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Re: T-Shirt cannon pnuematic set ups

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Originally Posted by Adama View Post
If in fact PVC is incredibly dangerous I have a few questions.

The discussion here has been only about air powered guns. Is there any greater or less danger in combustion guns? ( I'm aware that this would be disallowed on school grounds, its just a question of principle) I imagine that the lack of high pressure storage gives some what more safety though there is more of a spiking pressure affect that could counter act this.

Also on the topic of air cannons what are peoples opinions on the below link?

http://www.spudfiles.com/

I realize that it is the internet and not a well researched set of standards but one must question the danger involved if there has been a large community of people using these devices for years now. They have there share of accidents (as does any hobby such as dirt biking or snow boarding, etc) but it would seem that they only happen to people who didn't follow the well known safety practices and construction techniques established over time by the general spudding community. I guess that that if PVC were as dangerous as we are discussing then most of these people would have killed themselves by now.

I would definately say thats a combustion gun would be even more dangerous

PVC SHOULD NOT to be used EVER for anything being pressurised except for WATER and this should be the end of it(unfortunately it most likely wont )

and on the topic of alot of people using PVC, I belive there just asking for it, but its thier decision
Ill' give you that PVC dosent ALWAYS explode(which is why alot of people use it) but IF it does,someone COULD be seriously hurt, I dont know about you guys, but I would rather not risk having someone else injured because of me

I also belive this has been said before MANY MANY times by far more experience people than me
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