oxygen tank for torch keeps popping

[rbh]

the oxygen regulator keeps popping off, can this be pulled apart and fixed?

 

[mla2ofus]

Re: oxygen tank for torch keeps popping

What do you mean? Does the low side pressure keep building up or what??
Mike

 

[puddle jumper]

Re: oxygen tank for torch keeps popping

No get a new one as you are working with very high psi. Also find out why its doing that.

 

[rbh]

Re: oxygen tank for torch keeps popping

I speculate a pin hole in the diaphram.

 

[DECK SWABBER 58]

Re: oxygen tank for torch keeps popping

YEP, all regulators have some sort of diaphragm. Unless it's a high quality piece,
I would be surprised if you could find parts for it. But you never know, worth a
shot I suppose.
By chance is it made in C***a?

Hope it's not Craftsman. Tried to replace a part on a cutting torch once,
after multiple attempts with a "nice" lady pointing at pictures, who had no
clue what a cutting torch was, I gave up.

Still have that old torch though.

 

[puddle jumper]

Re: oxygen tank for torch keeps popping

The more I think about it I don,t think there serviceable any way.

 

[rbh]

Re: oxygen tank for torch keeps popping

YEP, all regulators have some sort of diaphragm. Unless it's a high quality piece,
I would be surprised if you could find parts for it. But you never know, worth a
shot I suppose.
By chance is it made in C***a?

Hope it's not Craftsman. Tried to replace a part on a cutting torch once,
after multiple attempts with a "nice" lady pointing at pictures, who had no
clue what a cutting torch was, I gave up.

Still have that old torch though.

Was that C***a? for "china" or "Canada", think it n***H A******n, but my spelling sucks

 

[Splat]

Re: oxygen tank for torch keeps popping

What ever you do, DO NOT USE ANY GREASE if you take it apart and re-assemble

Bill

 

[HappierWet]

Re: oxygen tank for torch keeps popping

The local gas distibutor/ weld shop will probably be able to point you in the right direction. Our regulators were rebuilt @ 6 years ago. I've never taken one apart but I understand the process is " delicate ".
I am curious about what you mean by popping off though,...are the threads stripped?

 

[rbh]

Re: oxygen tank for torch keeps popping

The local gas distibutor/ weld shop will probably be able to point you in the right direction. Our regulators were rebuilt @ 6 years ago. I've never taken one apart but I understand the process is " delicate ".
I am curious about what you mean by popping off though,...are the threads stripped?

No, what seems to be happening is the vent port on the side of the regulator blows after awhile.

 

[j_martin]

Re: oxygen tank for torch keeps popping

Don't play around with that. There's enough pressure in an oxygen tank to do serious damage. When I was in the Navy, on a tender in Charleston, I saw an idiot do down the gangplank with an unsecured oxygen 288 on a wheeler. When he got to the bottom, the tank jumped off the cart, and the end of the gangway knocked the valve off.

It went across pier papa, through a couple of feet of reinforced concrete, and stuck into the side of a destroyer like an arrow in a target. If it hadn't encountered the concrete first, it would have gone clean through the can.

 

[ezbtr]

Re: oxygen tank for torch keeps popping

Ive gotten bad tanks in the past, return for new one!

 

[ddrieck]

Re: oxygen tank for torch keeps popping

Regulators can be rebuilt if the parts are available and they are a quality regulator like "Victor". However, they must be reconditioned by a competent repair facility. Two that come to mind are Air Gas and Gases Plus. We have both here in Casper, WY and I believe they are a nation wide company. Links to both:

Air Gas http://airgas.com/

Gases Plus http://www.gasesplus.com/index.php?Home

 

[rbh]

Re: oxygen tank for torch keeps popping

Well it got fixed, I guess over time the seat under the diaphram wears there fore will not hold the preasure, and does a blow out through a port.
they cleaned it up nice, installed 2 new gauges, works great, $70.91

 

[mla2ofus]

Re: oxygen tank for torch keeps popping

Well it got fixed, I guess over time the seat under the diaphram wears there fore will not hold the preasure, and does a blow out through a port.
they cleaned it up nice, installed 2 new gauges, works great, $70.91

Thanks for letting everyone know what the problem was. The way your thread was titled was leading some of us to think it was a problem w/ the tank.
Mike

 

[HappierWet]

Re: oxygen tank for torch keeps popping

Glad to hear it was an easy fix.
Did you only do the Oxygen, or include the Acetylene for preventative maintanence?

 

[rbh]

Re: oxygen tank for torch keeps popping

Glad to hear it was an easy fix.
Did you only do the Oxygen, or include the Acetylene for preventative maintanence?

no just the oxy, no issues with the acetylene, "yet"