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Date: Mon, 25 Sep 1995 14:12:16 -0700
To: rich@mk*.co* (Rich Neiswonger)
From: cherf@ci*.co* (Scott Cherf)
Subject: re: DIN/scooter crash - shear force
Cc: bernie@in*.ne* (Bernie Chowdhury), techdiver@terra.net

At 1:55 PM 9/25/95, Rich Neiswonger wrote:
>>Ken Shallot asked:
>>
>>> So tell us, how hard of a crash did it cause for this DIN valve to
>>> shear?
>I have witnessed a shearing of a smaller poseiden first stage from it's yoke
>adapter after falling off a VW van onto rocks near a mexican cenote.
>It was a pretty good fall. (The tanks tumbled forward.)

Isn't this more or less why God invented valve guards?  I mean, shearing
force is one thing, o-rings are quite another.  I would assume that the
o-rings remained in place in this example?  I would guess that the 1st
stage snapped off at the base of the DIN connector?

Scott.

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