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Not to nitpick your useful post, but I have been reading gradually escalating equivilents, in pounds of dynamite or TNT, for the explosive force in a SCUBA tank for some time now, starting out at about 2 lbs and now up to your 50, to the point where I am wondering why we didn't just drop all the old 6351-T6s on Iraq or Bosnia - at your figure they clearly offer a bigger bang for both the buck and the lb. than most conventional explosives. BTW, last thing I heard Luxfer was returning a singificant number of the tanks sent to them, when Luxfer techs could not find the cracks that the dive shop did, which amounts to an even worse deal - you pay shipping both ways, and end up with the same old tank (which in many cases the dive shop still refuses to fill!). Anyone thinking of taking them up on the deal ought to check the track record of whoever condemned the tank first. Jerry wrote: >Sustained Load Cracking in the crown threads is a very real and serious >problem with aluminum cylinders of all makes.=A0 The equivalent explosive >force is approximately equal to that of 50 pounds of 50% TNT going off.=A0 >It can maim, kill and destroy everyone and everything in sight. -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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