Using a flame is a very old way of testing. A pipe fitter friend told me after installing my gas lines that if there is a leak It would only flare up at that point. Since there is only about 3 pounds of pressure there is not enough gas to cause a problem. Since then they use a vacuum test for new installs prior to charging the line. A vacuum must be held for 24 hours. If it fails there is a leak in the line. When he added on to the line, a few years later, for my dryer, he used an electronic sniffer to test for a leak. He still prefers the Zippo lighter method but it upsets too many people. My wife was one of these. Now if he went into a place and smelled gas he would first turn it off at the meter ventilate the area then charge the line and use the sniffer. In this scenario there would be a substantial gas build up. The flame would cause the problem that he described as two guys passing a few hundred feet in the air. The one yelled do you know anything about parachutes and the other yelled no! do you know anything about gas grills. Lenny, Please visit my home page http://www.geocities.com/lenny_mchugh/ It is motivational, educational, humorous and has a lot of resources.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Cy Selfridge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, April 26, 2008 1:59 PM Subject: RE: [BlindHandyMan] do you really want to be a plumber? David, Now, I know you are going to think that I am a liar - but - one of the local plumbers tests for leaks by lighting a rolled newspaper and passes it around the new connection. The first time I saw him do this I was headed for some other place to be! I suppose that so long as there was not a build up of gas this is probably safe but, no thanks folks. The soap you spoke of is something like Dawn dishwashing soap. It will do a great job of bubbling up if there is a leak. Cy, the Ancient Okie.... _____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Ferrin Sent: Saturday, April 26, 2008 7:12 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] do you really want to be a plumber? How do you test for a gas leak my friend? I've watch plumbers rub soap on the connections and look for bubbles. David Ferrin www.jaws-users.-com ----- Original Message ----- From: "martin webster" <HYPERLINK "mailto:webstermartin%40yahoo.com"[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <HYPERLINK "mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com"[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, April 26, 2008 6:59 AM Subject: [BlindHandyMan] do you really want to be a plumber? > Hi, > I think the answer to this question is yes and know. Plumbers work on > many different > sites and in many different locations in one week, and this you would have > a problem > with as a totally blind individual. I do much work for family and good > friends, and the kind of work I do is plumb > in washing machines, dish washers, move radiators, move sinks, install > outside taps, > and much more. You could certainly learn to master many of the techniques > involved > in plumbing even soldering won't be a problem if you feel you can cope > with it. > There are different levels of training for this profession and not all > plumbers take > them all, for instance if you want to train to install and maintain gas > appliances > such as fires, boilers, kilns and spa systems, then that's a different > level of > training again. I do all the maintance myself On my own combination > theating and > hot water system, and then pay to have it gas tested after woulds. I all > so have a carbonmonoxcide detector installed near the appliance. Safety > is Paramount when dealing with gas. I have never > had a problem though working in this way, and feel totally comfortable > doing this type of > work as a totally blind man. Again, with soldering I have know problems, > I use a > T500 turbo torch which burns butane, propane, or mapp gas depending on > what I'm doing. > Just use really good turbo mats and I mean really good ones and you will > be fine. All so remember to totally purge any gas pipe work that you are > about to solder, I kid you not. > Again I feel very comfortable with this kind of work and tooling, and I > cannot stress this > enough. If your not comfortable with any of this forget the whole thing. > I do own a water filled manometer, which my sighted girl friend reads to > me, and this I use for checking gas pressures. The talking multimeter > from > Germany > can check pressures, but I don't know how useful it would be for this type > of work. > I've never examined one so I couldn't say. So to sum all this up, you > could learn to do the work in an environment you new, and to a very high > standard too, but I think not in the real world. 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