Bottle Blows Up

[Strawb]

dont forget how my dad helped, he doused his flame, as he was honestly on fire according to my dad his clothes were melting on him, and thats why he ripped his jersey and gloves off, Nige is a brilliant bloke and the paintball community wouldnt be the same without him, the bottle did mangle the gun, similar to the figure of 8. when my dad got there he covered Nige with himself and risked his own life of being a human fire ball, everyone did a brilliant job in reaction time, Niges hopper was broken as well, even though the compressor is a flash fill, it couldnt have been the compressor, stako have a history of dodgey bottles, my dad says "at the age of 13, you allow them to have a bottle of 4500psi, anything over 3000psi should be outlawed for this age unless they have supervision, we tend to take things for granted that everyone knows what they are doing, but do they? As every rig at every venue is different, this place however, my dad says is the best venue in the country, thank you to the guy who helped me dress his wounds and thank you to kitch for a fast response........good luck mate and make a speedy recovery"

Wookie Care Bears Alpha

I Believe STAKO quote a MAX filling rate of 100PSI a second, so if the compressor was flash filling then that's likely to be a contributing factor if not the cause.
As Leigh has already suggested the plastic liner only used by STAKO's may be the cause(When flash filled at least).

Hope you make a full and speedy recovery Nige

 

[RainbowShooter]

Out of interest, what was the flow rate into the hose?

 

[Russell Smith]

BAN THE STAKO!! BAN THE STAKO!! BAN THE STAKO!! BAN THE STAKO!! BAN THE STAKO!! BAN THE STAKO!! BAN THE STAKO!! BAN THE STAKO!! BAN THE STAKO!! BAN THE STAKO!!

there was a huge bang, you could've heard it from Westleigh :O

Woke Care Bears Alpha

Why?

The bottle never failed - any bottle that had a flash fire inside (as it seems this did) would have had the same result.
It would be more sensible to say let us review how much magnesium content is in the regulators because once that has ignited it self sustains.

This occurrence has the potential ability to cause an awful lot of problems to paintball that I suspect most people do not comprehend.
When accidents happen abroad we just think we are lucky and carry on as normal, the simple fact is now it has happened in the UK at some point the Dept of transport will become involved and this little insignificant sport will come under the magnifying glass from people who can stop it overnight if they think the safety risks are unacceptable.


Russ

 

[FirebirD]

BAN THE STAKO!! BAN THE STAKO!! BAN THE STAKO!! BAN THE STAKO!! BAN THE STAKO!! BAN THE STAKO!! BAN THE STAKO!! BAN THE STAKO!! BAN THE STAKO!! BAN THE STAKO!!

there was a huuuuge bang, you couldve heard it from eastleigh :O

Wookie Care Bears Alpha

Was the reg, not the bottle, please don't jump to conclusions

 

[spreadz07]

guys
on my phone so will post when I get back home. Just want to say, if any of you think I would of put any oil near my tank then you don't know me. Thank god it was me and not anyone else as I am ok but it could of been worse.
thanks for you wishes guys I will be back on when I get home
Nige

 

[x RENAGADE x 91]

see like said in the other thread a cup of coffee and he is up and ready to go

Glad ur ok mate

 

[DEADEYEx54x]

guys
on my phone so will post when I get back home. Just want to say, if any of you think I would of put any oil near my tank then you don't know me. Thank god it was me and not anyone else as I am ok but it could of been worse.
thanks for you wishes guys I will be back on when I get home
Nige

HA! Clearly a die hard P8nt fan, on his phone to check the foum lol.

 

[PreacherMan]

hey whats happened to you is every paintballer's worst nightmare

wish you a quick recover mate and everyone i am sure will be thinking of you

 

[SimonGiles]

I Believe STAKO quote a MAX filling rate of 100PSI a second, so if the compressor was flash filling then that's likely to be a contributing factor if not the cause.
As Leigh has already suggested the plastic liner only used by STAKO's may be the cause(When flash filled at least).

Hope you make a full and speedy recovery Nige

Wow - 100psi a second - is this definitely correct ? The rig today was filling me from 1000psi to 4000psi in about 1.5 seconds. I must admit, I thought at the start of the day, "that's one badass fill station - hope it's safe !". The only reason I wasn't going all the way to 4500psi was because it was filling so quick I didn't want to leave my gun on for any longer than it took to literally turn on / turn off again. I think perhaps we may have a potential answer to the cause here ... combination of 'very' flash fill + stako bottle.

However - what rate should other makes of bottles be filled at ? Does anyone know ?

THIS MUST BE A WAKE UP CALL.

One other point, what would have happenned if the explosion had damaged the cylinder bank that was stored less than 2 feet from the fill rig / site of the explosion ? I think we would have been talking multiple fatalities. There were probably 50 people at the time in a 30' radius - doesn't bare thinking about does it ?

I took 2 x 16 yr olds to their first tournament today. In the past I have spent considerable time convincing parents that paintball is totally safe.

Thanks out to Kitch, the Freekz and Bluey for handling the aftermath (plus whomever else was involved). We'll all be thinking of Nige (don't know the guy - but best wishes fella).

Where do we go from here ? What body can shed some light / facts on this stuff and define future procedure ?

And ban Stako's - hell yes ! It's just not worth the risk it ?

 

[Care_Bears]

Welcome back home Nige, put the fear of christ to somebody else in future, hope i wont need to be of service to you ever again, with respect (incident) glad to see everything is ok. See you at the 50

Bluey Care Bears Manager (You owe me hehe)