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Re: Help Identify This T-Shirt Cannon Robot Please
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Originally Posted by Cory
I look at this and I see maimed students.
PVC as a pressure vessel is very bad.
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Originally Posted by Cory
Just because it hasn't failed doesn't mean it isn't horribly unsafe.
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+1
This is extremely sound advice!
We stopped using PVC as our pressure chamber on our T-Shirt cannon because of the risk potential. We too have never had a failure, but the risk just didn't make it wise to use PVC.
We switched to ABS. It's cheap, easily available, easy to machine and has a failure mode that is safe. ABS will blister out, and then the blister "herniates". No explosion, no shards, no injury. Additionally, we have also never had a failure with ABS.
So, there really is no reason to use PVC when ABS will do the same job and not have the risk of injury.
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