Re: Nitrous, anyone?

[SailingFC@aol.com]

I have the N.O.S. brand in my '78.  N.O.S. does not mention anything about 
taking the bottle out when your not using it.  This would be a major pain due 
to the fact that you must undo the fittings.

One thing I did notice is that picture with the bottle peeled out flat and 
the base of the bottle sitting there.  The material appears to be aluminium.  
N.O.S. uses steel bottles except in their smallest setups.  In fact I've 
never seen a pressure vessel NOT made of steel.  Even your 5 gallon portable 
air tanks are made of steel.

If the "NHRA" spec'd in the 3000 psi rupture disk in the blowdown tube, I 
think it would be quite reliable.  And the bottle certainly would have a 
significantly higher burst pressure than 3000 psi.

On the idea of the bottle warmer, I don't believe anyone would have designed 
a bottle warmer that would overpressurize the bottle under normal conditions. 
 That would be downright criminal.  Now the N.O.S. warmer is designed to self 
regulate at about 85F according to the catalog.  If the warmer did "fail", 
why didn't the 3000 psi rupture disk do its job(if the bottle really reached 
3000+ psi).

Therefore I think it was the aluminum material(bad design) and there was a 
defect or possibly some physical damage to the bottle which eventually gave 
way.

My $0.02
-Dick-
78 Scirocco
Original Owner
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(Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering, Cal Poly, SLO)

> 
>  > >From: Scott Williams <sfwilliams@home.com>
>  > >
>  > >Oh. My. Gawd...
>  > >
>  > >http://www.enhancedhealth.com/nitrousexpress.htm
>  >
>  > >Scott F. Williams
>  >
>  >
>  > Yeah- i saw this yesterday and forgot to post it.
>  >
>  > Pretty effective article, except for the miracle fat burner ad at the 
end.
>  >
>  > So he admits to leaving the warmer on, right?
>  >
>  
>  Don't the Nitrous companies suggest you not leave the bottle in the car 
when
>  you are not going to use it right away?  Or is that one of those common
>  sense things?
>  Would it have been Nitrous Express's fault if he had been rear ended with a
>  car full of people on the way to a movie theatre and the bottle had blown
>  killing everybody in the back seat?
>  IMO, the guy was a dumbass and wants NE to pay for it.
>  

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