full flow into a tank. It took about 10 sec and whoose. I have Pix of the bottle somewhere, it looked like a Very large cutting torch was used from inside the tank up through the valve. It only left a few shreds of valve in the bottle.