[MBZ] DIY AC repair in modern times

[John Berryman]

On Jun 13, 2006, at 3:10 PM, Mitch Haley wrote:

> The gas dealers always have come pictures on the wall of cars which  
> had leaky acetylene
> tanks in the trunk, most impressive. A garbage bag full of the  
> stuff can take a the
> windows out of a few houses. I once drove home from Chicago with a  
> couple pair of
> tanks in the passenger compartment with me (never in the trunk). If  
> I'd smelled
> anything like almonds, I would have pulled over, left the door  
> open, and run like
> heck.

	I knew a young guy who worked for his father's scrap/roll-off  
dumpster business. He had oxygen and acetylene bottles in the cab of  
his Mack heading into manhattan on the Williamsburgh Bridge. Anyone  
who is familiar with driving on this bridge knows that there is a  
"jog" in the roadway where some of the structure must be driven around.
	This kid hit the structural steel and a few other large immovable  
objects and the tanks exploded. The driver was tall and obese, small  
parts of him were found in the wreckage but nothing anyone would  
recognize as being Dave Jr. or part of any human, for that matter.
	I have transported tanks several times in an unsafe manner but never  
again after that wake-up call.

Johnny B.
I Mac Therefore I am