Toyota FJ vs Acetylene Bottle

I normally don't like straight linking from other forum but I thought the welders on here would get a kick out of this.

From somewhere in Canada.

http://www.fjcruiserforums.com/forum...literally.html

Note the roof laying beside the truck. More photos of the busted ass interior on this page:
http://www.fjcruiserforums.com/forum...terally-6.html


http://www.fjcruiserforums.com/forum...y-img_0177.jpg

http://www.fjcruiserforums.com/forum...y-img_0183.jpg

http://www.fjcruiserforums.com/forum...y-img_0187.jpg

Not sure how the car would be that mangled and he didn't get killed

umm... wow
reading through he said hos door was open, only thing i can imagine is the seat diffused the blast around him and out the door.....

This is the very reason I don't have an acetylene torch at home. I'm just not comfortable having a bottle of it in my attached garage. It's really dangerous stuff.

I'm trying to get my wife to understand this so I can go by a plasma cutter. Not working so far... ::Bop::

I read about that over on IH8MUD. It is good that the owner is OK. I hope his hearing loss is not permanent.

I noticed this link somewhere in that thread: http://www.msha.gov/alerts/hazardsofacetylene.htm It seems that acetylene is exceptionally unstable. I will move my cutting tanks outside next time I am welding in the garage.