Got shot right between the eyes with the steel dead-head plug with 3500 psi behind it. Broke my glasses and lost one of the lenses as it went flying somewhere. This after bleeding the hose, or so I thought, after performing a leak check. Turns out I thought the quick disconnect was just stuck, because I couldn't get it loose to remove the dead-head plug from the hose end fitting, so I tried prying it with a screw driver and visegrip....It shot the plug straight out into the bridge of my glasses and knocked me out for a second. obviously the hose was still pressurized, even though the air in the bottle valve had been bled off???? The culprit was the nylon washer inside the fitting connection for the fill-whip on the bottle end; It had been squashed so tight, while trying to stop the air leak, that the hole in the middle was squashed shut, trapping the air in the hose at 3500 PSI.....I did not know that could happen.....my guardian angel is still working overtime.
I am realy getting tired of all the leak problems I constantly deal with on my compressor and guns. My comppressor wouldn't pump over 300 psi soo tried relacing the rings on the hi-pressure piston ....there is no ring gap, so couldn't get the new rings on, so i bought a new compressor, my third one. I got my 4 PCP guns out to fill, after a couple years of non-use and every one leaked...A first-gen FX Imppact .25, a Daystate Wolverine 303, a custom Quackenbush .50 and a cheap AT Nova Liberty .22. My squirrel traps have stoppped working too; only the smart ones are left.....they seem too know that none of my guns are working and have strippped my fruit trees and destroyed my ,vegetable gardens. I'm going back to real guns! They are more reliable and safer.
I am realy getting tired of all the leak problems I constantly deal with on my compressor and guns. My comppressor wouldn't pump over 300 psi soo tried relacing the rings on the hi-pressure piston ....there is no ring gap, so couldn't get the new rings on, so i bought a new compressor, my third one. I got my 4 PCP guns out to fill, after a couple years of non-use and every one leaked...A first-gen FX Imppact .25, a Daystate Wolverine 303, a custom Quackenbush .50 and a cheap AT Nova Liberty .22. My squirrel traps have stoppped working too; only the smart ones are left.....they seem too know that none of my guns are working and have strippped my fruit trees and destroyed my ,vegetable gardens. I'm going back to real guns! They are more reliable and safer.
