Air Compressors: A ticking bomb in your shop
Story Date: 7/28/2022

 

Source: Dan Anderson, AGWEB, 7/26/22


Study the physics, do the math, and a 40-gallon compressed air tank pressurized to 100 psi has the explosive power of a stick of dynamite. Depending on circumstances, that’s enough to blow all four walls out of a two-car garage. There are hundreds of documented cases where buildings were destroyed and people were maimed or killed when compressed air tanks exploded.

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