Gun Blows Up (Not literally Exploded)

[Inverse]

I was playing at a field and went off to look at new markers in the shop and when i came back the macro line blew up and the whole gun shot back into the woods and we had to go in the woods and find it, i found it really funny, thought id share

[jrose152]

any pics of the gun? and wait it was sitting there and blew up and actualy flew in the air?!?!?:eek:

[LimeRatImpy]

thats crazy, it might have been blown off the table but i don't think rocketed into the air:eyes:

[jrose152]

man i was picturing like people diving to the ground and a gun exploding and it like flying through the air like a missel

[Inverse]

it shot off the table and flew back into the woods, didnt go straight up if thats what ur thinkin, almost hit my brothers friend tho :blah:

[camoman5000]

Holy Crap dude. Did the macro blow out of a fitting, or did it literaly bust at the seams? Goes to show how much damage a pressurized marker can do, or can potentially do.:crazy:

[Blackfire]

I heard a story where someone left their CO2 tank in their trunk and it overheated and exploded and blew off the trunk hood. :eek:

Also, once my friend was taking apart his Stingray during a game and he forgot to take out the CO2 ( :laugh: ) and after he got a few of the pins out it rocketed like 10 fet and his another friend in the leg.

[cocker kid 2k2]

Originally posted by Blackfire
I heard a story where someone left their CO2 tank in their trunk and it overheated and exploded and blew off the trunk hood. :eek:

That would never happen.

[mcbunker]

heh, wen u was jus starting out paintballin, i was at my friends house n me n him went outside 2 try n fix a leak in my pirahna g1 (its an oldie) and a few minutes later, his mom n her friend come running outta the house screaming the house is gonna blow up! we went inside n my 9oz co2 pin valve broke. I was pissed

[Blackfire]

Originally posted by cocker kid 2k2


That would never happen.

Why? I'm sure they have those warnings about not overheating the bottles for a reason. Of course their is that burst disk thingy.... O well, mebbe it was old, or maybe it was fictional, still a funny story tho.

[Kraus]

My first gun exploded. I left my gun gassed up in my trunk (I was a major newb) and when I went to get it out, the whole side of the marker had exploded and the CO2 tank was empty.

It was a cheap marker though, a PMI Black Maxx. Was made out of some sort of plastic.

[jrose152]

sumtin like this makes me wanna (from a save distance in a feild) throw my 20 oz into a fire pit

[mcbunker]

ya i was a huge newb wen it happened, it was my first tank n the first time i got it filled. Weni called the place to see what they did, they said that the tank heated n the valve blew. I beleived him, but now that i know a lot more, i know that the way he filled it, he messed up big time

[paintballer42o]

I was at penolton the other day and this guy was unscrewing the Co2 and it started leaking and spraying everywhere and the gun flew up into the air and the Co2 shot out and hit some bench. It was kewl.

[teamfortman]

My marco line blew up, i'll get some pics later lol
It sounded almost like 1/2 the sound of a real gun, I was talking and all the sudden BOOM and my gun (cocker) goes flying onto the ground.
Then my friends said thats why you don't get a cocker :laugh:
Anyways.... I couldn't hear out of my right ear for like 2 mins it was that powerful (it blew at the "bend" of the line BTW)
Oh yeah it was cheapo marco line, because when I replaced it the new line was like 2 times thicker (less air flow but apparently a lot better)

[teamfortman]

http://www.geocities.com/teamfortman/macro.html
Pics!
Notice the difference between the two lines?
Make sure you get good ones ;)

[heyheyhey]

Originally posted by cocker kid 2k2


That would never happen.


dude, a tank with 2200 psi behind it could easily do that. if it was in the open, everyone within 10 feet would be turned to a fine red mist if it exploded

[Cypher]

Originally posted by heyheyhey



dude, a tank with 2200 psi behind it could easily do that. if it was in the open, everyone within 10 feet would be turned to a fine red mist if it exploded

It was a co2 tank which is about 220 psi. And the burst disc would have broken too as it was not heated up extremely quicker under extreme heat, which would have caused gass to spew out of the bottle and it spinning around in circles in the trunk with a 1/4 nch layer of frost on the outside until it ran out of gas.

[paintballjnke44]

well 1 time at my field a guy had a on off on his [or co2 i dont remmber i think it was co2 tho]nitro tank i or on the drop i pretty sure it waz the tank tho and he unscrewed it and like air waz going all over the place then it flew out of his hands[maybe a foot out of hiz hands not far] and he tried 2 turn it off but valve had frozen so he couldn't turen it off so he had 2 keep hiz foot on it or somthing i dun really remmber it happend a while agao

[Cypher]

It was CO2, becasue u enver unscrew a Nitro(Air) tank due it being around 8500 psi (pounds per square inch) and air isn't cold. As well, there is no way in hell he could hold onto it, because it is too forceful.

[Kullervo]

QUOTE]Originally posted by Blackfire
I heard a story where someone left their CO2 tank in their trunk and it overheated and exploded and blew off the trunk hood. :eek: [/QUOTE]

Originally posted by cocker kid 2k2

That would never happen.



i think it was pmi that did a recall on some co2 tanks that didn't have holes to vent if the burst disk ruptured. it was just a solid screw.
as for taking out the hood how would i know but i am sure some damage would be done.
provided it got hot enough.

[dashfan87]

i was playing at a field one day left my cocker on a bench went inside the shop, at the time the cocker wasnt in the sun, came out played. after the ame tank started leaking and i tried to unscrew it, but when i got right to the end of the threads it like lew my cocker right out of my hands barrel first into the dirt. my friends thought it was cool. i didnt:|

[masternewb]

One time I was unscrewing a 9 oz out of my friends JT Excellerator and I guess he stripped the screws or something cause it was really hard to uncrew. But I broke the locktite on the tank and the tank broke free from the gold piece. It was horrible I was stuck with a 9oz holding it inbetween my legs. The tank was freezing cold and I couldnt breath in his room. It was pretty funny though.

[kangaroodent]

Originally posted by cocker kid 2k2


That would never happen.

A CA tank, if 'exploded' under a semi, would rocket the semi up about 30 stories.

[arson51]

Originally posted by masternewb
It was pretty funny though.

A woman was killed because of a 20 oz diconnected with teh pin valve. struck her at close range and pulped her skull. died instantly. she was watching some kids at a paintball b-day party.

another thing to note is that all these explosion stories are about co2.....

[scared of fbi]

wow this one time i was driving down the road with my dad in his truck and the pin valve blew on my 20 oz (we almost had an accident)and i threw it on the floorboard and put my foot on it to stop it from spinning and my foot froze too the floorboard and my foot was numb for like an hour i was only wearing skate shoes. and then i put it in the back and when i got to the paintball store i forgot that it was really cold and my hand froze too it and i ripped off a chunk of skin but there was like an inch of frost and ice on the tnk too it was pure white.

[Kullervo]

Originally posted by arson51


another thing to note is that all these explosion stories are about co2.....


i don't doubt its possible for compressed air tanks to fail though.

[arson51]

when the forces of compressed gasses are unleashed. there is no winner.

[masternewb]

Why couldnt my story ever happen?

[paintballjnke44]

I'm pretty sure he was talking about cocker kids post?

[Robomonkey]

how does a CO2 tank explode when over heated? and how to prevent against it?

[Kullervo]

there is a part called a burst disk that is supposed to blowout
if the pressure gets to high.
if for any reason yours blows out make sure you
get the one that blows at the right pressure.
some were made by pmi that didn't have vents like i said earlier
which made them very dangerous.
thats why they recalled them.

[Robomonkey]

Originally posted by Kullervo

if for any reason yours blows out make sure you
get the one that blows at the right pressure.


i didnt get that, so your saying that different Burst disks have different pressure settings?

[Kullervo]

yes
there are ones for all kinds of pressures
co2 tanks have thiers at about 1800 psi
3000 psi tanks use one that bursts at 4500
4500-5000 psi tanks use one that bursts at about 7500

at least thats what i gathered from the shopping
pages at action village.

i think this is the one forum i have ever put a semi intelligent
post in. Just goes to show when it comes to co2 and common sense i am the one to look for.:D

[ff fan]

I heard about akid at a field in edmonton and his pump got shot in the place where you load the 12 g tanks and it exploded and he started crying (after the game every one chipped in and bought him a spyder tho)

[arson51]

heh thats pretty nice. least he wasnt crying because he was peppered with shrapnel from the explosion ;)

[stangman]

Originally posted by Cypher
It was CO2, becasue u enver unscrew a Nitro(Air) tank due it being around 8500 psi (pounds per square inch) and air isn't cold. As well, there is no way in hell he could hold onto it, because it is too forceful.

woah what kind of tank do you have? i want a 68/8500 tank please =P

and what doyou mean you never unscrew a nitro tank...i uncrew it from my gun all the time, because thats what its meant to do.

the third part though i agree...no way to hold onto 3000+ psi of air like that.

[BlackNight52]

Well, I read in the news that the cap on the actual tank was turned loose while a player tried to unscrew it. And after several minutes, the cap flew off and ended up killing 2 people.

For safety reasons, I reccomend you place a mark of some kind on the cap so when you unscrew it, you can tell if the cap is still in its orginal position or has been turned loose.

[styLuS-eighty6]

Hmmm, a C02 tank exploding in a car trunk eh? Took out the whole trunk? Highly unlikely. First of all, C02 tanks have a safety feature known as a 'burst-disk' which prevents a tank from exploding in 99.9% of the time. Its pressure-sensitive, and it will release before internal tank pressure reaches the maximum tank capacity. Therefore, the only possible scenario would be that the burst-disk tripped, which would send the tank in a mad spin, but not explode. Which means his trunk would have clearly been in-tact. While I've seen burst-disks release when the tanks where under DIRECT sunlight over the course of a few hours, I don't believe a trunk would reach high enough temperature for the C02 to expand enough to trip the burst-disk. Yes, it can get hot, but still not as hot as being under direct sunlight. :eyes:

[styLuS-eighty6]

Originally posted by Cypher
It was CO2, becasue u enver unscrew a Nitro(Air) tank due it being around 8500 psi (pounds per square inch) and air isn't cold. As well, there is no way in hell he could hold onto it, because it is too forceful.

Thats what nitro tanks have regulators for. The regulate the internal pressure whether its 3000 psi or 4500 psi to an output pressure from anywhere of 200 psi to 900 psi. There is no tank on the market with an output pressure of 8500 psi. Or internal pressure for that matter!

Originally posted by Cypher


It was a co2 tank which is about 220 psi.

Hehe, C02 tank doesnt ran at about 220 PSI, more like 700-800 PSI. 220 is considered extremely low pressure. Anything below 500 PSI is low pressure.

[pbkid180]

Originally posted by jrose152
sumtin like this makes me wanna (from a save distance in a feild) throw my 20 oz into a fire pit

hahaha that would be so great man...lol good one

[shoebag2000]

regulators dont regulate the internal pressure of a tank, they regulate the output pressure. they make sure that any air going into a gun doesnt isnt above the set limit. For example, a typical preset high pressure HPA tank regulator will be set for 800 psi. So if you depressed the pin on the pin valve all the way, the pressure coming from the valve wouldnt exceed 800 psi.