Yep i worked in AirForce on Hydraulics systems running at 4000 psi ave pressure. talk about some damage if a pin hole was in a pipe/tube or hose! It will cut through sheet metal like nothing! we also pressure tested and SET titanium Hyd Lines, which were pressure tested upwards of 25,000 PSI. we BLEW a few of them at that pressure talk about some MESS! Even inside the CRASH BOX it would scare the beegebbers out of ya... I was the Test Stand Mech for about 2 years and as such got the FUN of fabbing up a NEW CRASH box and trying out all the NEW hyd lines made, (the titainum ones each had to be SEt at MAX pressure otherwise they would straighten out and not fit the plane right!.)
had soem seal things that kind of looked like a muffler strecher tool to seal up the ends and one end would have a fitting to hook to the test stand, had to blead out all the air first as that woudl compress and make a bomb if not carefull.
anyhow one day I blew an ACCUMEULATOR 4" by 24" and it shot fluid about 35 feet across the shop and all over the place! did that on a saterday and took about 2 hrs to clean the mess up afterwards. but was probably less than a quart or two of fluid just a nice slick oozy spray.... /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif
One of the reasons you NEVER check for a LEAK with you're hands, can cut off a finger if not carefull... not to mention once it is injected usually the limb is nearly lost to infection and tissue damage! stuff is not to be plaied with under pressure....
Mark M
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