Post #284211 by keigs20 on Thu, Feb 8, 2007 3:35 PM

I don't think this has been discussed. If you use propane or any gas to burn carvings make sure all fittings are tight and you have a fire extinguisher around. Cause it sucks when you here a small gas leak while your burning, shut off the valve on the hoses to tighten things up and it back flashes into itself behind the shutoff valve. Causing a minor explosion that takes some of your hair off including a lot of nose hair and eyebrows. If you panic like I did you throw the torch and hoses that are spewing flames into the corner of your shop where there is about 6 inches of saw dust and a bunch of tools laying, run for the door of your shop because you don't know how bad you are burned. When you make it to the door you realize it does not matter how bad you are burned cause a corner of your shop and some expensive tools are now in flames. So you run back in grab the fire extinguisher( pure luck I had one of those laying around )and put out the blaze. All worked out ok it just added a little character to a few tools and my face for a few months.