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Originally Posted by Jolly Amaranto
And if it really was hooked up, it would be quite a nasty affair. The odorant used in bottled gas lingers on the inside of the tank for a very long time. You can flush the tank out many times with regular air and it still smells bad.
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The odorant is called mercaptan. In my yute I had the opportunity to rebuild a compressor that pumped pure concentrated mercaptan.
After a little while I couldn't smell it anymore but other people sure could smell it on me. Fer a month! Nasty.
