Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Huge Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: DEC and The Americans Date: 16 Feb 2016 09:09:42 GMT Organization: Piglet's Pickles & Preserves Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: <20160213084837.d82e9cdc99c27ad4fb5caa59@eircom.net> <87oabkwcud.fsf@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> <9f45e501-8e5c-478e-a87b-6547e219887c@googlegroups.com> Reply-To: usenet@huge.org.uk X-Trace: individual.net 5rKIo6rxZc1FK7SnZATriw/rTz2D5nhfDzne1OXRiSSNLClJZc Cancel-Lock: sha1:EscPsBEBqDC4bNn4ATzNAQ1ruX8= X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett X-No-Archive: Yes User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Darwin) Xref: csiph.com alt.folklore.computers:159479 On 2016-02-15, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > On 2016-02-14, Huge wrote: > >> On 2016-02-14, Morten Reistad wrote: >> >>> The increase in diving tank pressure from 200 to 232 bar (~3000 to ~3400 psi) >>> arised almost exclusively because the steel strength increased that much >>> between 1955 and 1995. This started in Europe, but the Americans got in >>> on the act pretty fast. And, yes, the increase in strength happened mostly >>> ca 1985 onwards. >> >> I took my tanks in to be filled at a commercial dive place on the Isle of >> Skye. >> >> They put 315 bar in them. > > Holy cow. Once on a trip we took our aluminum 80s (3000 psi) to a shop > where someone couldn't tell they weren't steels and filled them to 3500 > psi. In the name of safety we dashed off to the nearest dive site and > breathed them down as quickly as possible. :-) That's how I dealt with mine, also! -- I don't have an attitude problem. If you have a problem with my attitude, that's your problem.