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Mortimer Schnerd, RN wrote:
Frank Stutzman wrote:
Anybody wager a guess if an exploding 1 inch PVC pipe could go through 1/2
inch plywood? The pipes couldn't be hit by anything, but summer heat
might soften the PVC to the point it would burst



Summer heat will do a lot more than soften PVC; it will raise the pressure of
the compressed gas.


If you've kept the same gas compressed in the same pipe since
winter....

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