Here We Go Again!

[Dick W.]

Re: Here We Go Again!

I always liked going into the ammonia refrigeration plants back in the day. Cleared my sinuses.

Until some dummy drills a 1/4" hole in a pipe.....Will cook your sinuses. System in the main plant was somewhere between 300,000# and 500,000# capacity.

[Tom L.]

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Don't forget sulfur dioxide and methyl chloride, they tto worked well but Sulpher dioxide smells like s%^& and methyl chloride burns real good.

When my dad was an apprentice in the 50's he found out the it burns the hard way. He used a halide leak detector, these detect chlorine which is found in CFC refrigerants, by passing gas over a red hot copper element causing it to turn the flame blue. In this case there was no blue, just a boom. His boss told him that he was being taught a valuable lesson, check the name tag on the system and know what refrigerant was in it before checking for leaks.

[Jack H.]

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Dick, I guess when I'm out driving my Corvette with my posterior 2-3 feet fore and just above an 18-gal gas tank, resting my arm on the window sill of the car's fiberglass body, the last thing I'm rationalizing is the native flamability of 3 lbs of refrigerant stored in my supposedly SEALED air conditioning system!!!

[Dick W.]

Re: Here We Go Again!

Dick, I guess when I'm out driving my Corvette with my posterior 2-3 feet fore and just above an 18-gal gas tank, resting my arm on the window sill of the car's fiberglass body, the last thing I'm rationalizing is the native flamability of 3 lbs of refrigerant stored in my supposedly SEALED air conditioning system!!!

The safety police have ruled out several good alternatives, one which had a LEL of 80%.

[Domenic T.]

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Lets see, Global warming? who will pay the gas bill if the sun runs out of gas?
How could a gas reach the ozone layer? Not easy.

Propane is heavier than air and they said it found it's way to the ozone layer.

Well 500 million years ago there was a study, wait maybe it was 600 million.

They tell us this but if they had to make a hole in the ozone layer they wouldn't be able to do it if the Wourld depended on it using all present resources.

The hole in the ozone layer was made by pre historic animals that ate bad food and passed gas while lying on their stomach. believe it or not!

DOM