Dewitt on mon 4 mar 02
Ran across this on the CPSC website. FYI.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - In cooperation with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety
Commission (CPSC), Ingersoll-Rand Company, of Woodcliff Lake, N.J., is
voluntarily recalling about 458,000 portable air compressors sold between
1983 and 1991. Internal corrosion to the inner wall of the air receiver
tank can cause the air tank to unexpectedly rupture allowing pressurized
air to suddenly and forcefully escape, posing risk of injury to consumers.
Full press release at:
http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml02/02108.html
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Dewitt Gimblet
dewitt@texas.net
Austin, TX
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Philip Poburka on sat 9 mar 02
Dear Dewitt,
Thanks for the mention.
If I had a used one here, I'd look at it with some study in mind...and your
mention would have directed my attention thusly, if it had been lax.
I guess they ought to have made 'em of the famed 'Allegany Metal' or of
'stainless' as some would have it...so as to mitigate against the otherwise
sometimes probable, maybe in-time-given-enough-time, inexorable eventuality
of 'rupture-bye-reduction-of-section-by-oxidation-attrition'...
Or, that 'Rust...never sleeps...'
Or to have put a 'day-glow' Circus font P.T. Barnum "Banner" sticker what
say "Do DRAIN the tank now and again, won't ye please'?
Tisk tisk...
Get a poor-man's Lunar-Excursion-Module when one of those puppies lets go.
Yup...
Poor ol' Ingersol Rand...they should have also said "PLEASE USE ONLY WITH
ADULT SUPERVISION"...meaning, 'drain' the TANK now and then, and do it with
the rush of AIR to dry it out nice as you please too...put a 'pet-cock' on
it so you CAN 'drain' it with a lot of Air behind it...evaporative drying
rather than draining out a gravity 'trickle'...or DO your Homework, as it
were, lest the undone OF it, undo you
As it is with the rest of 'life'...
Oh-well...they could say that...or we could know that, whether they say it
or not.
I'm sure that this applies to just about ALL Compressors that have a 'Steel'
Tank.
Keep 'em 'dry' with a frequent evaporative 'drain' proceedure.
An' everybody'll be happy...
Phil
Las Vegas...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dewitt"
To:
Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 8:34 AM
Subject: Ingersoll-Rand Air Compressor recall
> Ran across this on the CPSC website. FYI.
>
> WASHINGTON, D.C. - In cooperation with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety
> Commission (CPSC), Ingersoll-Rand Company, of Woodcliff Lake, N.J., is
> voluntarily recalling about 458,000 portable air compressors sold between
> 1983 and 1991. Internal corrosion to the inner wall of the air receiver
> tank can cause the air tank to unexpectedly rupture allowing pressurized
> air to suddenly and forcefully escape, posing risk of injury to consumers.
>
> Full press release at:
> http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml02/02108.html
>
> deg
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> Dewitt Gimblet
> dewitt@texas.net
> Austin, TX
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>
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