Destructive Air Tank Testing

[Andy A.]

Originally Posted by Tristan Lall

If you can spare one, do it, to demonstrate the difference in failure mode.

We've got metal tanks galore, in fact. We had meant to test one at the same time as the plastic tanks but ran out of daylight and, in any case, I'm fairly confident the air rifle we had wouldn't have caused anything more then a dinging noise at the range we were shooting at.

We're hoping to do a second round of tests in the near future and we'll include a metal tank or two while we're at it. Causing that to fail will probably require an actual firearm which, while entirely doable, is another level of complexity. We'll chew on that one.