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Plugging the disks can get you thrown out of many shops if you try to get fills when traveling. A know that many people double the disks. This has the same effect as plugging, but it still looks like you have the proper burst disks. As far as I know, only Uncle (granny?) Sam requires these things. They are a hold over from the old tank valve configurations and, as pointed out by Trey, they are nothing more than another failure point in the era of O-rings. Wendell Steve Schultz wrote: > > Thanks. > > Just a little survey: > How many tank neck orings have you guys blown, and what were the suspected > reasons? This was my first. > > What about the noise this would've made? I wasn't around to hear them go. > How long would it have taken the air to escape? > > I'm still a little apprehensive about plugging the disks. I've never seen > one blow, and no one I know around here has plugged them. > > ss > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Trey <trey@ne*.co*> > To: Steve Schultz <se2schul@st*.ma*.uw*.ca*>; <quest@gu*.co*>; > <techdiver@aquanaut.com> > Sent: Monday, June 11, 2001 9:41 PM > Subject: RE: So I got home and my tanks were empty... > > > They got too hot and blew it out - that is why burst disks are for > morons - > > the ring goes. > > -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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