Steel wool?  Magnesium?

You might want to point out that they should use real steel - common
'steel wool' may simply make the problem worse as its made of fine spun
magnesium - rather flammable and difficult to put out.

-Adam.

Peter L. Peres wrote:

>On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Spehro Pefhany wrote:
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>>At 12:54 PM 6/25/02 -0500, you wrote:
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>>>Don't think I will try, but according to the instructor,
>>>you can weld tanks which have already had fuel in them,
>>>by filling them with water.
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>>I've heard of steam cleaning plus filling them with CO2.
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>Filling with nitrogen, steam, or *COLD* engine *exhaust* gas.
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>>People have died doing things like this.
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>>Say, anyone have any first hand knowledge of flashback arrestor design?
>>I'm trying to cob one together for a small Hyrogen-Oxygen torch.
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>Not first hand but in general small holes do that. A porous ceramic gas
>filter and/or steel wool trapped in an inline fixture should do it.
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>Peter
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