I don't think it was intentionally designed in this way, but from an airgunner's perspective our most likely failure scenario would be from internal corrosion, should water condense and accumulate in the tank. The aluminum liner would corrode away, and then the air pressure would probably work through the resin that binds the fibers. I don't know that I would call that a "slow leak" scenario, but it certainly would not be an explosive decompression . . . most likely a loud pop and whoosh as the resin lets go.Any absolutely know for a fact IF the engineers design the slow leak scenario into the tank ? I mean that the slow leak is the design as a safe guard ?
Of course the burst disk is the intentionally designed in safety feature, from an over-pressure situation . . .
The duty cycle these tanks see in most airgunning scenarios is laughable - minimal handling, typically filled slowly, rarely drained down by even half before being refilled, and fewer of those less loaded cycles than fire stations do. As long as we keep water vapor out they should be fine for a very long life.
But each person has to make their own decision on their own tank . . . .
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