YSaC, Vol. 1585: I’m anti-pain. Or at least anti T-Pain.

2013 August 23

7′ propane tank – $100


7′ by 2 1/2′ Propane tank. I do not think it is serviceable as a propane tank, but would be great to make into a smoker, water trough, or perhaps a one man submarine (if your the adventure type). $100 or best offer. Call, Email, text ### ####. If you e-mail put Submarine in the subject line so I can avoid spammers. Thanks have a groovy day.


A propane tank. Meaning it used to contain propane. Meaning it very likely still has some residual material in it.

Let’s consult our good friend, Mr. Materials Safety Data Sheet, shall we?

Danger! Flammable liquid gas. Keep away from heat, sparks, and all other ignition sources.

OK, maybe the smoker isn’t such a good idea.

Vapor replaces oxygen available for breathing and may cause suffocation in confined spaces.

That submarine idea sure sounds great, now, doesn’t it?

Well, I guess that leaves water trough. I’ll just get out my acetylene torch here and cut that in…

Oh. Well, as WH said when he submitted it: “Yeah, I guess that’s about the right size for a coffin.”

36 Responses leave one →
  1. 2013 August 23

    Wow, that last picture looks… Rather suggestive. You’d have to be a, uhm, film star (and a giant mutant film star at that) to use it in that particular way, though, so there’s another idea out the window.

    Aaand back to the corner for me.

    Adores: 2
    • 2013 August 23
      MissMommyNiceNice permalink

      I’ll join you, it was my first thought too…

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    • 2013 August 23
      Meg permalink

      That first pic reminded me of a dead, bloated pig.
      I instinctively ran outside to see if the swingset had room for it.

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  2. 2013 August 23
    Ralph permalink

    Tanks, but no tanks. I’m anti-pane.

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    • 2013 August 23
      Ralph permalink

      Sorry, I’m asleep. I should read the captions before posting.

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  3. 2013 August 23
    MissMommyNiceNice permalink

    You know what this submarine needs? More snails! That would really make that s car go!

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  4. 2013 August 23

    Well…ummm….it’s storytime? I work at a power plant, and we have tanks of all sizes, shapes, colors, and filled with all sorts of things that go boom, or will kill you if you crawl inside and think you can breathe, too.

    Anyway, this one day at band camp….

    No, wait, different story.

    So, this one time we had a rather large propane tank – looked like the one above, only less rusty – that we decided would make an excellent smoker.

    I am not making this up, kids.

    The highly trained monkeys I work with decided to cut it in half on the horizontal.

    It was only by the grace of the bees that just as the torch was lit one of them remembered their training and said it’d probably be a good idea to vent the tank to the atmosphere first.

    The cap was removed, and the unmistakeable odor of rotten eggs filled the immediate vicinity.

    Yep, I work with some geniuses.

    Many days later an air monitor was lowered into the tank, and it was deemed safe to put the torch to it. They did, and after much configuring and arguing over design, we have Old Number 9 out in the back forty. It’s been used a number of times and the food has been delicious.

    /endstorytime

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    • 2013 August 23
      CapnMac permalink

      [corey]There is a safe-practices procedure for cutting these tanks (if more used in the NE for chopping home heating
      Check for tank fill.
      If not empty, have it emptied.
      Check that fill, supply, & drains are closed.
      Rig a hand torch near the vent. Light off same.
      Open vent.
      Use a diffuser torch (or space heater) to gently warm the lower portion of the tank. This is maintained to a chart listing per volitile fuel used in the tank.
      This flashes off any volitiles in the tank leaving nothing but warm air in the tank.

      Alternately, where no regulatory agencies with over-twisted underthings will go apoplexic-, and for propane/lng only, you fire up an air compressor (upwind); open every valve on the tank; then introduce HP air (60-100psi) into the tank for 10-15 minutes.

      Note–do not use the O2 tank on the welding cart for this; then use the acetelene to cut the tank, the results are bad.
      [corey]

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  5. 2013 August 23
    MissMommyNiceNice permalink

    Submarine Spam is the name of my Lumineers cover band.

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  6. 2013 August 23

    In the town where I was born
    Lived a man with a spare tank
    That could be a submarine,
    But beware in case it sank.

    But we bought it anyway.
    It was rusty and bluish-green.
    And we dreamed of happy times
    In our propane submarine.

    We all died in a propane submarine,
    Propane submarine, propane submarine.
    We all died in a propane submarine,
    Propane submarine, propane submarine.

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  7. 2013 August 23

    Wish I could turn this into a submarine, but I’m already underwater with all my commitments.

    Adores: 4
  8. 2013 August 23

    I’ll take it! It would make a wonderful “capsule car” for my giant digestive tract funhouse.

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    • 2013 August 23
      Demon Duck of Doom permalink

      You mean a suppositank?

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  9. 2013 August 23
    mudslicker permalink

    Use it as a

    water trough

    Just add a Bic lighter and you can have your own personal little fracking experiment as you catch your cattle’s faces on fire.

    Adores: 3
    • 2013 August 23
      CapnMac permalink

      [observational corey]
      I may have seen every possible adaptive reuse a person can put a 100-120 USG propane tank to. But, not once have I seen one used for a watering trough.

      Which probably reflects the need for such things to not have sharp or jagged edges which could injure or entangle livestock.
      [corey]

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    • 2013 August 23
      Bratty Innocence permalink

      mudslicker…..
      Why hold back, dude???? Say it like you mean it, dude….
      “Just add a fracking Bic lighter and you can have your fracking own personal little fracking experiment as you fracking catch your fracking cattle’s faces on fracking fire.”

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  10. 2013 August 23

    “Ah sell pro-pane, an’ pro-pane accessories.”

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    • 2013 August 23
      MissMommyNiceNice permalink

      Pro-pane is the name of my House of Pain cover band.

      Adores: 2
  11. 2013 August 23

    Like periscopes?

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    • 2013 August 23
      nojazzhere permalink

      Sure, I like periscopes…

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      • 2013 August 23

        Then you’ll love Periscope Crisp, the only breakfast cereal featuring real pieces of periscope from decommissioned navy submarines!

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  12. 2013 August 23
    HamCan permalink

    Worlds biggest Tylenol.

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  13. 2013 August 23

    Ignoring the certainty of fiery death upon cutting a hole in this giant suppository without guidance from C…J’s super-genius team of co-irkers, I’m trying to figure out how to configure a tube with diameter of 2 and a half feet into a functional, reusable submarine and not just a burial-at-sea submarine. Sure, there’s gotta be a plexiglass bubble on top for sightseeing around the honeymoon suites of underwater hotels, but that still leaves very little room for the mechanics, the air ballast tanks, the fuel, the engine, and that trivial thing known as breathable air. I guess I’m just not the visionary type along the likes of Henry Ford, Nicola Tesla, and Elon Musk, whose name sounds to me more like the latest men’s cologne extracted from the scent glands of Swedish rodents than the name of a genius business entrepeneur.

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    • 2013 August 23

      Swedish Rodents is my ABBA-Modest Mouse mash-up band.

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      • 2013 August 23
        MissMommyNiceNice permalink

        I would pay good vintage cereal to beverage and see this band!

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    • 2013 August 23
      nojazzhere permalink

      Should be marketing this as a single-use smoker….That way no one has to worry about venting fumes…or product liability..

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    • 2013 August 23
      CapnMac permalink

      Curiously, Spark’ does use “submarine” rather than “submersible”–no doubt accidentally swerving into accurately descibing a single-use, rather than repetitive-use device.

      After all, an anchor is a submarine, just not a submersible vehicle.

      The tough part about making this into some sort of underwater vehicle, is that, sealed-up dry, it displaces 34 c.f., or 2130 pounds. this is a large amount of weight to bolt on.

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  14. 2013 August 23
    limelolly permalink

    have a groovy day

    Uh, right on, dude.

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  15. 2013 August 24

    Dave, ferrets, nojazzie, well, here we are. Right back where we started from. Punchity Punch Punch!

    Good Morning, Jokers!

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