Browse Forums General Discussion Re: How often do you check your BBQ Gas Bottle Fittings??? 4Dec 14, 2009 7:14 am 'A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.' Louis Pasteur Vegie garden: viewtopic.php?f=19&t=27637&start=0 My Backyard Adventure Re: How often do you check your BBQ Gas Bottle Fittings??? 5Dec 14, 2009 7:40 am mmm....donuts Homer Simpson 1956- Links: Site Costs Ready Reckoner | H1 Addiction Medical Advice | Château TDL: The Backyard Re: How often do you check your BBQ Gas Bottle Fittings??? 6Dec 14, 2009 7:48 am 'A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.' Louis Pasteur Vegie garden: viewtopic.php?f=19&t=27637&start=0 My Backyard Adventure Re: How often do you check your BBQ Gas Bottle Fittings??? 7Dec 14, 2009 7:55 am mmm....donuts Homer Simpson 1956- Links: Site Costs Ready Reckoner | H1 Addiction Medical Advice | Château TDL: The Backyard Re: How often do you check your BBQ Gas Bottle Fittings??? 8Dec 14, 2009 8:13 am 'A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.' Louis Pasteur Vegie garden: viewtopic.php?f=19&t=27637&start=0 My Backyard Adventure Re: How often do you check your BBQ Gas Bottle Fittings??? 9Dec 14, 2009 8:23 am mmm....donuts Homer Simpson 1956- Links: Site Costs Ready Reckoner | H1 Addiction Medical Advice | Château TDL: The Backyard Re: How often do you check your BBQ Gas Bottle Fittings??? 11Dec 14, 2009 9:15 am Also don’t forget to clean out the drip tray regularly. Unfortunately my pork spare ribs pushed a friends barbie over the limit with fat overload, resulting in the drip tray catching fire and destroying the BBQ. Truly scary time of trying to get the gas bottle disconnected while the BBQ was burning. While this event has made a very memorable moment and is retold at each subsequent BBQ event (and even scrapbooked by his DW for prosperity), I have now definately been banned from bringing pork spare ribs again. Maurita, I too thought the gas bottle was going to explode, not an event I would like to experience again. Thanks for the reminder to check everything again before Xmas. Re: How often do you check your BBQ Gas Bottle Fittings??? 12Dec 14, 2009 9:31 am kazza Unfortunately my pork spare ribs pushed a friends barbie over the limit with fat overload, resulting in the drip tray catching fire and destroying the BBQ. Yum...flame grill. mmm....donuts Homer Simpson 1956- Links: Site Costs Ready Reckoner | H1 Addiction Medical Advice | Château TDL: The Backyard Re: How often do you check your BBQ Gas Bottle Fittings??? 13Dec 14, 2009 9:44 am He now owns a very smicko BBQ which he even cooks the family roast in. And most importantly checks the drip tray regularly. I'm surprisingly still invited over. Re: How often do you check your BBQ Gas Bottle Fittings??? 14Dec 14, 2009 2:28 pm Ok so now i am confused. I found this article on the internet today. Please read the following - *TWO hundred people were evacuated from a city apartment block tonight after a barbecue gas bottle caught fire and another threatened to explode. Firefighters were concerned about a second gas bottle which could explode next to the burning bottle. Two firefighters in breathing apparatus used a hose on the bottle for 20 minutes to extinguish the fire before the gas could safely be turned off* Mmmm so could ours have exploded or not is the question???? I want to know the answer to this for future reference if someone has any knowledge of this it would be great. Re: How often do you check your BBQ Gas Bottle Fittings??? 15Dec 14, 2009 2:38 pm maurita Ok so now i am confused. I found this article on the internet today. Please read the following - *TWO hundred people were evacuated from a city apartment block tonight after a barbecue gas bottle caught fire and another threatened to explode. Firefighters were concerned about a second gas bottle which could explode next to the burning bottle. Two firefighters in breathing apparatus used a hose on the bottle for 20 minutes to extinguish the fire before the gas could safely be turned off* Mmmm so could ours have exploded or not is the question???? I want to know the answer to this for future reference if someone has any knowledge of this it would be great. The issue in your example, I think, is the chain reaction...a gas bottle valve or fitting gets knocked off and catches fire...in and off itself won't explode but bottle becomes a mini flamethrower...and you need to let the gas escape before you can turn it off. If an adjacent bottle it heated up by the other bottles flames the gas inside the cylinder expands with the risk of rapid rapture of the bottle, rapidly escaping gas, gas in air explodes, KABoooooM. That's why if you have a spare bottle...don't store it next to the other one. Of course that could all be a load of cr*p which I'm guessing about.... mmm....donuts Homer Simpson 1956- Links: Site Costs Ready Reckoner | H1 Addiction Medical Advice | Château TDL: The Backyard 9 24990 In Victoria you cannot put a caveat on arising from a domestic building contract. 65 112535 i would suggest nothing is unreasonable for PCI. we did all sorts, including checking the hot water, checking all the GPO's had power, testing that the showers were… 9 98794 |