Questions over safety regarding 12 grams Co2 & Steel Pip

[Blitzen]

How come all these other people (not only the ones shown in the pics, but ones from other forums) think that they can hook up a 12g Co2 Canister to a metal airchamber and since its metal, there is no way it can burst like a PVC chamber?

[judgment_arms]

Ignorance is bliss, until something blows up in your face.
Some of them may use high pressure fittings, others hydraulic fittings and tube, still others like carrying bombs around.
But mainly it’s ignorance.

[Blitzen]

Ah, is there anywhere online where I could order like a 12" section of a super super super high pressure pipe fitting. Basically what I am trying to do is build a compact cool looking paintball grenade launcher.

[judgment_arms]

Basically what I am trying to do is build a compact cool looking paintball grenade launcher.

Aren’t we all?
Try McMaster-Car.

[Blitzen]

What do you suggest? Brass? Iron? Steel?

[biged]

Steel.

Some of them may use high pressure fittings, others hydraulic fittings and tube, still others like carrying bombs around.

Actually steel fittings leak. There is no catastrophic event.
A unrated line or connection would fail upon initial pressurization, and leak.

Even cutting steel 2000-3000 psi air lines just leak. Steel is not as brittle as PVC.
Welding pressurized air lines (and flammable gas) is real difficult.

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[judgment_arms]

I thought the threads would fail and a fitting would blow off; not a bomb, but dangerous none the less.

Oh well, as my grandma puts it, "the day you stop learnin’ is the day you die."

[biged]

If a massive volume suddenly dumped from a large tank into a unrated fitting I can see the fitting failure and the object spinning and maybe taking flight. Anyone with access to such volumes would know better than to fill a experimental tank (Gun) with a massive pressure dump.

If it were pressurized from a high-pressure hand pump it would leak within 10-20% of the fittings' rating. It would simply hiss and the pressure would drop.

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