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Old 2010-01-27, 11:07am
Carrie T. Carrie T. is offline
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Default Water in O2 hose?

Our garage flooded last week. I guess my o2 hose, the part that connects to the concentrator must have fallen to the floor at some point. It was up where I keep it off the floor when I hooked up this morning, but when I started to warm up the concentrators about a cup of water sprayed out of my torch.
The sound alone scared the heck out of me.
I disconnected the hose and im hanging it to "dry" but im wondering if I really need to just replace it? If I do just leave it hanging to dry how long do i need to wait? Any concerns about the torch itself? I could hook up the shopvac and try to blow any remaining water from the torch but is it ruined already?
Any advice would be appreciated.
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Old 2010-01-27, 1:22pm
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Probably not ruined; or even harmed. It might take a while to dry out by just hanging so I would suggest leaving the hoses attached to the torch and with the torch valves fully open set up the shopvac to blow air through the hoses. A. the air is somewhat warmed by going thru the vac and B. it will remove the moisture very quickly. Quick way to direct the vac air thru the setup is to take the hose(s) and wrap a rag around it/them such that it can be stuffed into the vac hose somewhat tightly and seal with duct tape.

Most of the metals in torches are not affected by brief exposure to water so you should be OK. Another method would be to get one of those RV layup moisture absorber units at an RV supply place and put one of them and your torch into a closed container (5gal bucket comes to mind) and leave it a day or two.

The shopvac is quicker, cheeper, and will work better I think.

PJ

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Old 2010-01-27, 3:17pm
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Thanks PJ
I didn't think to force air through the hose too I just hung it up I will go do that now too.
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Old 2010-01-27, 5:54pm
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Just let concentrator run through hose and torch (valve open) for 24 hours or so... The "dry" oxygen from concentrator will absorb the moisture and carry it out of hose & torch........

Dale
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Old 2010-02-06, 10:35am
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Now why didn't I think of that )
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