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You may need to keep several flammable liquids and gases on hand in your welding shop, including acetylene, propane, and natural gas. You need to treat these materials with a great deal of care and respect because they can cause a huge amount of injury and damage in no time at all.

Store all flammable liquids in sealed containers and keep the containers in a flammable liquids locker like the one depicted in Figure 3-5. These lockers are made of metal and have a door that closes securely. You can buy a flammable liquids locker at your welding supply store or even a home improvement warehouse. As you can imagine, you don’t want to put the locker anywhere in your shop or welding area with a source of heat nearby.

FIGURE 3-5: A common flammable liquids storage locker, appropriately labeled.

A few common flammable welding gases (such as the acetylene, propane, and natural gas I mention earlier in the section) are compressed so that a large amount of gas can be put into a cylinder for controlled use. If you have these cylinders in your welding shop, be sure to store them far away from any heat source. Oxygen gas is also very dangerous when pressurized, so treat it with the same respect you would any other potentially hazardous gas.