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Stinkpotter
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Djibouti
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Initially Posted - 06/14/2012 : 06:55:29

Watch the video in [url="http://www.soundingsonline.com/dispatches/288504-video-fiery-forensics"]this article[/url] to see the result of a propane leak in a boat. Gasoline fumes can produce a similar result.

Dave Bristle
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JeanAndre
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Response Posted - 06/14/2012 : 09:04:34

That is also an awesome way for people who part boats to get rid of the hull!!!! =D

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dmpilc
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Response Posted - 06/14/2012 : 11:32:40

Except that you still have a bunch of very big pieces to pick up. Good way to bust it up, however!

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Response Posted - 06/14/2012 : 11:37:01

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by JeanAndre
 That is also an awesome way for people who part boats to get rid of the hull!!!! =D
<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">Look again. The hull survived. the deck was blown off.

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delliottg
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Response Posted - 06/14/2012 : 11:52:53

Wow!

The Mythbusters should use this method next time they need to make Trireme instead of spending so much time cutting off the decks & houses. They like big booms ("Jamie wants big boom") and that certainly fits the bill.

Amazing that it can take a few thousand pounds and toss it around like a rag doll. It even lifted the boat completely off it's cradle, and if the keel is anything like ours on a Dufour 27, that's gotta be more than half a ton of solid lead in the keel.

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Voyager
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Response Posted - 06/14/2012 : 21:22:16

Awesome video - doesn't take much fuel to create a big blast!

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awetmore
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Response Posted - 06/15/2012 : 06:31:30

It works again

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redeye
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Response Posted - 06/15/2012 : 06:33:11

At one time in Florida if we left bic lighters out in the car in the summer... we would find pieces of it dispersed.

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Response Posted - 06/15/2012 : 08:57:46

And it only takes a lb. of propane to do it. That's one cannister. I once after cooking on our C25 removed the bottle in the cabin and the valve stuck. I threw it overboard. A properly installed propane system is so much safer, now that I have one. I'd love to see a 2.5 lb. propane tank mod for a C25 with a real two burner gimballed stove. Port cockpit locker fitted with a vented propane box... That would stop the switching bottles halfway thru the omelet problem.

sten

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Stinkpotter
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Response Posted - 06/15/2012 : 10:12:21

The properly installed system--I believe by ABYC standards--includes a thermocouple at the burner, connected to a valve at the tank that shuts off if the thermocouple doesn't detect heat. I've seen this on factory-installed systems on C-250s and other boats.

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britinusa
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Response Posted - 06/15/2012 : 17:04:58

We just replaced our princess stove, the thermocouple would not allow the gas to the burner, so it would not light at all. The cost of the repair plus shipping toCA. was so close to the price of a new one that the plus the value of the warranty made the decision easy.

We don't screw around when it comes to the cooker.

That video says it all.

Paul

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redviking
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Response Posted - 06/17/2012 : 19:12:10

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by britinusa
 We just replaced our princess stove, the thermocouple would not allow the gas to the burner, so it would not light at all. The cost of the repair plus shipping toCA. was so close to the price of a new one that the plus the value of the warranty made the decision easy.

We don't screw around when it comes to the cooker.

That video says it all.

Paul

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I always kill the gas at the switch and make sure the burner goes out, especially if I just used the oven. This practice also clears the lines.

sten

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