In about 1962, when I was a kid, I remember an acetelyne generator that blew up in one of our local blacksmith shops. I was on a bike about two blocks away, and I believe the ground must have shook. It blew both doors completely off the building, blew the windows out, ruffled the tin on the roof, and pitched the old blacksmith out in the front driveway. He survived, but had red skin burns everywhere that was uncovered. Burned his hair off where it wasn't covered by his cap, and eyebrows off where they weren't covered by his goggles. He used those little goggles that were seperate and had a small piece of chain over the nose, kinda like a lamp pull chain. His face looked like a clowns face - white around his eyes, and red everywhere else. There was no fire after the explosion - the fire truck came, but they just walked around looking at the damage. The smithy never opened back up for business.
I took welding classes at our local junior college, and the acetelyne instructor said, "If you're ever offered a job in a shop that still uses one of those acetelyne generators, RUN don't walk, away from that place."
We had another welding shop in our town that also used an acetelyne generator, and never had any mishaps that I heard of. I remember that it had a vent line that went outside the back of the shop. Don't know if the blown up shop had a vent.
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