Date:         Thu, 14 Jan 2010 20:14:58 -0800
Reply-To:     neil n <musomuso@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         neil n <musomuso@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: another youtube video of a vanagon westy on fire
Comments: To: miguel pacheco <mundopacheco@gmail.com>
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Didn't know that acronym.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLEVE

Crazy video! That's some serious heat they blast at the tank wall.

As per Pat's comment, I see a "pressure relief valve" shown here on
Manchester's web site:

http://www.mantank.com/products/rvproducts.htm

Not sure if my old Manchester had that built into the main valve body
or somewhere else.

http://tinyurl.com/yccglox

The new tank may have one though.





On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 3:46 PM, miguel pacheco <mundopacheco@gmail.com> wrote:
> You might be describing a BLEVE
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sl-JgyQA7u0&feature=related
> Miguel
>
> 'In heaven all the interesting people are missing.'
>  - Friedrich Nietzsche
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 4:06 PM, neil n <musomuso@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 3:03 PM, neil n <musomuso@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> Or does a tank like that not blow up even when
>>> heated up with flames?
>>
>> Or more to the point:
>>
>> Does LP in an RV tank ever cause the tank to explode when tank exposed
>> to extreme heat for a period of time?
>>
>>
>> --
>> Neil Nicholson '81 VanaJetta 2.0 "Jaco"
>>
>> http://tubaneil.googlepages.com/
>>
>> http://groups.google.com/group/vanagons-with-vw-inline-4-cylinder-gas-engines
>>
>



-- 
Neil Nicholson '81 VanaJetta 2.0 "Jaco"

http://tubaneil.googlepages.com/

http://groups.google.com/group/vanagons-with-vw-inline-4-cylinder-gas-engines