gas filler valves

Edited By Nicholas Farr on 30/12/2010 20:02:03

Edited By Nicholas Farr on 30/12/2010 20:09:20

Andrew I think you will find that the important words are ‘Portable Cylinders’. Your ‘gin bottle in your glider is not portable; it is part of the glider its self. In fact as I remember it aircraft the high pressure side of oxygen systems integral to the point of the pressure regulator.  I think there are no cut off valve on the bottles. One would feel a little foolish if you suddenly needed oxygen and could not get it because you had not switched the system on when you were on the ground.

Edited By Richard Parsons on 31/12/2010 11:11:42

Long years ago the authorities decided to remove a wartime blockhouse. Pneumatic drills just bounced on the concrete. The R.Es said they could not be blown it was too near houses. 

Someone suggested ‘Oxygen lances’. These are long tubes heated white hot at one end and through which you pass Oxygen.. BOC did the job with several 100s of yards of 1 ½ inch pipe Dozen of bottles of Oxygen all manifold with 1 regulator. There was a similar arrangement for the DA which was used to heat up the tubes. The fun started it made Guy ffawlks night seen tame. About every 5 minutes a new pipe was used. About every ½ hour another load of Oxygen and DA was delivered.

The manifolds were all thick copper pipe and were made and sold by BOC for that job

After about ½ a day the block house was reduced to a series of very hot man lift able blocks.

Job done but the blockhouse used to make a good camp for us kids and the local ‘peeler’ knew were we all were.