Removing an old grill from my backyard

[Mike_Yates]

I've got a very old (10 years) propane grill I want to remove from my backyard because it is far too rusted and damaged to use.

The propane tank (which is still full), is very badly damaged and rusted. I'm afraid that if I try to move the grill, the thing could explode.

What do I do?

 

[Wobnoid]

Risk it.

 

[Saint Peter]

Other than surface rust, how is the propane cylinder damaged?

 

[emap]

Oh good grief, if you are able, open up the valve and let the gas out, lit is preferable but if you are that scared of it blowing up just empty it into the air.

 

[Saint Peter]

Oh good grief, if you are able, open up the valve and let the gas out, lit is preferable but if you are that scared of it blowing up just empty it into the air.

:ciggy:

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Good lord...




Dollparts, sweety, there's no way we believe that you are actually this stupid.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

:ciggy:

Celestial Ignore?



wtf; you Dollparts too?

 

[Saint Peter]

Celestial Ignore?



wtf; you Dollparts too?

No. What happened to your brain? Are you snorting more than you are cooking?

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

No. What happened to your brain? Are you snorting more than you are cooking?

wtf is :ciggy: supposed to represent?



Post-coitus?

 

[phrodeau]

:ciggy:

Need a light?

 

[rosco rathbone]

Make sure to keep all open flames, electrical motors and static electricity sources away from the tank. Do not strike the tank with tools made of ferrous material.

 

[Saint Peter]

Need a light?

Yates did not elaboryate. What is a damaged cylinder? A little rust on the outside? No biggy. The manufacture knows the thing is going to be left outside and abused. Hit with a sledge hammer? Different story.

I say light the fucker and let it burn all day. Maybe roast a dog or two. Make smores. Toss it in the trash on Monday.

 

[Saint Peter]

Make sure to keep all open flames, electrical motors and static electricity sources away from the tank. Do not strike the tank with tools made of ferrous material.

Pussy!

 

[Peregrinator]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JW_K3cnXxW4

 

[phrodeau]

I've got a very old (10 years) propane grill I want to remove from my backyard because it is far too rusted and damaged to use.

The propane tank (which is still full), is very badly damaged and rusted. I'm afraid that if I try to move the grill, the thing could explode.

What do I do?

Wait another six years. By then it will rust through and leak empty on its own.

 

[LadyFairfax]

According to most research, the only danger associated with an old rusty propane tank is that it will add its propane to the atmosphere through leakage, raising the total of greenhouse gasses one part per trillion above the stability level and global climate change will accelerate from its current slow pace into a drastic death spiral complete with super storms, desertification of the arctic and of course, the extinction of the puffin (a penguin like bird found only along the North Atlantic coast), which would be a disaster beyond the pale and lead to the death of mankind (of whom hopefully the English will perish first, being the causes of all evil in the world).

I think Joyce still has the record.

 

[ivantheterrible]

wonder what mike will be paranoid about next?

 

[semen4her]

Propane tanks will not explode from rust.

You could throw it in a fire and the relief valve would expell the rising pressures, you would get a nice flame thrower but no boom.

Just wheel the whole thing to the curb and move on with life.

 

[Image]

Whatever you do, replace it with charcoal. Gas grills suck!

 

[Colonel Hogan]

How did you fill the tank before? Did you take the whole grill on the back of a pick-up truck to the gas retailer?

Most tanks attach to the grill by way of a threaded flange. Shut the flow of gas off at the tank. Unscrew (lefty-loosy) the threaded flange to release the tank.

After taking the gas tank well away from your house, reopen the valve and vent into the air.

 

[Saint Peter]

How did you fill the tank before? Did you take the whole grill on the back of a pick-up truck to the gas retailer?

Most tanks attach to the grill by way of a threaded flange. Shut the flow of gas off at the tank. Unscrew (lefty-loosy) the threaded flange to release the tank.

After taking the gas tank well away from your house, reopen the valve and vent into the air.

Actually, propane is a fuel gas. There are left handed threads on fuel gas cylinders to prevent the possibility of hooking the fuel up to the oxygen, or verse vise-a.

Propane is righty loosey, lefty tighty.

There is a notch "filed" into most left handed threaded nuts to distinguish them from typical right handed nuts.

 

[thør]

I say, fire it up and pour some LOX on it. (No, not the salmon kind) This will kill two birds with one stone.

 

[great lover]

get a solar powered grill next.

 

[BossMan62]

Looks like you have some good advise Mikey, now use it and everything should be A OK.

 

[Very_Bad_Man]

Call 911 and alert the bomb squad.