Have any of you ever seen those oxygen machines? The DANGER: NO SMOKING sign takes up most of unit. They also come with a sign to hang on your front door warning visitors not to smoke inside. I mean, that's like dying because you ignored the giant DANGER: DO NOT USE THIS DEVICE TO MASTURBATE sign on your food processor.

It wouldn't actually be a kaboom, just a loud "whumf" followed by a sizzling sound.

how does a relatively healthy person go about getting an oxygen tank?
/I hear they do wonders for hangovers

'nuff said.

MaxxLarge: An EARTH-shattering...KABOOM. [upload.wikimedia.org image 200x282]


Done in two, leaving satisfied.

Jaws did it first.

/R.I.P. Jaws ride at Universal studios

I prefer kavoom myself.

meh, smoking only kills the weak.

redly1: how does a relatively healthy person go about getting an oxygen tank?
/I hear they do wonders for hangovers

Any welding supply company. Oxygen is oxygen. The "medical grade" stuff is more carefully filtered and cost a lot more. Oxygen for a cutting torch is dirt cheap and works just as well. (I wouldn't recommend breathing it all day every day though - it does have some impurities)

In my machine shop days, the welding booth was the first place everyone went on Monday mornings. Open the valve, take a few deep breaths, and you might make until lunch time when you could head to the nearest bar and grab some hair of the dog.

charlz1085: Jaws did it first.

/R.I.P. Jaws ride at Universal studios

Wasn't it King Kong?

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Yep

A little obscure trivia for Southern Californians: Three of the manmade oil-drilling islands off the coast of Long Beach were named after those guys - the islands were created around the same timeframe when the disaster occurred, The fourth was named after Ted Freeman, who would have been an alternate for the mission but died in a P-38 crash.

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I prefer kavoom myself.

I would like to request the secret source.

Same damn thing happened a bit to the north of there just last weekend. Blewey to the whole apartment. Could have taken someone else out with them, that's the sad part.

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I prefer kavoom myself.

I would like to request the secret source.

There isn't one.

dickfreckle: Have any of you ever seen those oxygen machines? The DANGER: NO SMOKING sign takes up most of the unit.

I always thought it fell under into that "common sense" thing.

The Blind Fury: dickfreckle: Have any of you ever seen those oxygen machines? The DANGER: NO SMOKING sign takes up most of the unit.

I always thought it fell under into that "common sense" thing.

Well that didn't work well.

dickfreckle: Have any of you ever seen those oxygen machines? The DANGER: NO SMOKING sign takes up most of unit. They also come with a sign to hang on your front door warning visitors not to smoke inside. I mean, that's like dying because you ignored the giant DANGER: DO NOT USE THIS DEVICE TO MASTURBATE sign on your food processor.

Oxygen concentrators do not have no smoking signs on them.

Concentrator machines have a small warning label saying do not smoke with in 5 feet of this device while it is operating.

What this guy did, if it was a concentrator, was allow the flame from the lighter to burn through the air hose while it was full of pressurized air with an O2 concentration level of about 85%.

Once the hose caught fire it burned super hot and super fast burning his face, ears, and setting the bedding on fire.

The article says he was using an oxygen tank though and that is almost pure oxygen and those do have big red no smoking signs on them and come with no smoking stickers for doors.

This is KAOS. We don't go ka-frickin-boom.

Wylie Coyote comes to mind.

Well, that guy doesn't sound very bright. I imagine he became somewhat more luminescent before he died, though.

PhiloeBedoe: Visible, invisible. Offensive, inoffensive. Flammable, inflammable? WTF Webster, how many more will you kill?

Oxygen isn't flammable OR inflammable. Or explosive. It does, however, make a dandy oxidizer.

Red Shirt Blues: [2.bp.blogspot.com image 600x860]
Yep

TOO SOON.

Darwin approves

I design oxygen generators for the Navy. This is actual fairly common. Oxygen tends to "soak" into the clothing so even if you stop using oxygen to have a smoke a spark of flame can cause your clothes to go up like a torch.

Old Navy film on oxygen safety, not safe for modern sensibilities Link (new window)

erewhon: Oxygen isn't flammable OR inflammable. Or explosive. It does, however, make a dandy oxidizer.

There are even stronger oxidizers out there. Chlorine trifluoride (ClF₃), for instance, will set sand and asbestos on fire, and that's just the beginning.

soundguy: redly1: how does a relatively healthy person go about getting an oxygen tank?
/I hear they do wonders for hangovers

Any welding supply company. Oxygen is oxygen. The "medical grade" stuff is more carefully filtered and cost a lot more. Oxygen for a cutting torch is dirt cheap and works just as well. (I wouldn't recommend breathing it all day every day though - it does have some impurities)

In my machine shop days, the welding booth was the first place everyone went on Monday mornings. Open the valve, take a few deep breaths, and you might make until lunch time when you could head to the nearest bar and grab some hair of the dog.

What he said. I'm not even sure there are enough impurities to worry about - there certainly aren't any more than granny's 02 generator is putting out.

/Still, don't go around huffing 02 all day. Your body isn't designed for it.

My wife works in a hospital that is primarily end of life care. Most patients are hooked to breathing machines or are on oxygen.

Its pretty routine for patients in the hospital and at home to light cigarettes with the oxygen gear still stuck in their nose. About once a month a patient lights themselves on fire. They all know its going to happen eventually if they keep doing it. Doesnt stop them.

/Cue the easy joke about the poor guy who lights himself on fire every month.

JustGetItRight: soundguy: redly1: how does a relatively healthy person go about getting an oxygen tank?
/I hear they do wonders for hangovers

Any welding supply company. Oxygen is oxygen. The "medical grade" stuff is more carefully filtered and cost a lot more. Oxygen for a cutting torch is dirt cheap and works just as well. (I wouldn't recommend breathing it all day every day though - it does have some impurities)

In my machine shop days, the welding booth was the first place everyone went on Monday mornings. Open the valve, take a few deep breaths, and you might make until lunch time when you could head to the nearest bar and grab some hair of the dog.

What he said. I'm not even sure there are enough impurities to worry about - there certainly aren't any more than granny's 02 generator is putting out.

/Still, don't go around huffing 02 all day. Your body isn't designed for it.

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I did a little research to verify my previous post and it turns out that they don't even supply multiple grades to most distributors any more. I was a machinist in the 70's and there were a couple of different purities back then. That apparently got too expensive so ALL commercial oxygen is "medical grade" now. Distributors fill everything from one big tank. The difference can be in the preparation of the tank. If your welding tank doesn't have any acetylene backwash contamination, they just refill it like a propane jug. If the remnants smell weird or if it's a medical or aviation bottle, they evacuate it first, then fill it. At that point, the difference is the label and the price.

I think most of the contaminants in a welding situation would be from a leaking acetylene valve, soot and other crap splattered all over the torch tip, and rubber hoses that are commonly decades old and may be off-gassing something unpleasant. (think about the taste of water from a garden hose on a hot day)

I've been on oxygen 24/7 for over three years now and never had an accident with it. I DO have no smoking signs on my doors but that's just to keep smoke out of my nose, it's not dangerous. But I LIKE the fact that most people in public think oxygen will cause the room to explode if they smoke. They put out their cigarettes around me. That's a tiny bit of good for them too.
I have gas heat, a gas stove and a gas dryer, no explosions. I have even put the hose up to a Bic lighter and demonstrated what a little butane and oxy can do. It will burn through a coat hanger with a flame only one eighth inch tall. No explosions. But the light it gives off is exciting. You should see what happened when I fed oxy to a MAPP gas torch.
On the other hand, if my house catches fire the eight E tanks and the MM tank will definitely fan the flames if the valves fail.