We had an outreach event for our team yesterday, and we were displaying our robot, driving it around, running the shooter, etc. Then we heard a very loud pop and one of our team members immediately pressed the power switch. We went over to take a look and found this:
http://i.imgur.com/gf2CB.jpg
Something crazy must have happened here. By looking at the whole, it looks like the tubing melted, which made the tubing thinner. Would the heat from that compressor (I believe it's the small one that is prone to overheating) be able to weaken the tubing enough to have it pop?
We
were using the compressor for extended periods of time, due to using large amounts of pressure for our center wheels, which use up like 1-2 large PVC tanks of air per full cycle.