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Well said Hans. You nailed it on the head. The main point is to eliminate failure points. Chris -----Original Message----- From: Hans Petter Roverud <proverud@on*.no*> To: techdiver@aquanaut.com <techdiver@aquanaut.com> Date: Tuesday, February 23, 1999 10:43 PM Subject: RE: Equipment Questions >Burst disks, in my view, try to correct a non-existing problem, thus adding >another failure point and no benefits. As mentioned, if you expose a tank >to a fire the O-ring goes long before the tank explodes. European tanks are >not equipped with burst disks and we don't exactly miss them. Doubling the >burst disk may correct the problem, but it doesn't address the issue >directly. US and Canada, please convince your authorities that burst disks >are obsolete and get rid of them! You may say J-valves are a misconceived >safety precaution but this is even less useful. With most issues there's a >trade-off between benefits and disadvantages -- in this case there are no >practical benefits whatsoever! > >regards, > >Hans > >-- >Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. >Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. > -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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