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Re: exploding plastic storage tanks
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Originally Posted by stinglikeabee
I haven't seen it yet, so I'll reiterate this point: NEVER WORK ON A PRESSURIZED SYSTEM.
Tightening brass fittings in a pressurized plastic tank has a higher probability of causing cracks, which ultimately leads to a rupture.
I don't know the details of the GTR tank rupture, but all of the evidence in past explosions points to user error, not a design flaw.
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If any of the mentioned failure mechanisms had been applied to a metallic tank would there have been a failure? Or a brittle/catastrophic failure?
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