Re: dive tanks/hyrda testing

2000-09-12 Thread Dan Pantages
All we need is for the government to hire one university student to look for things they have missed. If we are found you can be they will try and regulate us. This happened in the industry I am in, marine in Canada. What a nightmare! They didn't understand what they were doing but they did no

Re: dive tanks/hyrda testing

2000-09-12 Thread Trent Dowler
Hello Everyone, Although our fuel tanks have the potential to be extremely dangerous, SCUBA tanks are considered a life support item. This in itself induces a lot of goverment restrictions. I don't recommend the following procedure for our steamers but thought it an interesting way to hydro

Re: dive tanks/hyrda testing

2000-09-12 Thread Dan Pantages
It does not work that way. It's pounds per square inch. If the pressure is 500psi and the surface of the inside of the vessel is 1/2 a square inch it only has 250lbs pushing on it. Plus you have now changed back to butane which we know is allot less pressure than propane. It was propane that

Re: dive tanks/hyrda testing

2000-09-12 Thread Dan Pantages
No we don't but if people are going to make heir own propane tanks I would change my mind and say yes, before they try them out around me. Dan > > I'm inclined to think that we are doing enough. We don't need any more > regulations and rules to further complicate our lives. > Or do we? > > J

Re: OT: Diamondhead Extra Curricular Activity

2000-09-12 Thread Dan Pantages
No Art I think you have it correct. That's what your ears do..Pop Pop. Dan - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Multiple recipients of sslivesteam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 12:05 AM Subject: Re: OT: Diamondhead Extra Curricular Activity > I t

Re: dive tanks/hyrda testing

2000-09-12 Thread Geoff Spenceley
Walt and Lunk, You are a Lunkerforous old gentleman who always hits the nail on the head (probably with your head!!) So--Thankyou!! Lunkle Geoff. PS. According to reports, the Hekemian steamup was fantastic--I am so green with envy--hope we get photos! And my freind Bruce Price did a lot -

Re: dive tanks/hyrda testing

2000-09-12 Thread WaltSwartz
Considering that butane lighters are made out of plastic, and the cans that butane is sold in are not really high pressure vessels, we do not need to be too concerned. Let's just let this sleeping dog alone. Keep your steam up! Walt & Lunk

Re: dive tanks/hyrda testing

2000-09-12 Thread Phil. Paskos
In live steam,most clubs insist on hydra testing boilers for anything larger than gauge 1. I don't know if anyone does them. And since Trent brought up hydra testing of Scuba tanks, how about our Butane/propane tanks? Am I opening a can of worms here? Is it necessary? Or is our safety record

Re: Hekemian Steamup

2000-09-12 Thread Jim Curry
Hi guys: It was a wonderful steamup. Three - 2 sided, 3 track, standup steaming bays fed the 48" turntable. Hundreds of feet of sidings/ladders/passing sidings, most filled with waiting trains. Barry Harper had his Coronation Train flashing by wide open, Bruce Price (the other live steamer who

Re: Hekemian Steamup

2000-09-12 Thread Peter Trounce
Walt, Would enjoy seeing photos of the Steamup. Do you know if anyone is likely to be putting pictures up that we can see ? Peter Trounce. -- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: Multiple recipients of sslivesteam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Hekemian Steamup > Date: Monday, September 11, 20

Re: OT: Diamondhead Extra Curricular Activity

2000-09-12 Thread ArtwalkJ98
I thought for a moment you were proposing an alternative to the 'POP POP Regatta' !!! Art Walker