Accidental Tank Overfill - Should I be worried

[spectrum]

As others have stated the cylinder has suffered no harm. Even after an hour that gas was still quite warm inside the cylinder. If allowed to cool is would have dropped a few hundred PSI on it's own. I dive mostly HP steels and am grateful for an occasional 3800 PSI warm fill.

Diving with that fill may have stressed a yoke regulator connection so bleeding it down some was probably prudent.

Pete

 

[Superlyte27]

Kinda funny, I was filling a tank for a friend last week. At 4000psi I asked "how much do you want in these?" He didn't finish getting the sentence out "put whatever you fills yours to" when the burst disk gave way.

Newb... needed a real burst disk

 

[mmcdanie]

Catalina here I come. Thanks again for the knowlege from experience.

 

[wedivebc]

I don't run my compressor over 3500psi but I did fill a pair of steel 72s (rated for 2250) to 3500 the other day by mistake. Since I only use those tanks for running my booster it seemed like a good time to top off some O2 bottles.

 

[idive2]

I just drained off a couple tanks myself. I have low pressure steel tanks with standard burst disks. While I appreciate a good fill as much as the next guy I absolutely do not want my psi within 10% below the burst disk rating of any of my tanks. I have read where a burst disk will fail as early as 10% below its' rating. I don't worry as much about the effect of the extra psi on the tank but the increase in psi that may already be close to the burst disk doing its' job.