Accident reports?

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Thu Mar 22, 2007 1:25 pm

Well, after all these useless debates about "ABS vs. PVC", i've noticed a trend: "PVC WILL SHRAPNEL!" or "EXPLODE!" It makes our hobby seem extremely dangerous. I don't doubt the apparent threats but does anyone have any accident stories or maybe photos of some of these accidents?

Just thought maybe with some newspaper articles or bloody photos of these threats actually occurring, it could deter more of these accidents from ever happening. (I'm not even sure if that made sense)
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Thu Mar 22, 2007 1:27 pm

IIRC Fuzzy Scorpion got some pics of his Hybrid when it failed.
Lucky has pics of his busted union on his site too, I think.
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Thu Mar 22, 2007 5:17 pm

There are a few on you tube I think of cannons blowing up.
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Thu Mar 22, 2007 5:31 pm

BC Pneumatics wrote:IIRC Fuzzy Scorpion got some pics of his Hybrid when it failed.
Lucky has pics of his busted union on his site too, I think.
Can I get some links?
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Thu Mar 22, 2007 5:47 pm

yeah, some links to these sites might be nice please
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Thu Mar 22, 2007 6:35 pm

1st one is only on spudtech AFAIK, and the 2nd one is Luckythirteen13's potato hell. google should pull it up pretty quickly, gotta run.
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Thu Mar 22, 2007 7:35 pm

thanks.
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Thu Mar 22, 2007 8:45 pm

Most of the stuff of broken spud guns you find on youtube and google is from people making spud guns from stuff like...plantpots.
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Thu Mar 22, 2007 9:07 pm

Well I had my LAW roll off the table (bad side of round cannon) with pressure in it, luckily all it did was snap off the elbow that had the pressure gauge on it, and that it wasn’t loaded because it went off.
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