A reason for doing upkeep on your equipment!

[SuperKid]

http://www.doli.state.mn.us/airtank.html

Yikes! I wouldn't have wanted to be next to that thing when it blew!

 

[Winmon]

Here is some pics of someone else's tank exploding. It was not drained regularly....

 

[69lkmno]

Holy cow! I better start draining my compressor.

 

[3vettes]

Here is some pics of someone else's tank exploding. It was not drained regularly....

I'm gonna go drain mine right now!!!

 

[screwTheMan]

You could set it up to drain automatically!

 

[toolfreak]

Also on portable air tanks there is a date stamped on them that after that date you are suppose to destroy them.

 

[Big_John]

The end blew off the tank at a friends shop. He had just closed and wasn't home (2 miles away) when the cops called about the explosion.

There were several crankshafts next to the compressor that were broken in half and a 55 gallon drum was blown over the two cars in the bay, never touching either one.

 

[kutza]

i just drained the tank today. It will be a regular thing from now on.

 

[thefairlaneman]

Gezzzzzzzz Im going to drain my tank first thing in the morning,Did a stuck pressure relief valve cause the thing to bust open?

 

[PAToyota]

I've got an automatic drain on mine, but I'm surprised that it failed catastrophically like that. I've seen a couple tanks that corroded to the point of pinhole leaks, but not a catastrophic failure like that.