You need to replace the stock locking pin with the longer 16mm locking pin, and then it will lock when folded.
Yup, exactly. This whole situation is off so I can't wait to find out what the "official" findings are.
I have to admit I was surprised to see wall thickness, is this normal for the industry? It did seem unusual but admittedly I have no background in pressure vessels. Is this possibly a raptor reg that got set to a higher pressure? I wasn’t clear on what I was seeing in the image
Thats what I see also!! The oring should be inboard of the threaded area. If its outboard the whole pressure is on the threaded area with a very thin wall. I really hope no one was injured. Please send the pics to Edgun to review.
That o-ring groove looks like it was modified (with a very thin wall). And what's the deal with that missing anodization in the groove and the inner walls of the split cylinder?
Well I dont really know what standards were used but by western standards leshiy2 is rated at 300bar fill pressure and any part under that pressure shouldnt fail anywhere near those pressures you can output. Actually catastrophic failure should only occure far north of 900bars. This applys especially when used materials such as aluminium that have huge tendency of suffering metal fatique. We use massive safety standards in west due that fatique that can cause failure at alot lower point in time but when you up scale strenght enough forces aint enough to cause fatique in first place.
We tried to destroy the tubes while testing and always fail, the maximum pressure we could achieve was 800 bar.
Could it be that chamber was drilled too deep combined with that sharp corner. Atleast to my eye it seems that is going far deeper on that fractured tube if you see material is really thin due that corner overlaps with out side bevel. Alltho other theories were that it failed from threaded side but I really fail to see how it could seeing threads are not under pressure unless the fellow managed to leave that o ring away and make it seal from outside.
The issue was the treaded area was pressurized nothing else is at fault. The cross section of the tread bore is to thin for that pressure. The Inboard oring was not in place and having a outboard oring is never a good idea so i have no idea why its there at all. Because the inboard oring is missing all the pressure is being held back by the outboard oring which then in turn puts all the tank pressure on the thin threaded area. THIS IS WHY IT FAILED.
Yes but the problem with that theory is that there is no place for outside O ring.. and I bloody highly doubt it you could manage to make it seal by placing O ring on bottom of threads ans just screw it on place..
I know the threads are free of pressure by design. The oring in the failure picture is not in the position it was designed to be in.
When you built tube you always have o-ring sealing pressure in before threaded area just like in leshiy 2.. but in picture of exploded chamber o-ring is placed on bottom of male threads leaving threads pressurized that could result catastrophic failure if you manage to seal it somehow by placing o-ring there and leaving o-ring groove empty so pressure in chamber actually moves between threads. Im not sure how it could seal that way since leshiy 2 aint designed to have that o-ring sitting there.
