smckeown73
Active Member
On the basis diesel is less flammable than petrol. And as landy fuel tanks are a bitch to remove. Im wondering if grinding the rusty bolts is an option?
smckeown73
Active Member
The tank has been drained but has been leaking over bodywork for some time
Mark151151
Active Member
I would happily grind next to it. Low chance of anything catching fire. Keep a hose next to you if your that worried.
Cheers mark
Cheers mark
DiscoPol
Well-Known Member
damp the area down and have a mate stood by to damp down at short intervals whilst grinding, it takes a fair bit for diesel to burn.
disclaimer: if you die doing it my way then you are entirely at fault for listening to me, but its the way i would do it if i had no other option.
disclaimer: if you die doing it my way then you are entirely at fault for listening to me, but its the way i would do it if i had no other option.
timtheenchanteruk
Well-Known Member
itll be fine. it will smoke off before it burns.
Grimmer
THE Winner
+1:d:d:d:d:d:d:d
Jay reKx
Active Member
this
but yeah, I've never had one go boom. yet.
my mate was giving me a hand to dismantle a rusty landy once, but he was sh.t scared paranoid about the thing blowing up, so I pretended to faff about with spanners and rusty bolts for five minutes until he wasnt looking, then cut the bugger off with an angle grinder. not the brightest thing I've ever done, considering the tank was half full of Petrol, but I'm still here to tell the tale.
Rubins4
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My friend and I gas axed an old rangie petrol tank out of a chassis. We drained the tank, drilled holes in the bottom corners to get the dregs out, chucked a load of sand into the tank and removed the filler neck to leave a 5 or 6 inch diameter hole in the side to let the fumes out.
He was cutting away and there was a massive WOOOOMPHHH! with a shot of flame out of the hole. The tank looked like an inflated whoopy cushion afterward.
Lucky we left somewhere for the pressure to escape, otherwise it would have blown up in his face, and that he wasnt standing infront of the hole.
He was cutting away and there was a massive WOOOOMPHHH! with a shot of flame out of the hole. The tank looked like an inflated whoopy cushion afterward.
Lucky we left somewhere for the pressure to escape, otherwise it would have blown up in his face, and that he wasnt standing infront of the hole.
timtheenchanteruk
Well-Known Member
thats petrol, not deisel tho, petrol vapour is a good explosive, deisel isnt.
martin1512
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Slightly off topic, but I had a bit of a scare on a mates boat because of a ####ed fuel tank. For some reason the silly fooker had put a metal, portable petrol tank, with a faulty vent into a closed compartment next to the boat's battery, which had one of the terminals attached with a bit of wire because he had lost the bolt. There was also about an inch of sea water in the bottom of the locker so the petrol tank was almost floating. The worst thing was that I didn't find out about this interesting setup until we were 3 miles offshore.
Pikey
Dummy Ejection Facilitator..
Nice see all them warnings about venting the engine compartment and no sparks etc.. Are just scare mongering
martin1512
Well-Known Member
It had an outboard so no engine compartment. The battery and fuel tank were located under the seat of the console.Nice see all them warnings about venting the engine compartment and no sparks etc.. Are just scare mongering
Paulmitchell1984
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as aboveid hapily do it all day long, keep a hose just inces your worried. can you get a recip saw in?
smckeown73
Active Member
timtheenchanteruk
Well-Known Member
. :lol::hysterically_laughi:rofl:
