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Originally Posted by Jon Stratis
Using compressed air to blow out metal chips and shavings is fairly dangerous, and if I saw it occurring I would personally get the lead safety adviser over there to talk with the team. When you blow those chips, they go everywhere, which could very easily include into the face and behind the safety glasses of someone on the other side of the robot or in the next pit over.
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We use a "safety" nozzle limited to 30 psi and we've always done it in some type of enclosure, like our pit's side area, which has walls over a trash can. If you end up doing serious machining at the event, it's really nice to have. We actually checked with pit safety people at the beginning of the event (as we often offer our pit resources to other teams), and they said they would be okay with it. Next competition, we'll be sure to check again, just to be safe.
I don't like limiting the storage volume. It doesn't make too much sense to me, as I don't think quantity of air is the big danger factor of FRC pneumatics.
I do agree that we should have a list of legal tanks, and I wouldn't be too upset if plastic tanks were banned.