JamesFarmer
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Build tutorial?
No one should attempt to build a high pressure machine with out ASME tested vessels and a team of engineers. You could kill yourself and others with one mistake, best case you will bust your eardrums not good odds for the loner winging it.
Even with the most reputable builders we still had problems with getting quality work. The pressures and stress put on the machine are extreme. Parts have to be tested to 3000psi and gaskets and valves are made of Teflon. Even with these over-engineered parts there are failures regularly. We spend more time testing and repairing the machine than running it, truly a labor of love.
I have to disagree to a limited extent. If an individual is foolish enough to attempt the build and blows themselves up then they have done us a favor. We call it Darwinian Selection.
ONE CAVEOT: THOW SHALT NOT BLOW UP THY NIEGHBORS!!
Seriously, I have seen the result of the catastrophic failure of tanks that were subjected to similar pressures. You would have though that someone set off a bomb. Also, the tank that failed was a heavy steel tank that partially fragmented upon failure.
Lucky that nobody died. The IDIOT filling scuba tanks had overfilled an HP tank (BAD PRACTICE) and left the fill station set up for 4200 psi. He then took an old 63cf steel tank from a customer and hooked it up, started filling and walked away. I watched it unfold. I headed for the exit pausing only long enough to tell the IDIOT "you have a problem there". I was gone before it blew up but I read about it in the news the next day and went back to have a look. Amazing what a tank of compressed air can do...