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Glad you weren't hurt and it wasn't worse! I was thinking in the middle of your story, "Oh man, I hope it didn't bust the valve off!" how far will a tank of argon fly with a wide open valve? I know that dive tanks can become deadly missles when full...
later, Tom.
Ihave done this twice over the span of years.When it falls.......it falls off the heigth of the hole in the rear of the welder.The bottle is tall enuff to figure it hits diretly below the valve 3" or [edge of tank]so. So all is good there, Now the tank i was foolin round with, was empty,So that was a stroke of good luck.........naww i'll call it a real quik blessing.
I had a buddy who used to be in the navy. he told me they would get drunk on sat nite! lay those bottles on a flat board the heigth of the ships railing, Then take a 5 lb mall and knock the valves off of them'[ brass] and watch them fly out of site in the moon light.
I remember he said they were like a feathers when flying. 
Last edited by bsa_bob; 05/06/2010 12:21 PM.
