Diskussionen om tuberna

Dagens blogg om tuberna har skapat mycket diskussion både i Sverige och USA. Ifrån en bekant på Yellow Forum så har jag fått följande kommentar till saken, alltså den rostiga tuben från en MRod.

"I own a compressor company and work with high pressure air. My opinion is that is a time bomb with an unknown fuse. It will kill people. Real simple. That gun was only a few months old, what happens when all of those bombs get 5 years old? 8? 10 years old? You put it under pressure the fuse is lit. Those materials are not of good quality or not treated right. There is no excuse for a nearly new tube to be corroded like that. You know it is not good and rust gets worse with time. I have been inside airguns over 20 years old and NEVER seen anything like that.
What about the end caps? Those are corroding. When an end cap or air tube fail you have a bomb or a missle. either way it can not turn out good. I can not believe something like that was Made in America."

Bruce Dodson
AireTex Compressors
(214)402-5574 Mobile
(817)633-5505 Office
www.airetex.com

 

JW652

19 juli 2010 21:30

This IS a huge issue. It IS a time bomb. Not only with Crosman - but the industry at large.
The Sportsmatch GC2 was on of the finest airguns ever produced. In terms of quality, it was light years ahead of most PCPs on the market today. And yet, one of its finely crafted, Swedish steel tubes failed after a 200 BAR fill. Fortunately, when it exploded the operator had turned away and was injured - but not in a life threatening manner. He was very lucky. Sportsmatch immediately ceased production and only about 400 of these fine rifles were ever produced. John Ford understood the potential consequences and the real possibility of failure - even using the finest materials available.
Does anyone seriously believe that the Chinese care if one of their cheap products causes personal injury? Who are you going to sue? What good will it do?
Crosman is treading on very thin ice. There is no excuse for marketing a pressure vessel that is subject to corrosion and, yet, has no inspection or maintenance schedule. If the build quality wasn't so spotty that tuning and modification is a necessary requirement for the end user, this problem could have remained undetected until the inevitable occured. Hopefully this will open their eyes - or the eyes of their lawyers.

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