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    Protective "Blast Cage"?

    This is what happened to me a couple of weeks ago. I bought a new .25 Avenger and a chinese 4 stage hand pump on ebay. On the second use, at 3500psi, it sounded like a grenade. It took a solid week for my hearing to recover. I don't know what failed first, but the female QD was broken and still...
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    Recognize this unbranded PCP compressor sold under a brand name? Reliability?

    Thanks fellas! I'm a helicopter mechanic and have worked with high psi fluids and gasses all my life. I should have known better. I will be very skeptical of any hose now, and will not use brass QDs. Also, the aluminum filters are suspect to me now. In the future I may add some type of clamp or...
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    Recognize this unbranded PCP compressor sold under a brand name? Reliability?

    Yes I was lucky. I was in the middle of the downstroke when instantly the pump was no longer in my hands, I couldn't hear and knew something had hit the inside back of my thigh. I couldn't tell how badly I was injured, but slapped a sterile bandage on it and wrapped it in a bath towel I picked...
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    Recognize this unbranded PCP compressor sold under a brand name? Reliability?

    I just last week had a chinese hose explode at 3500psi while hand pumping my Avenger. Sounded like a hand grenade and put 14 stitches in my thigh. My hearing is still slightly muffled from the blast. I don't know for sure what failed first, but I suspect the female brass QD fitting. Do most of...