Are compressors potentially dangerous given high pressure. What safety gear should I wear while using? Thank you.
Compressor Safety
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I strongly suggest you avoid any and all Firearms powder or pneumatic until you attend training classes.
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potentially dangerous ? yes but no safety wear is required , or used that i know of . just make sure your connections are secure.
I think what your filling has more potential than the compressor itself .
I think what your filling has more potential than the compressor itself .
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I use safety glasses and ear plugs, the need glasses is obvious, and when I reach fill pressure I open my bleed valve as fast as I can , which produces a loud noise that hurts my ears
Following this just to see if anyone can provide a straight answer to a sincere question.
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Anyone giving odds?
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I thought my answer was fairly straight ? i went so far as to buy a expensive gage and install it on the fill end of the hose to make sure of the preset shutoff pressure . then fill my guns .
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Question sanity of any Yong Heng owner not using hearing protection, I use same as for chainsaw. Safety goggles over glasses but switched to face shield since filling station is at eye level and I monitor airgun gauges for fill pressures. WM
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Large compressors are probably as dangerous as an internal combustion engine.
If you're talking the small 12v compressors, there's just not enough air volume in them to do much more than burst a hose or crack the block etc. I would really be surprised if they would throw any dangerous amount of schrapnel, probably only in a freak accident. You're probably in more danger mowing your lawn.
If you're talking the small 12v compressors, there's just not enough air volume in them to do much more than burst a hose or crack the block etc. I would really be surprised if they would throw any dangerous amount of schrapnel, probably only in a freak accident. You're probably in more danger mowing your lawn.
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John, I see you do not have many posts on AGN since 2020 when you joined. As you can see, we like to chide each other from time to time, all in fun.
Seriously, you might call AoA, Air Tanks Plus, or some Dive Shops and ask their service department what they recommend, if anything. I'm guessing most don't wear anything, not that this makes it right. I think AoA ( Airguns of Arizona ) works on repairing compressors for their customers, so that would be my first call.
I think the use of wearing safety glasses and using one way valves, air pressure gauges, double checking adapter fittings for proper fit; all of which add some level of comfort to working on your compressor fills.
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Not even kidding. I put unknown questionable pressure vessels behind level 4 armor for the first fill and an hour after for a while . Nothings ever happened in 15 years. So now I just keep some distance and wear a eyepro
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HPA is a very serious consideration. Small story.
At the range one day, got distracted talking to a "chatty Kathy' while filling my AG with the GW. Forgot to bleed the valve all the way or at all, and proceeded to remove it from AG, and fill whip wacked me very hard in my face, underneath my eye. Never made that mistake again. If someone is talking to me, I am not filling my gun. Lesson learned.
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In three years here on AGN IIRC, there was a Leshy tank on a gun that exploded, details were sketchy as I recall. And there may have been another gun tube cylinder that experienced a “rapid disassembly, again, sketchy info.
A friend that owns a dive shop in New York had a paintballers carbon fiber bottle explode on his arm. Pretty serious injury to his arm. His arm healed up in about a year and then got his index finger between a boats mooring line and a dock cleat and ripped his finger off and the tendon where it attached at the elbow.
He had some bad luck.
I filled thousands of aluminum and steel scuba tanks in a ten year period at a dive shop and many many SCBA’s at the dive shop, fire department and with my home compressor with not a single incident.
Keep your filling equipment in good shape and protected from unqualified users and replace things when you start to see wear. I would say the weakest link would be fill lines, buy good ones from reputable sources.
Best of luck.
A friend that owns a dive shop in New York had a paintballers carbon fiber bottle explode on his arm. Pretty serious injury to his arm. His arm healed up in about a year and then got his index finger between a boats mooring line and a dock cleat and ripped his finger off and the tendon where it attached at the elbow.
He had some bad luck.
I filled thousands of aluminum and steel scuba tanks in a ten year period at a dive shop and many many SCBA’s at the dive shop, fire department and with my home compressor with not a single incident.
Keep your filling equipment in good shape and protected from unqualified users and replace things when you start to see wear. I would say the weakest link would be fill lines, buy good ones from reputable sources.
Best of luck.
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There's a lot of energy involved in even 1cc of air. I won't tell anybody complacency is ok, ive just been involved with hpa since it first showed up in paintball at 3k fill levels when the standard was co2. I didn't post why I was putting bottles in body armor for a reason.
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BINGO unqualified users is the best way to say it. My first choice of words was too harsh, I didn't think "smooth brains" was super appropriate, but it's funny so I wrote it here.
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