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Re: Safety Alert please read!

Did FIRST include this information in an email blast? I was visiting a team earlier this week and they didn't know about this issue. They were in the process of setting up a pneumatics breadboard. I showed them the blog post and a bit of pneumatics safety. They decided to plumb everything as training, but were not going to use these tanks in a live system. I am working with a different subgroup when 20 minutes later when one of the pneumatics kids came over with a cracked cylinder. They had followed the blog installation instructions and had put a crack that is vertically the full length of the threading, out through one of the ribs, and about 1 cm down the outside of the tube. They said they probably would not have noticed if I hadn't pointed out the blog post and they were concerned about doing it correctly and looking at it closely.

The point is that teams still don't know, and tanks are still having issues.

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