> "Rob" mine.com.au> wrote in message
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> news:48b87a64$1_9@news.peopletelecom.com.au...
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>> Did you also note that the cylinders are filled to a pressure of 1850psi
>> and minimum 2.87 mm (0.113 inch) wall thickness.

>

>> And you guessed that your LPG bottle does not have that pressure either.

>

>> Gas cylinders (CIG) have something like 2500psi are a much thicker wall
>> and tested on a regular basis.

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>> I can think of a few reasons metallurgically why they can fail. Pitty
>> they don't have the bottle. They still have to find a reason as the why
>> it failed. Is there any other instances of this type of failure.

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>> r

>
> You've got the very next best thing though.   All of the other bottles on
> the plane which should have the same number of hours and cycles - as well as
> thousands of similar (and older) bottles around the world.
>
> I know it won't help if something unusual happened to this unit, maybe it
> was dropped before it was installed or it was corroded - but odds are,
> there's another one like it that is in 'pre-failure' mode.
>
> --
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> Cheers
>
> Dave Kearton