Who was the poster who asked General if it would be safe to cut up an oil tank

[Malcolm Buggeridge]

It was Pachers

I've just bought a Titan 1300L oil tank.

It's to replace a metal tank who h is showing sins of weepage.

My question is this. To dispose of the metal tank I propose to cut it up with an angle grinder and take it to the scrappy.

My concern regards the flammabiluty of any residual oil contained within with respect to the sparks generated by the grinder.

If it were petrol I know I'd definitely have a problem here but is domestic heating oil so volatile?

Haven't heard from him for a while hope he's ok

[moggy]

My brother, whos a welder, did the same. Luckily not hurt but the car in question did catch fire.

Welding someone's petrol tank to pass the mot as an on the side job. Of course, thought it would be OK if there was no petrol in there.

Not the sharpest tool in the box my brother, you can see who had all the brains in my family!

Your sister?

[psychocandy]

My brother, whos a welder, did the same. Luckily not hurt but the car in question did catch fire.

Welding someone's petrol tank to pass the mot as an on the side job. Of course, thought it would be OK if there was no petrol in there.

Not the sharpest tool in the box my brother, you can see who had all the brains in my family!

[TimberWolf]

IIRC fumes are at their most potent in rarefied concentrations, something like 5%. i.e. a seemingly empty drum.

[Sysman]

Candidate 1: Sysman

http://forums.contractoruk.com/gener...ml#post1081414

Nah. You just need to be in the supermarket when the first butter hits the shelves after a shortage of several weeks. Buy a case or two of the stuff and distribute it to selected friends and colleagues. They will make one of these barbies for you.

Serious answer: you rinse the oil drum out with some kind of detergent first. Oil tankers have a real problem with fumes left in an empty tank, so do something similar, but on a grander scale.

Candidate 2: The Lone Gunman - we haven't heard from him in ages.

http://forums.contractoruk.com/gener...tml#post229261

I think he flounced, came back, then flounced again.

[mudskipper]

Candidate 3: http://forums.contractoruk.com/gener...-disposal.html

Makes sense. Seems he's still around though.

[Bacchus]

Candidate 1: Sysman

http://forums.contractoruk.com/gener...ml#post1081414

Candidate 2: The Lone Gunman - we haven't heard from him in ages.

http://forums.contractoruk.com/gener...tml#post229261

Candidate 3: http://forums.contractoruk.com/gener...-disposal.html

[BrilloPad]

Darwinism in action.

[mudskipper]

Candidate 1: Sysman

http://forums.contractoruk.com/gener...ml#post1081414

Candidate 2: The Lone Gunman - we haven't heard from him in ages.

http://forums.contractoruk.com/gener...tml#post229261

[MarillionFan]

BBC News - Man dies after Horspath barbecue explosion

I'd like to change my answer from No to Yes.