You are correct, and perhaps my language which I chose to use as a metaphor recognized that it would take a fool to grossly over fill to multiples of the rated pressure , was a poor choice because as a newbie at this group I was not aware of the history of what caused the “raised eyebrows“ when I made those comments. Coming from a background in the firearms world, and having worked both professionally, and as an amateur within that world, I am well aware that many end users are, in fact, capable of doing some very, very foolish things, which would be consistent with what you point out would be a gross abuse of fI’ll pressure . I also appreciate your effort to pour a little oil on troubled waters. Please accept my thanks with these additional thoughts.
As evidenced by the original post, there are many who send questions into this and other similar groups, because they are not experienced and want help from those who do not have a commercial axe to grind and offer opinions motivated, at least in part, by their sponsors. I come from the firearm world where most of the “testing” can be found in magazines that are supported by manufacturers‘ ads and rarely have anything bad to say about anything bad about whatever they test. The prudent gun owner would take those tests with a grain, if not with a pillar of salt, and are more likely to except discussions on user groups where the users are more experienced, and without any commercial ax to grind (for example, the long – existing Smith and Wesson forum, his information and advice that cannot be found anywhere else and is usually far more reliable than a magazine test. Many of us will go to that site to resolve questions regarding a variety of matters already supposedly “resolved” by a magazine or by a manufacturers response.)
this is why I questioned the idea of downplaying potential issues with the proverbial $20 tank. I am sure you and many other experienced air gunners at this forum are quite capable of deciding whether a particular tank is or is not safe and whether it is a good in purchase. I was weighing the issue in light of the fact that the person reading the response would presume it’s validity and wo
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