I always wondered as to the fragility of carbon fibre air bottles, i was surprised when i watched this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_El-4k7xds
I always wondered as to the fragility of carbon fibre air bottles, i was surprised when i watched this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_El-4k7xds
They're not a pure moulded lump of carbon fibre, they're a composite made by wrapping a thin wall aluminium tank with the carbon fibre to add strength.
Rather neat bit of engineering.
Interesting video, id guess if you did that to a regular tank it would suffer catastrophic failure and completely burst open.
It does give you confidence of how sturdy these tanks are - a 500fpe lead slug totally disintegrated on impact, that is a lot more than a drop in the car park and it's focused on a single point. I'm not surprised a .308 FMJ bullet pierced it, your looking at around 2300fpe at that range!
James
Making a mockery of growing old gracefully since I retired
Well fortunately there is an arsehole out there who will.
If younwant.to see a real lemon head at work...google scuba tank guilotime. He built a french style guilotine for the valve.
See those steel tanks fly like exocetes.........and dint forget to dodge the occassional one that comes.back at ya....
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To one shot one kill, you need to seek the S. Kill only comes from Skill
so thats the release from a small 2L? tank, would hate to have a failure of a 12L one.
Is there a calculation of stored energy of compressed air in tanks?
In a battle of wits I refuse to engage with an unarmed person.
To one shot one kill, you need to seek the S. Kill only comes from Skill