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Originally Posted by daepp
All was proceeding well, until it wasn't. Some imperceptible flaw, or some imperceptible bump on the ramp caused the whole bottle to fail at right about the top of the ramp. 60 year old glass shards (no safety glass here) went everywhere, and while no one was hurt, it took me days to pick every bit of glass from the 5' diameter pool of change on my floor. Live and learn I suppose...
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I had an old carboy from my wine making days. I decided to repurpose it for a pressurized water tank. I had taken an old refrigerator up to the "ranch" house. It had an ice maker but the well water there is horribly mineralized with iron. Any ice cubes came out brown. I figured I could pump in enough air into the carboy to run bottled water into the ice maker. I cobbled up a rig to do that. I was testing it to about 20 psi to see if my seals on the siphon rig were holding air. Well that worked well but during the night the whole thing went off like a bomb. Lucky no one was around it or they could have been hurt. Yeah, glass everywhere. I felt real stupid after that one.
