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Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 17:31:44 -0500
To: Steve Boer <sboer@fl*.ri*.co*>
From: Mike Rodriguez <mikey@ma*.co*>
Subject: RE: Equipment Questions
Cc: "Sean T. Stevenson" <ststev@un*.co*>,
At 04:31 PM 2/23/99 -0500, Steve Boer wrote:

>Havent you seen the whole discussions on here about removing the burst
>disk assemblies before? Most of the time the tank neck o-ring will go
>prior to the burst disk..this is not always the case as i've seen quite
>a few burst disks go, but before the tank would reach a bursting point
>I'm sure that the o-ring would go....just my $0.02

This is true, but in my case, the disk was corroded and weakened.
It blew even though the tank was well within it's rated
working pressure.

In any case, I neglected to mention in my original post that
I no longer have a burst disk... it was replaced with a plug
after the incident and before I ever went in a cave.

-Mike

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