Re: Re: What will they do
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Originally posted by SlartyBartFast
What?!? :eek:
I seriously hope you were being sarcastic.
One of these days paintball risks being SERIOUSLY regulated.
Only in paintball are individual users allowed to fill their tanks. With SCUBA or Firefighting SCBA, a trained person does the fill and the fill is done inside and explosion-proof container.
I have to strongly agree with this statement. I can't tell you how scared I get everytime I go to Skirmish in PA and watch all the little 13 year olds filling thier own tanks, unsupervised! I mean there is this big button that you press and it fills your tank. I know there is probably some regulator that prevents mor than 4000 or so PSI going into your tank, but it still scares me. It is one of the reasons I don't go there very often. I am waitig for a similiar accident like this one to happen there one day, god forbid. There has to be rules regarding the filling of tanks etc. The local scuba shop by me can't believe that paintball fields do "fast" fills. Everytime my tank comes back and its hot because of the fast fill I wait to take it back from the guy who filled it. When he asks me why I am waiting I tell him just in case it is gonna explode, it can do it in his hands. That heat is NOT a good thing.
Re: Re: Re: What will they do
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Originally posted by madmatt151
I have to strongly agree with this statement. I can't tell you how scared I get everytime I go to Skirmish in PA and watch all the little 13 year olds filling thier own tanks, unsupervised!
Just look at the enclosures SCBA fills are done in.
And they fill them slow and cooled by water.
http://www.americanairworks.com/fill.html
I mean, paintballers are probably rougher on the equipment, inspect it less, hang the bottle by the regulator, and paintballers stand around doing fast fills right next to the tank! :eek:
If the pros use "fragmentation deflectors" it's because they've experienced a fragmentaion or two too many.
It's only a matter of time until some kid is turned into chutney while filling their tank.
At a minimum, the gun should be placed in a stand and the whole thing be covered by an enclosure while the tank is filling.
Holy !!:eek: I just read the whole of the page I linked to:
IMPORTANT!
During the last 5 years, approximately ten SCUBA, SCBA and DOT compressed air cylinders have exploded each year. 90% of these cylinders exploded while being refilled. ---- Bill High of PSI, Inc.
Percentage wise that's not a huge risk. But it IS happening.
Why ARE paintballers allowed to be so careless?