When I was a lad I worked in a garage and car breakers yard. If there were no repairs to be done I was told to take the oxy-propane torch and cut scrapped cars into smaller bits for transport. I was warned to always, always, fill the fuel tank with water before going near the car with a lit flame...
My son is a welder/fabricator and so has often been called to do car repairs. He never starts welding without carpets and upholstery kept clear and a mug - usually me - leaning over the back of the job with a squirty bottle of water to stop that kind of chaos before it starts. In years past, of course, I knew better. While gas welding the sill on my Corsair I looked up to see the dashboard melting because the A pillar had acted as a chimney for the flame . . .
DJ - that sounds like a very useful piece of advice about the petrol tank. I'm not sure what the equivalent advice might be for an electric car.
Sam - I was surprised that nobody noticed sooner. Id expect some kind of flickering in the corner of the eye to have caused heads to turn much earlier.
Scrobs - maybe the chap who got there first was the first to realise it could get much, much worse.
Jannie - it's personal experience. Unless we make a mess of things a few times, we don't really learn what it is to make a mess of things however often we're warned beforehand.
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When I was a lad I worked in a garage and car breakers yard. If there were no repairs to be done I was told to take the oxy-propane torch and cut scrapped cars into smaller bits for transport. I was warned to always, always, fill the fuel tank with water before going near the car with a lit flame...
I love the way blokes are just standing around chatting and nobody notices until it gets to borderline inferno.
I was hoping that opening the rear door was going to be really spectacular when the air got in, but it seems the windows were open already.
The chap who gets there first was a pretty brave character!
Now I know what 'Third Party, Fire and Theft' really stands for!
My son is a welder/fabricator and so has often been called to do car repairs. He never starts welding without carpets and upholstery kept clear and a mug - usually me - leaning over the back of the job with a squirty bottle of water to stop that kind of chaos before it starts. In years past, of course, I knew better. While gas welding the sill on my Corsair I looked up to see the dashboard melting because the A pillar had acted as a chimney for the flame . . .
DJ - that sounds like a very useful piece of advice about the petrol tank. I'm not sure what the equivalent advice might be for an electric car.
Sam - I was surprised that nobody noticed sooner. Id expect some kind of flickering in the corner of the eye to have caused heads to turn much earlier.
Scrobs - maybe the chap who got there first was the first to realise it could get much, much worse.
Jannie - it's personal experience. Unless we make a mess of things a few times, we don't really learn what it is to make a mess of things however often we're warned beforehand.
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