BrokenBiker
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just watched colin furze's latest vid about hydroforming steel using a pressure washer.
now ages ago I wanted to weld up a tank that needed to hold 35 bar, however I had no safe way of testing it to prove it safe so didn't bother doing it. cant actually remember what it was for now.
so, I have a pressure washer, and a few regulators and all the plumbing gubbings. am I correct in thinking that even at a pressure of like 100 bar, if the vessel being tested splits, you get no more than a jet of water out of the split, and then the pressure is released and no big bang and bits of steel shrapnel flying left right and centre as you would with pneumatic pressure testing?
now ages ago I wanted to weld up a tank that needed to hold 35 bar, however I had no safe way of testing it to prove it safe so didn't bother doing it. cant actually remember what it was for now.
so, I have a pressure washer, and a few regulators and all the plumbing gubbings. am I correct in thinking that even at a pressure of like 100 bar, if the vessel being tested splits, you get no more than a jet of water out of the split, and then the pressure is released and no big bang and bits of steel shrapnel flying left right and centre as you would with pneumatic pressure testing?