[Shop-talk] Airline Piping

[Mike Rambour]

   Yup and people drive hundreds of thousands of miles with no 
accident then they are dead in one minor accident.

   People drive (I am guessing) 180,000miles on their motorcycle with 
no accident then Soccer Mom runs a frigging stop and broadsides you 
(But I am not dead)

   You saw air line hoses flap around and did not get hit lets say 
lots of times, do you want that smacking you in the back of the head 
or your yahoos belows the belt, might not kill you but it sure will 
make you wonder if that extra few dollars would have been worth 
it.  Then again, it might kill you, you never can tell the strength 
of those hoses and where they hit you.

  In the case of those hoses,  its almost guaranteed they will just 
hiss away until you shut off the compressor, I bet you have a better 
chance of winning the lottery then getting hurt by one, but that 
stainless wrapping will hurt quite a bit when it becomes a chunk of 
shrapnel.  Sometimes safety has no price.

         mike

>Did I miss something here?  We're talking rubber with steel braid?
>Maybe 3 feet long?
>
>It'll make a loud "Pssst" noise and wiggle around a bit won't it?
>Then it'll stop wiggling and go "whoosh" until you turn it off?
>
>I've never seen a hard line break but we'd occasionally drop something
>hot and/or heavy on those 1? inch hoses when I was a helper back in
>the pipeline days and it's like a fighter with a pretty good punch and a
>30 foot reach but no control.  You might get hit but probably not.
>
>About as scary as a grease pit half full of carbon monoxide.


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Mike Rambour
Bug Writer err...Programmer
       mikey at b2systems.com
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