The dangers of HPA

[Tom Allen]

When i fill i always have my bottle pointing towards the ground to try and prevent accidents so it just buries itself =/

Damn.. i hope he gets well soon and he has no internal bleeds

If the reg seperates from the bottle, the reg, gun, hopper and your hand will go the other way, pretty quickly.

 

[JamesH]

If the reg seperates from the bottle, the reg, gun, hopper and your hand will go the other way, pretty quickly.

Damn, is there any safe way to fill with minimizing risk to everyone including myself?

 

[Tom Allen]

just keep your equipment in good condition, always use a nipple cover, and when the air lead becomes harder to fit, replace the fill nipple as it's worn.

 

[Zorg]

Heard stories of high pressure tanks of CO2 going off where I used to work and punching holes through concrete walls.

 

[Bolter]

Bottle pointing down, guages away from yours and others face, keeping it all at arms length, so your not looking down onto the fill rig or your setup. If marker attached, exactly the same procedure.

Still makes me wink at my seat when I am stood next to someone who is also filling and does the exact opposite of what is considered safe!

And then go out on the field, run as fast as you can towards the snake and then throw yourself and the bottle at the floor

Quick run from the new swine flu!

 

[EELZ]

fair play to the medics that came to his aid in the vid. 5 mins from the accident happening..!! where they shopping next door or something.??

 

[Rabies]

it's mentioned that an adaptor was used to fit the current sized reg into the larger older threaded bottle. If i remember right the older bottle's thread is 18mm with a fine pitch, and the current bottles are 5/8 unf (16mm). There's not a lot of difference between them to fit an adaptor.

That adapter has sheared off at the base of the tank thread - it looks like there's a short section which was threaded both inside and out, leaving it with a dangerously thin wall section. It the adapter had been made a few mm longer then the weak point could have been avoided.

 

[Tom Allen]

i would imagine the adaptor is just a sleeve, threaded internally and externally. The external thread would be 18mm, and the internal 5/8" unf(16mm). Fitted onto the reg it would effectively change the regs thread to 18mm, but as we've both said "not a lot of metal there to play with".