On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 15:42:34 -0500, "ATP*" wrote:


"Bill Rude" wrote in message
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On 21 Feb 2005 17:20:35 GMT, Dave Hinz wrote:
On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 11:06:01 -0700, Bill Rude wrote:
On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 01:48:21 -0600, Richard J Kinch
wrote:
Jason Marshall writes:

I turn my regulator down to about 15 psi and turn my 3-year-old loose
with a blow gun all the time while I'm working in the shop.

Do you know the bursting strength of the tympanic membrane?

Quiet, Darwin is at work here............

I didn't know an eardrum was needed for reproduction.

There's other places where 15psi might be deadly.

Yeah, I've heard that story too. Compressed air seems innocuous because it's
"just air". But it can be dangerous in a number of ways that might not be so
obvious.

NEVER "goose" a co-worker with a high pressure blow gun - it
becomes very nasty.
Gerry :-)}
London, Canada