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Re: exploding plastic storage tanks

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Originally Posted by AllenGregoryIV View Post
I'm not a plastics or pneumatics expert but I do know we don't ban all car seats when a single model is found to have manufacturing defects. Again I may be wrong and maybe the pneuaire tanks have a similar failure mode but lumping them together because they look the same seems like we are jumping to conclusions. I think we need more information.
Allen, I understand where you are coming from but as someone who has had a 1 liter PVC pneumatic volume explode within 1 foot of me (thank goodness it blew out away from me) I will respectfully disagree here.

The dangers to anyone near one of these if it explodes, especially to bystanders, some of which may be children, is too high for my liking. Thus I say 'ensure it is safe and then we can use it'.
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