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Date: 07 Jun 94 05:33:23 EDT
From: David Hallsworth <DAVIDH@BV*.MH*.Co*.CO*>
To: SCUBA-L  LIST <SCUBA-L@br*.br*.ed*>,
        tekky diver <techdiver@opal.com>
Subject: Blazing Cylinders
Message-ID: <940607093322_555063.0_DHL32-1@Co*.CO*>
X-Acknowledge-To: Mark Boyles <EDAMB@IB*> MSG

David Hallsworth said:
>
>Bill LaBarge wrote
>
>>All SCUBA cylinders have overpressuization disks that would upon
>>significant
>>rise in temp, blow out and probably melt even before that.
>
>well this is the first I have heard of these disks, can anyone report their
>function, and tollerences, are they in the valve, or somewhere else.

Aluminium tanks weaken severely when heated and will probably rupture
long before the burst disk melts or blows out due to the rise in
pressure as the tank heats up.  I don't know about steel tanks though,
how much do they weaken with temperature?

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