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I'm just making a doorbell out of an old co2 cylinder makes a change from propane bottles.
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I'm just making a doorbell out of an old co2 cylinder makes a change from propane bottles.
Back in the 80s i was working in a boatyard at old leigh, the boss bought a beat up old fishing boat to do up.
She was on the slipway & was half full of ballast in the form of concrete kerbstones. While emptying her of these we came across a large Co2 cylinder, it must have been in there donkeys years. Anyway we heaved it over the side & went to lunch. After lunch the tide had come in rather more & was well over the old cylinder. We resumed heaving ballast out & over the side until there was a muffled whoomph & what appeared to be a whale farting for some minutes. Of course one of the kebstones had knocked the valve off.
Im surprised it had never burst through corrosion.
She was on the slipway & was half full of ballast in the form of concrete kerbstones. While emptying her of these we came across a large Co2 cylinder, it must have been in there donkeys years. Anyway we heaved it over the side & went to lunch. After lunch the tide had come in rather more & was well over the old cylinder. We resumed heaving ballast out & over the side until there was a muffled whoomph & what appeared to be a whale farting for some minutes. Of course one of the kebstones had knocked the valve off.
Im surprised it had never burst through corrosion.
