Air compressure warning

[Rfish]

Originally Posted by TimG

I bought my Sears air compressor in 1975 when I was in college. It maxes out at 85 pounds, but I'm sure that could cause a problem.

That’s 85lbs pressure per square inch multiplied over the volume of the tank so yeah, it’s still scary to think of the damage that could cause. This is one of the reasons the Europeans have very strict inspection criteria on pressure vessel certifications. Here in the US, not so much unless related to industry/business and even then it is not well regulated..
I work on equipment that had a large pressure vessel certified to 600psi which we operated to 310 PSI. When we decided to have some upgrades done the UK vendor refused to work on it because it had not been recertified within their guidelines.