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> Well I have caused a fuss.

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> My car has no stickers of any kind at all, and it regularly carries 2-4
> cylinders, I have heard stories of cylinders, damaged in collisions flipping
> cars over, most probably untrue, but none regarding fire, perhaps that is
> because fire is thankfully rare.

Here in the states, fire is what they put burst disks in tanks for. I
might mention though that a few weeks ago for absolutely no reason a bust 
disk let go in a tank that was sitting in my garage. The tank (and disk)
were about a year old. Its something to think about when you have no backup
air supply.

As for accidents, I always place tanks in my big car so that the valve
faces forward. My reasoning is that if someone rear ends me and a
valve is snapped off, I don't want to be hit by a missile that I didn't
trigger. Of course the valve itself can be the equivalant of a 100
caliber bullet....

> David Hallsworth

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