Hi,
Just to share a powerpoint slide on vessel pressure test that I received today. Some interesting photo.

Pneumatic_Test_in_Piping_Incident.pps (526 Kb, 142 downloads)

Very interesting Adam.Hope nobody was in the area at the time off liftoff.Any idea as to what kind of pressure they where using while the test was in progress that launched that much metal that high into the air.

There was a similar incident about fifteen miles away about 10 years ago at the Jolly Ranchers candy plant. The missile landed in the middle of a 4 lane street in front of the plant.

Low pressure gas and a squealer wouldn't work or even hydraulics for the piping? I've purged the pipes before and used gas w/squaker for electronic detection that'll even check the welds for pourisity.

But it's hard to fight stupidity! But happening in the USA !!! Wouldn't have believed it before Duncan's post. Wow!