exploding plastic storage tanks

[Jon Stratis]

Originally Posted by AllenGregoryIV

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.

I would agree... however the case I saw up at LSR (and prompted me starting this thread) was not due to a manufacturing defect - it was due to improper use and handling by the team.

From what I've seen of plastics in general, I'm not aware of any that could be use in this application that wouldn't have a similar failure mode. Then again, I'm a software engineer and not a chemist or material scientist. Still, it worries me.