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Posted: Tue Apr 20, 2010 7:29 am Post subject: Re: Transporting Oxy and Acetylene tanks. The official answer is to ALWAYS have your acetylene tank standing up, whether in use or in transport or in storage. Many people do transport acetylene on it's side, but if you choose to do this, let it stand up for at least a couple of hours before you draw from it. Also you'd better be darn sure the tank valve doesn't leak.
Acetylene tanks have fusible plugs designed to melt and release pressure at temperatures over 212 F. Also if you draw acetylene at too fast a rate, the bottle can overheat and explode. The first rule of thumb I heard for this was 1/7 of the bottle capacity per hour. Obviously this is a big issue with small bottles. had a little portable brazing/welding rig. As near as I could tell it had an MC size (10CF) acetylene bottle (8.5 pounds) along with a 20CF oxygen bottle (13 pounds). A good match given that you typically use oxygen at twice the rate as acetylene. And the pair of botles weighs 21.5 pounds, very portable.