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05-25-2023, 02:41 PM
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Re: Airco Repair Man on Roof Dies by Exploding Airco
Being it's Vietnam that's payback for all the bombs they rigged on our US troops that died over there.
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05-25-2023, 05:50 PM
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Re: Airco Repair Man on Roof Dies by Exploding Airco
I don’t think it was air conditioner, was probably a torch set on site for soldering the copper tubing. Refrigerant is high pressure but that black smoke looks like acetylene/oxygen torch. A burst hose while torch is lit could cause that. There was a fireball at center when it exploded and refrigerant is NOT flammable. Definitely say torch set did it.
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05-25-2023, 05:59 PM
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Re: Airco Repair Man on Roof Dies by Exploding Airco
I think the guy in black shirt was soldering the copper lines, the torch was behind the AC. Could have gotten distracted by the guy walking up on him and torch burned the oxy/acetylene hoses and exploded. I’ve done that kind of work before and know those hazards.
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05-27-2023, 06:00 AM
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Re: Airco Repair Man on Roof Dies by Exploding Airco
Hate to sound like a know it all, but new AC units use a refrigerant r290. It's liquid state propane and highly explosive. Other dude could have walked over with a lit cigarette or something.
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05-27-2023, 06:03 AM
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Re: Airco Repair Man on Roof Dies by Exploding Airco
It looks like the twisted white case of the unit. The one guy lands in the road. Bad day at work.
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05-27-2023, 06:51 AM
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Re: Airco Repair Man on Roof Dies by Exploding Airco
Ive watched this clip about a dozen times, freeze the shot at 0.14. i think this is a fake!
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05-19-2024, 02:54 AM
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Re: Airco Repair Man on Roof Dies by Exploding Airco
Help me understand this. In foreign countries they use Oxygen and Hydrogen as refrigerants? That's insanity. Can those countries not afford to use a nonflammable refrigerant?
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05-19-2024, 08:09 AM
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Re: Airco Repair Man on Roof Dies by Exploding Airco
There's no oxygen in d refrigerant gas tank just that they are using highly flammable and explosive type of refrigerant gas and got contact with spark may be from short circuit electrical cable.
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05-21-2024, 03:53 AM
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Re: Airco Repair Man on Roof Dies by Exploding Airco
That is an incredibly common misconception. Oxygen is neither flammable nor explosive as evidenced by the fact that you absolutely cannot light pure oxygen on fire. Oxygen happens to make anything that is flammable or explosive much more so but it is not, by itself, going to burn or explode EXCEPT in movies and TV shows.
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