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Originally Posted by John_1102
I'm not seeing this happen?? I have a special program protocol I put into my inventor. I have tried 3" Shcedule 40 and 80, with an air pressure simulation. using FIRST regulators and compressors. and the couplings we primed and had machined. The castostophic failure doesnt occur because the REG is INPUT 150psi OUTPUT only 50psi.
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The PSI doesn't matter. PVC can catastrophically fail without warning.
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We must have done almost 300-400 shots last night. Doing the reashearch on how the system we use flows air, the equalibrium is maintained everywhere.
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Unfortunately, PVC fails without warning. It could be the first shot, or the 1,000th shot, or never.
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I forwarded this to our mentor and he said maybe aluminum, but we have homework to do because dual layered 3in shedule 40 layer with 4in sechudule 40 doesnt rupture unless you are at an air pressure of 1500psi...two of our members made a nailgun with these specifications.
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Again, not air pressure, water pressure. Compressed air is different.
If you use aluminum and it ruptures, air will leak out, but it won't explode into tiny little pieces of shrapnel. PVC will.