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| − | [[Image:Pop_safety_valve.jpg|right|thumb|250px|A 125psi pop-safety valve]]A '''safety valve''', also known as a '''pop-safety valve''' is a | + | [[Image:Pop_safety_valve.jpg|right|thumb|250px|A 125psi pop-safety valve]]A '''safety valve''', also known as a '''pop-safety valve''' or '''pop-off valve''' is a specialty [[valve]] installed on a [[chamber]] to prevent over-pressurization. They are available in a wide range of pressure ratings, from [[pressure]]s lower than you'd want to use in a spudgun to pressures higher than a [[PVC]] chamber will hold. |
These are most commonly installed when you are using a [[pressure regulator]], so that if it malfunctions it won't fill your chamber to the point where it fails, although no such event has been <i>recorded</i>. | These are most commonly installed when you are using a [[pressure regulator]], so that if it malfunctions it won't fill your chamber to the point where it fails, although no such event has been <i>recorded</i>. | ||
| + | Sometimes if you strike up a conversation with the plumbing guy at Home Depot/Lowes about building a combustion cannon, they may attempt to sell you a safety valve, even if the cannon you wish to build is a lowly hairspray inline. | ||
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Latest revision as of 01:33, 6 July 2008
A safety valve, also known as a pop-safety valve or pop-off valve is a specialty valve installed on a chamber to prevent over-pressurization. They are available in a wide range of pressure ratings, from pressures lower than you'd want to use in a spudgun to pressures higher than a PVC chamber will hold.
These are most commonly installed when you are using a pressure regulator, so that if it malfunctions it won't fill your chamber to the point where it fails, although no such event has been recorded.
Sometimes if you strike up a conversation with the plumbing guy at Home Depot/Lowes about building a combustion cannon, they may attempt to sell you a safety valve, even if the cannon you wish to build is a lowly hairspray inline.
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