Filling Your Own Tanks - Oxygen Fire

[caveseeker7]

Nice shots, Doug.
I always tell people to make sure their instructor is an accomplished UW photographer.
I did my Kiss training with Alan, too.

Marco, that's what I meant with O2 being volatile. :11doh:

Sad about your (ex) buddy's home, but he got off lightly.
Aside from serirous injuries he could well have lost his or someone else's life in that accident. Actually, with his diving I'm suprised he lived to torch the house. :jpshakehe

 

[Life-Is-Good-Diver]

Nice shots, Doug.
I always tell people to make sure their instructor is an accomplished UW photographer.
I did my Kiss training with Alan, too.

Marco, that's what I meant with O2 being volatile. :11doh:

Sad about your (ex) buddy's home, but he got off lightly.
Aside from serirous injuries he could well have lost his or someone else's life in that accident. Actually, with his diving I'm suprised he lived to torch the house. :jpshakehe

Hey Stephen, how you been , good to hear from you

Yes, we have been talking about him for quit some time, I refer him as the cowboy of the wild west, with diving. It was alway's an adventure


Doug, I recived the pic's, thank you very much !! I'm in the process of gathering all our photo's from the past two years of diving, and giving them to him, so he will have somthing to remember all the good times he had diving. Ashame it had to end this way, but at least he's alive, he is very lucky

 

[royalediver]

Yep, there was one in Sebastian Florida, just down the road. He was filling an out of date steel tank and it exploded. It killed him and destroyed the shop! Ya don't follow the rules, you can die! [ Unless your so PERFECTLY QUALIFIED ]!![/QUOTE]

Everyone knows steel tanks don't blow up and you can overfill them. Are you sure of your facts?

 

[royalediver]

Just to make sure there is no confusion, the above is a joke!

 

[cerich]

You know I'm not so sure about this thread. It could have served as a good warning to those who want to "do it on their own" or feel that "any monkey can do it" in regards to blending. That's simply not true. It's also true you can get away with lots of "stupid" stuff with oxygen for quite a while before it bites.

Instead it turned into "My Dive buddy has unsafe attitudes" and a "I told him so" tone. Yet when DA points out what is obvious to most anybody with any real experience(and I often disagree with DA's views, like the 70% as beter than O2 comment above) he gets called a ****.

I'm not sure what reason this has gone this way but it seems slightly "off"

On another note I find it funny how this Gas Blender and Oxygen Service Instructor guessed that boosting was involved early on.... Yet because there is a book on how to make your own booster and the oxygen hackers book so many that shouldn't be are playing with fire. Anybody want to take a bet the poor guy had a copy of both?

Best,


Chris

 

[rigdiver]

I looked at the pictures and did not see a booster or any industrial size cylinders(G's, T's.) As stated before it looks like a bedroom to me. Was this really a fire from transfilling/boosting or as someone else has questioned "just another house fire?"

 

[cerich]

I looked at the pictures and did not see a booster or any industrial size cylinders(G's, T's.) As stated before it looks like a bedroom to me. Was this really a fire from transfilling/boosting or as someone else has questioned "just another house fire?"

It sound like (go read the original link, more comments posted now) he had his 4500 psi filled oxygen bottle in the garage/bedroom and was using a whip to fill his 13 cubic foot RB bottle in the driveway. The actual boosting would have occurred when filling the supply bottle to 4500psi. My guess on boosting was both right and wrong, he wasn't boosting when the accident happened but using 4500 psi oxygen which was boosted most likely caused the problem. That is extremely high oxygen pressure where the risk of fire is also extremely high!

Another bet, he didn't have renters insurance and now the homeowners insurance company has half a dozen legit reasons to decline paying the claim.

 

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[DandyDon]

The original link has been expanded to included "more information" altho you can't tell how accurate it is...
http://www.irishmansoftware.com/fill_your_own_tanks.htm

 

[Life-Is-Good-Diver]

I looked at the pictures and did not see a booster or any industrial size cylinders(G's, T's.) As stated before it looks like a bedroom to me. Was this really a fire from transfilling/boosting or as someone else has questioned "just another house fire?"

George , has pictures of the 02 Bottle " supply tank " that WAS INDUSTRIAL size, laying right next to his bed.

Once again, this thread was put out there to let others know that aren't qualfied for blending and mixing their own gases, and trying to be helpful to show things like this really do happen, if you don't know what you are doing.

flirishman started the thread to show that this person was inexperianced, did not know what he was doing, had only been doing this for a short time, less then 8 months, and this was the result of using poor judgement , and it was a descion that he made, knowing what the consequences were if somthing were to go wrong, and now that family is paying the price, who had nothing to do with his actions