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Atlantis
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I need to know what burst disks are generally made out of

Alluminum Foil, Newspaper,.....That's all I've heard of.
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thin plastic,balsa wood,shopping bags tape.
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circles cut out of the sides of plastic soda boddles
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There is a big, thread about this on spudtech. (I think that it's around 4 or 5 pages).
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Thank you. I need to start making some.
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I made a small hybrid and iam going to try sprit can disks, Idk if they will work. But try useing 16 layers of allumion foil.


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I've never messed with bursts disks, but something about a peice of a can or 16 layers of foil does'nt seem right.
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No he's right many layers of foil does work and so does side of soda cans they burst at about 60psi with my 1inch barrel.
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I think that it is better to use weaker burst discs and more times the mix then tough burst discs, twin spark and the other extras.
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