Pressure Tank Explosions

[Havoc45]

One time I witnessed a 50lb tanks fill station break and explode everywere. Fog everywere, almost broke my friends finger from trying to grab the steel braided line.

I wanna here stories from you guys now.

[ciaran.mooney]

Ok if a high pressure tank exploded in close proximity to you ..... you'd be dead! Those things break and the metal would fly everywhere like a frag grenade, rip through/ into your body and kill you almost instantaeously.

Are you sure that a burst disk didnt go (do they have them in fill stations?) and the line was just flicking everywhere?

[Havoc45]

yeah it didnt technicly explode, the fill station broke with a big boom. it was coming outa the top

[ciaran.mooney]

Did the tank acctually become damaged? Like the top metal part of the tank ruptured and metal came spewing out?

[Killer Kat]

If the tank itself ruptured at full capacity he would be hurtin big time, the fragmentation would be exactly like shrapnel from a grenade. If the top blew off it would be able to pierce the ceiling as well as the roof. I too would be inclined to think it was the burst disc. The pressure it would take to rip the top off is well above what the burst disc are, they would blow before the top. However if the top had been mishandled (dropped or unscrewed) I suppose it could come off during a fill.
There are stories of full size tanks acetlyne, nitrogen, compressed air that have been dropped or fallen where the tops snapped off. These tanks turn into cruise missiles. Ripping through concrete walls, killing anything and everything that stands in there way!
This is why it is very important to have your tanks hydro'ed at their due dates!

[Ebonclaw]

Cruise missiles? Hey....maybe I need to get me one of them.....
Actually, that sounds like a great science fair project if you had some way to launch it like a rocket. Hate to be wherever it landed though.

[Havoc45]

for the Farting 3rd time, the fill station broke, this isnt break down every word havoc says thread

[ciaran.mooney]

We are just not sure what you mean.

[HaZrD Boy 00]

the top of the tank ( the fill station ) burst off with a bunch of air goin eveywhere !!!!!!!! not the WHOOOOLe tank

[Havoc45]

thank you, see he gets it. its not that hard to comprehend

[Squidboy]

I saw a kid's burst disk go, it was not pretty. I don't know how it happened but the bottle ended up facing downwards on a curb (the staging area is a big concrete slab with a small stand) spewing liquid Co2 onto the grassand sending up clouds of co2. We all had headaches from that one.

[ciaran.mooney]

Not surprised after inhaling all that Co2.

[Squidboy]

Breathe into a paper bag for an hour and you will know about what our headaches were like.

[Deep Sixx]

If a SCUBA tank goes... you go with it. A ruptured tank will easily go through 3 feet of solid concrete. Don't screw around with these things.

CO2 is a little less dangerous because of lower pressures, but it would still make you nice and dead if you were too close.

D6

[Squidboy]

Also will freeze anything. My cocker leaked when I put on my x-chamber and it froze a little part of my hand and it is just now only healed.

[Havoc45]

over filling a co2 sux too, with the bursting of the copper seal inside, those are a pain to get replaced

[Jmmsbnd007]

Originally posted by Deep Sixx
If a SCUBA tank goes... you go with it. A ruptured tank will easily go through 3 feet of solid concrete. Don't screw around with these things.

CO2 is a little less dangerous because of lower pressures, but it would still make you nice and dead if you were too close.

D6
I woulden't be worried about a SCUBA tank exploding. I believe they (and others, such as N2 paintball tanks) are tested to at least 4x their operating pressure. You could shoot one with a gun, the only thing that would happen is that air would shoot out of the hole created by the bullet.

[sven van poppel]

a full scuba tank can go through 4 brick walls!!!!!!!!

[ziggo_777]

yes...if your fill station "blew up" you would'nt be able to type this thread. just take care of your tank and tell your friends to do so to and you we won't have to "break down every word havoc says"

[Deep Sixx]

Originally posted by Jmmsbnd007

I woulden't be worried about a SCUBA tank exploding. I believe they (and others, such as N2 paintball tanks) are tested to at least 4x their operating pressure. You could shoot one with a gun, the only thing that would happen is that air would shoot out of the hole created by the bullet.

I'd be very worried... the tank would be shooting in some random direction at a couple hundred miles per hour.

They're safe if you know what you're doing. But they are basically bombs. A ruptured SCUBA tank will blast through 2-3 feet of solid concrete like it was paper. If you fill your HPA tank too fast, it could very likely rupture and take your (and your friend's) head off... pressure creates heat and heat weakens metal. Or what if you drop your HPA tank or smash it on a rock in a slide... KA-BOOM! Best case: think "Captain Hook"... worst case: your head is reduced to a fine red mist. And that's just from a little HPA tank. You rupture a full SCUBA tank and they'll be cleaning what's left of you and your buddies up with a hose.

Don't screw around with these things.

D6

[Jmmsbnd007]

Anyone have an idea of what type of gas would be compressed to say... 50000PSI or higher? The tank with the most compressed gas in the world? Bah, what I'm trying to say is that what type of gas is routenly (sp) compressed to insane amounts? At 50,000 PSI I'm guessing everything in a 1000 foot radius would be decapitated...

[SpyDR]

Originally posted by Jmmsbnd007
At 50,000 PSI I'm guessing everything in a 1000 foot radius would be decapitated...

hell id say screw decapitated, youd be blown into teeny eensy weensy molecules:D

[Squidboy]

50k psi........Imagine a thin coat of red and pink swirl spraypaint covering the radius of about 1000yards. BOOOMMMM SPLASH. The paintball guns around would happilly fly over a mile if they are close to the fill station and become anti-tank projectiles. Cars near the fill station would either flip or fly quite a ways. Anything above about 10k is ulta-dangerous,the 10k tanks are only for suba divers with money out their ears, and the explorers and search and rescue guys that use the small submersibles and those suits that look like something out of a space-flick. 10k tanks (if placed in the right position) can and will sink the exploration ship by putting a hole through the hull and anything else that hapens to be in the way. BEWARE OF PRESSURE TECHNOLOGY!!!

[Jmmsbnd007]

Thanks. I will go take my new 4500 PSI fiber-wrapped 114ci tank and hit it with my ax.

[ziggo_777]

Originally posted by Jmmsbnd007
Anyone have an idea of what type of gas would be compressed to say... 50000PSI or higher? The tank with the most compressed gas in the world? Bah, what I'm trying to say is that what type of gas is routenly (sp) compressed to insane amounts? At 50,000 PSI I'm guessing everything in a 1000 foot radius would be decapitated...

It'd make a big boom!

[Ebonclaw]

Geez....now there's an idea. Take a 50,000 posi tank, set it in a room with casefulls of paintballs and detonate. You'll get players out all over the globe! Eliminations at IAO without being there! Wipers in Kentucky and Antarctica!

[Person]

me and my dad were talking to a fire fighter who witnessed the end of a hpa tank i think it was a 5000 psi tank and he said it went thru like 5 walls before it ran out of air it didnt hit anyone but if it hit someone it would go right thru them. Dont throw down ur hpa system and gun it could kill you.