Compressor age limit

[not done it yet]

Wow. That’d be interesting to see.

You (most certainly) would not ‘see it’. The difference, fyi, was in the volume of grease injected to the receiver, when completely full of water, to raise the pressure to the test value. Perhaps a bit technical for some to comprehend.

 

[brightspark]

I've seen several of them fail.
They just pin hole and leak air or dribble water.

thats about rite. all this doom and gloom about split exploding tanks isnt going to happen im not saying it cant but there will be something else going on if they do. ive had a few flexible pipes blow up like baloons and bust one right behind me backside on the floor didnt crack on at 1st what it was

 

[Popcorn]

You have to take this in perspective, an acetylene bottle exploding is basically a BOMB and doesn't bare any resemblance to a air receiver......

 

[DanZac]

You have to take this in perspective, an acetylene bottle exploding is basically a BOMB and doesn't bare any resemblance to a air receiver......

The only difference being that acetylene is flammable and air isn't.

200l of air at 10bar is still going to have some considerable force behind it if it did rupture.

As has already been said, you can just hope for the best. Or you could take the end caps off, have a good look inside and if in any doubt, hydraulically test it.

 

[Popcorn]

I was only pointing out your analogy was way off, I mean you did say you'd seen a acetylene cylinder blow up. The other thing is air receivers usually split they don't go bang and land 400 metres away.

 

[mike os]

Air tanks tend to pinhole and leak, not explode

High pressure bottles tend to fail at the valve, and usually because of mechanical damage… like dropping it on the valve or pulling over with the collar off… (if you do this you are simply an idiot) which can be spectacular but the only real danger is the valve body or bottle gett chucked a bit.. probably not life threatening unless you are in the immediate path of either part.

Acetylene is a totally different ball game , but you know I’ve never seen or heard of anyone stupid enough to put it in a compressor.