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On Mon, 9 Jan 1995 GASDIVER@ao*.co* wrote: > BLAST ISN'T IN THE BEST OF SHAPE. GENE SAID IT WAS A "METRIC" VALVE SCREWED > INTO AN "AMERICAN" THREAD THAT SOMEONE BROUGHT IN TO HAVE FILLED. I'M > CERTAINLY THANKFUL THAT GENE WASN'T STRUCK BY THE VALVE!! HERE'S WISHING GENE > A COMPLETE & RAPID RECOVERY!! > This sounds the same at the story I was told when my 10l 300 bar tank was recalled. The story was that Poseidon had supplied a mix of tanks with either metric M25x2 threads or imperial G3/4" threads. The catch was that the submitted drawing only told about the M25 thread. The problem was found when a diveshop in Sweden managed to put a G3/4" valve in a tank with a M25x2 thread. They got the o-ring to seal and the valve blew at approx 50 bar. The government agency got Poseidon to recall this batch, but I had to pay Poseidon SEK 500 (=USD60) to get a new tank from them. When I returned the tank to the factory I heard someone say, referring to my old tank: "... here is another one of these tanks we are going to ship to Norway..." /Sten Meyer m87stme@mt*.ch*.se*
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