exploding plastic storage tanks

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Originally Posted by JVN

Has anyone seen a black tank fail?

Here are examples of the black Clippards failing, albeit a different failure mode than the "exploding":

Originally Posted by Wren Hensgen

Team 225 has managed to make one of the new black plastic tanks fail, but the failure actually occurred on the push-to-connect fitting, which snapped out under pressure. This might be an intentional design, as losing a hose is probably less dangerous than throwing shrapnel around

Originally Posted by thefro526

Oddly enough, this may be due in part to a manufacturing defect, as we've had one of the fittings come out as well, and AM has a note about it on their site. http://www.andymark.com/product-p/am-2649.htm