Oops...dropped a tank!

[Dr. Jay]

Okay, I found out what really happened....

Little brother went to pick up the tank by the valve, only, he just grabbed on to the on/off handle. Next thing you know, 5 pictures got blown off the wall and clear into the next room with 3000psi. Dog and cat went running for cover (as well as the rest of the family). The tank gingerly hit the ground (just as if someone set it down a little too hard).

I checked the valve, etc. as best as I could. Didn't look like there was any damage, etc. The AL 80 tank had a boot on it, so that kind of cushioned the fall.

Moral of the story: Watch where you grab the tank! :sigh:

Thanks for all of your help!

 

[SPEEDSTER]

WreckWriter once bubbled...


It was fun, provided of course that you don't mind 16 hour days, backbreaking work when you're not flying and frequent close calls when you are

Yup, except as an 03, we didn't get the flight time for breathers.

 

[WreckWriter]

SPEEDSTER once bubbled...


Yup, except as an 03, we didn't get the flight time for breathers.

True story.

 

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I was a OZ-923 crewchief! I worked about 12 clicks down from the MCAS near the DMZ (at the DOD) doing PT. I was an NCO with an MOS of L&MM. I tell you it was SOP down there to A-G in my A-10 ASAP but stuff was always FUBAR.

 

[TCDiver1]

O-ring once bubbled...
I was a OZ-923 crewchief! I worked about 12 clicks down from the MCAS near the DMZ (at the DOD) doing PT. I was an NCO with an MOS of L&MM. I tell you it was SOP down there to A-G in my A-10 ASAP but stuff was always FUBAR.

BOHICA

 

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gedunk once bubbled...


BOHICA

Does that mean what I think it does? I don't know if I can reach my ankles...

 

[TCDiver1]

O-ring once bubbled...

Does that mean what I think it does? I don't know if I can reach my ankles...

Right on brutha! Thought WW might send some your way with those UNSAT comments.

By the way, i thought you had to be able to touch your toes to be DIR.ut:

 

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gedunk once bubbled...
Right on brutha! Thought WW might send some your way with those UNSAT comments.

By the way, i thought you had to be able to touch your toes to be DIR.ut:

I was feeling really left out of this little thread hijacking and I didn't know how to participate so I looked up some acronyms..

 

[TCDiver1]

O-ring once bubbled...

I was feeling really left out of this little thread hijacking and I didn't know how to participate so I looked up some acronyms..

LOL! The military invented the word acronym.:bonk:

 

[SPEEDSTER]

gedunk once bubbled...
LOL! The military invented the word acronym.:bonk:

acronym is short for military intelligence.