Jim,
Again, many thanks. I will go surf to the company website and keep the thread posted as to the progress. Nothing better than shooting the world's largest potato gun or punkin chunkin device so to speak.
Wally
JimCasey,
We thought about using the rupture disks as you had presented. I called a company that made no fragmenting disks and they wanted $175 per disk...hmm. We shoout the present 3 inch tube about 20 times per day 5 days a week and have been doing so for the last 16 years. The expense seemed...
JimCasey and Stanier,
Good input from the both of you, thanks. I went surfing a little more and found a quick sliding gate valve in the ~15-20 milliseconds manufactured by ATEX Explosion that could be modified to bang open at the same speeds. Stanier thoughts drove me down that path and the...
Folks,
First things first: I am not a valve guy, period. I do not profess to know anything about valves other than the ones in the kitchen and bathroom. I am a test pilot and flight test engineer, I know airplanes, and that I just got transplanted to a Systems Engineering role for a leading...