[Shop-talk] Compressed Air Lines, RapidAir

[Wayne]

On 10/13/2011 4:49 PM, David Hillman wrote:
> There's this thing called Google...

Yeah, there's this nice little site http://www.lmgtfy.com/ (let me 
google that for you) that is an appropriate but somewhat rude slap 
upside the head for just such a purpose.

> Last year, a section of PVC pipe being used for compressed air exploded
> 27 feet above a warehouse floor. A fragment of the pipe flew 60 feet and
> embedded itself in a roll of paper. Fortunately, nobody was in the area

Crikey!  I've had an IED inside a clay tile pipe splatter my back with 
clay shrapnel, which caused no injury but was not pleasant.  Guess I 
should take the PVC thing more seriously.

Saw an industrial maintenance guy use a plumbing grade fitting on a 6000 
psi nitrogen line used for leak testing hydraulics explode and almost 
kill someone.

-w