Have you ever heard that a cylinder can turn into a rocket that will go through a concrete wall if the regulator breaks off?
Well this settles the discussion.
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Makes you wonder how safe it is to give O2 cylinders to home oxygen clients who are perhaps older, less agile and more prone to accidents. I suppose an E cylinder would do less damage than the video but still enough to harm. A collegue told me of mine workers he knew who would take E tanks to a lake by the mine, snap off the top with a sledge hammer and watch them skip across the water. Their pass time was discovered when a cylinder count came up short (nearly 200 tanks) and no one was hurt.
I was recently discussing this video with my brother the Mechanical Engineer and we thought it would interesting to see what would happen if you did this with an aluminum E cylinder?
Obviously a large steel tank has more mass and a lot of force (Force=mass*acceleration) but both tanks have the same pressure, so the small aluminum tank should initially accelerate faster. But the E cylinder has a smaller volume of gas and would begin to decelerate sooner. So what would the real difference be between the two types of tanks?
Basically I think someone needs to test this. I know it isn’t going to be me. We’ll leave this to the experts and be happy just knowing that tanks can be a hazard.