This does not relate to me as I use good quality carbon fiber tanks and not some unknow aluminum Ebay special...moving on.
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Was anyone hurt? That is a SERIOUS blow! WHERE on the tank does it say it's 5500 rated? Something is not right!
Maybe VALVE is 5500 rated, NOT TANK. This is serious & scary. PLEASE post a picture of where you're getting the 5500 number from. might be a test pressure # & not working pressure. I've always been concerned someone will make a mistake & get hurt.
Yea It did right at 3000, guy lost part if his legAre you sure about the 6000 psi rating? That tank has no wrap and appears to be just aluminum - I know of no unwrapped tank rated that high, let alone one made of aluminum . . . .
Edit - When I posted this question, his original post said the tank was rated at 6000 psi. He later edited it to 5500 as noted in post #5 but never addressed anything else. There is no way that tank is rated for 5500 psi - probably not even 3000 . . . it could well be a misused CO2 tank that would probably blow at about 3000 psi.
Which part? Upper? Lower? Middle?Yea a guy lost part of his leg.
I heard it was the third or better known as the middle legWhich part? Upper? Lower? Middle?
Was it the left or right leg?
Speaking of legs, mine is getting longer, please stop pulling it so hard.
See tank picture in initial post on this "alternative facts" clown show. It's a large tank. THAT'S what the discussion is really about. Not whether a gun can have a HP aluminum reservoir.I may be missing something here, so forgive me if I am, but someone mentioned a gun or two that was coming out with a >3600 psi aluminum cylinder. You have to remember that smaller, say less than 2.5" cylinders can handle way more pressure than a large diameter tank. If you read the certifications for manufactured pressure vessels, anything less than 2" in diameter, with properly certified engineering specs, never needs redtesting in the US. That is because of the small diameter "rule". So it's not surprising that a gun with a slim, (not a bottle) tube, could conceivably be rated at a higher pressure. My question would be how would you fill a 7500psi gun?