Welcome to ScubaBoard, the world's largest scuba diving community. Registration is not required to read the forums, but we encourage you to join. Joining has its benefits and enables you to participate in the discussions.
Benefits of registering include
And that is why there are no burst disks on European tanks?fire_diver:I'm confused by te question.
People who put a 4000psi burst disk on a LP tank, are just doing that to facilitate over filling the tank from it's intended pressure. The engineers who designed the tanks would tell you that is dangerous, but people have been doing it every day, for as long as scuba has been around I think.
Comrade Stroke
deepblueme:Not just that but back in the day people would fill the plug that holds the disk in place with lead to get "overfills".
Gilldiver:And that is why there are no burst disks on European tanks?
The neck O-ring will fail well below burst pressure.
Gilldiver:The neck O-ring will fail well below burst pressure.