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Originally Posted by AllenGregoryIV
These tests and all of the failures I know of are on a single brand and model of tank that is known by the manufacturer to have this problem. To my knowledge no one has tested the 2014 Clipboard tanks or any other manufacturer's tanks for these types of failures. We shouldn't talk in generalities so quickly, we still have very little information on this subject.
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Along those lines, if anyone has a spare black tank or three they want us to test, please send it! Or any of the available plastic tanks.
Plastics are still plastics though... in the OP read the memo from the plastic pipe institute, it's only a page. A very carefully worded caution against using plastic to transport compressed gases. It's all about the cost of failure, and the simple fact of the matter is that plastics will generally shatter when they fail and metals will generally yield, crack, and vent all of the gas out without making shrapnel.
I think we might also try to make a metal tank fail, but that's a whole other ball of wax...