descent
Contributor
Anyone taking the time to build extra safety into a system deserves the highest praise. Just imagine one of your kids working with this new thing for eight hours a day, getting tired and careless.
Or I suppose it could be my kid.
Anyway, if you end up using steel pipes, try to line the steel with PVC or some other material softer than the paint or the aluminum of the tanks. The fill monkey / operator will be lifting tanks in and out continuously on the weekends. It is bad customer service to scar up the pretty tanks.
If all eighty cubic feet of air come out of the tank at once in the middle of an empty cow pasture, the grass will flatten and the sky will shift a half a millimeter, but no one will care. The entire county will hear it, but really, no one will care.
If all eighty cubic feet of air come out of the tank in an enclosed area, the walls will be moved back until the pressure equalizes. If this happens inside your trailer, your trailer will be peeled open like the foil around a burrito, and chunks of your trailer will be flung at astonished onlookers at high subsonic speeds.
Eighty cubic feet may not seem like a lot. It's about 22 or 23 military footlockers in volume, appearing in a few milliseconds. Things will quickly move out of the way, even very heavy things. Make sure nothing important is in the way. Blast injuries are sharply increased by immovable barriers behind the victim(s).
I have seen pegboards with tools hanging on hooks around the tank filling area. High quality steel tools can be blown through common building materials like drywall, aluminum siding and cinder blocks. After they are traveling at high speed in the great outdoors, they can embed themselves deeply in people you care about.
Again, you have my admiration. Best of luck.
Or I suppose it could be my kid.
Anyway, if you end up using steel pipes, try to line the steel with PVC or some other material softer than the paint or the aluminum of the tanks. The fill monkey / operator will be lifting tanks in and out continuously on the weekends. It is bad customer service to scar up the pretty tanks.
If all eighty cubic feet of air come out of the tank at once in the middle of an empty cow pasture, the grass will flatten and the sky will shift a half a millimeter, but no one will care. The entire county will hear it, but really, no one will care.
If all eighty cubic feet of air come out of the tank in an enclosed area, the walls will be moved back until the pressure equalizes. If this happens inside your trailer, your trailer will be peeled open like the foil around a burrito, and chunks of your trailer will be flung at astonished onlookers at high subsonic speeds.
Eighty cubic feet may not seem like a lot. It's about 22 or 23 military footlockers in volume, appearing in a few milliseconds. Things will quickly move out of the way, even very heavy things. Make sure nothing important is in the way. Blast injuries are sharply increased by immovable barriers behind the victim(s).
I have seen pegboards with tools hanging on hooks around the tank filling area. High quality steel tools can be blown through common building materials like drywall, aluminum siding and cinder blocks. After they are traveling at high speed in the great outdoors, they can embed themselves deeply in people you care about.
Again, you have my admiration. Best of luck.