Compressor Safety

[Avator]

Probably doable since a ton of youtubers in the powder burner sector wear tactical helmets, plate carriers and othe tacticool stuff to shoot an AR.
YMMV

Could have something to do with me not shooting PB guns.

Well, at least not unless I have to.

 

[rcs9250]

Does anyone not specify eye protection when working with high-pressure air?

A burst hose, pressurized disconnect, or the plethora of other events can injure an eye.

Yeah, eye protection should be mandatory. A dive buddy that worked the same dive shop that I did once attached a low pressure hose (350psi max) to a high pressure port on a regulator and got spanked VERY hard on his lower arm when it failed. He never did that a second time… yet.

 

[Avator]

Common sense is probably your best safety equipment.

 

[GerryR]

Common sense is probably your best safety equipment.

Yes, but common sense isn't as common as it use to be!

 

[Normkel]

Common sense is probably your best safety equipment.

How do you define, "common sense"?

I define "common sense" as: That which agrees with the speaker's preconceptions.". I cannot ever understand how "common sense" is ever a criteria for measuring anything.

 

[357cal]

Are compressors potentially dangerous given high pressure. What safety gear should I wear while using? Thank you.

I tie down the hoses just in case one lets loose, if for some reason the quick disconnect fails at just 1000psi it can knock teeth out etc. I have seen 3/4-inch airline let loose with 90 psi and it was just like a cobra

 

[Avator]

The one that let go on me caught my wrist. I wore a nice bruise for a week or so. Man that hurt.

 

[bchannell]

Probably the greatest risk, by a large margin, is operator error, that's true. Air tanks, especially, carbon fiber bottles, are built way beyond safe. If you read the engineering papers and the USN testing, you would feel very safe with cf tanks. Aluminum is slightly less resilient which is why the pressure is less, which puts them in the super safe category. Every time man comes up with an idiot proof design, the world produces a better idiot, so there will always be accidents involving someone doing something crazy.

 

[bigHUN]

I use hearing protection and of course reading glasses for monitoring the gauges and AMP meter on my YH.
Never to close to hp lines, and
never leave the compressor running out of my eye sight.
Need a coffee or washroom brake the machine gets turned off, also good need some cooling time.

 

[Sleestak]

I tie down the hoses just in case one lets loose, if for some reason the quick disconnect fails at just 1000psi it can knock teeth out etc. I have seen 3/4-inch airline let loose with 90 psi and it was just like a cobra

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yep, loose whips are probably the things most likely to hurt an airgunner during the airing up process IMO

....not nearly as sexy as having a tank blow up in your face, but statistically there's zero percent chance of that actually happening so busted teeth and contusions are the most we can hope for