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MustangMike · « **on:** November 22, 2011, 09:37:05 PM »

ok so my disco wouldnt take a charge earlier from my hand pump, so i went to pull the the foster fitting on the airtube to check for a clog, my gauge read 250psi wich is empty from my past use of this rifle when i depingged it. i thought it was empty.. i was very wrong.. 1900psi releasing in seconds in my face.. the wrench, foster fitting my my tubing used for the deping all went through thedry wall on the ceiling of my living.. i have no hearing in my right ear and my vision in my right eye is blurry.. nothing but air hit me in the face and i am now headed to er to get checked out.. i have no clue as to what went wrong.. the gauge said it was empty.. i dry fired the rifle and no air came out...

MustangMike · « **Reply #1 on:** November 22, 2011, 09:50:50 PM »

In the er now, thankfully I live 3 blocks from a hospital.. my vision is clearing up thank god, still have a ringing in my right ear with no hearing in my right ear cept for the ringing...

This was my fault, got to comfy and skipped the whole stick a screw driver in the degassing hole.. if I had done that id have felt the amount of pressure needed to degass it and would have known it was still under presure

grumpy · « **Reply #2 on:** November 22, 2011, 09:54:52 PM »

Man so glad to hear your OK ! Have you considered a springer ?

MustangMike · « **Reply #3 on:** November 22, 2011, 09:56:52 PM »

Lol I will be taking a break from pcp's.. plan to completely tear down the disco and find out why my guage was saying it was empty and why when dry fired it didn't shoot any air

dk1677 · « **Reply #4 on:** November 22, 2011, 09:58:21 PM »

Wow! Glad you weren't hurt badly!

MustangMike · « **Reply #5 on:** November 22, 2011, 09:59:45 PM »

far left hole was the wrench middle hole is the foster fitting and the 3rd hole i have no clue but assume it is the tubing for when i depinged it

had a couple of windows open and thankfully a neighbore was outside and heard it, they came knocking and i asked for a ride to the er

MustangMike · « **Reply #6 on:** November 22, 2011, 10:04:14 PM »

lol might not have been a massive failure but to me it was.. i was in the dinning room sitting in a chair, after it pop i was sitting on the floor of the kitchen up against the stove.. it didnt knock me over there but i dont remember getting up and walking to the kitchen

well as i said i screwed up, even tho when dry fired i should have tried to degass it that would have told me it was still under pressure... so let this be a lesson to every one double and even triple check before you start undoing anything.

im not in any kind of pain, other then a little blurry vision and ringing in my right here oh and the not hearing anything in my right ear im fine.. just shook up from it but i am still going to get checked out.. no blood from my ear so i dont think i did to much damage.. maybe about the same a a large fire work going off a few feet away

redone1992 · « **Reply #7 on:** November 22, 2011, 10:10:32 PM »

Glad you weren't hurt badly.
I all ways use a long rod i made to degas with.
Never trust any thing when working on ag,s.

MustangMike · « **Reply #8 on:** November 22, 2011, 10:13:46 PM »

thanks guys, at least i know its degassed now for when i get home..lol gotta go buy a sheet of dry wall and get some to the texture for the ceiling

Rico14 · « **Reply #9 on:** November 22, 2011, 10:18:16 PM »

wow, I'm glad all the pieces went straight up and not towards you. I hope you fully recover quickly. Keep us informed on your progress.

0351_Vet · « **Reply #10 on:** November 22, 2011, 10:30:35 PM »

Was Jager involved.......

?

MustangMike · « **Reply #11 on:** November 22, 2011, 10:31:33 PM »

Quote from: 0351_Vet on November 22, 2011, 10:30:35 PM

Was Jager involved.......?

nope stone cold sober... just made a stupid mistake by not trying to degass with a screw driver first

i wont be getting a tank setup anytime soon, and i need to order a new guage and fitting for the airtube so there is about a week to get delivered maybe longer with the holiday coming up..

just got checked out, they put a dye in my eye and then looked at my eye under a black light and there is physical damage other then the air that hit me.. i didnt take a full blast to my face. doc said if i had blown my ear drum i wouldnt be able to hear out of it and that the ringing should decline over night if not through out the day tomorrow. he checked with his cell phone if i could hear out of my right ear by putting a ear plug in my left ear and i could hear enough to understand what the lyrics where in the song he played.. reffered me to a ear doc for tomorrow to double check that no long term damage was done...

my hands are still shaking from this and my heart is still beating rather hard. but cant let this freak out to the point to where i wont shoot my disco but it will be a little while before i pressurize the airtube even after getting the parts from crosman.. lol i was writing down part numbers while waiting in the waiting area to get checked out.. doc made it a point to tell me how lucky i was because the wrench or fitting if it had hit me in the eye or head would ahve lodged in em and the tubing at that pressure might have been able to crakc my skull and deff would have had the energy to lodge in my eye socket..

aack73 · « **Reply #12 on:** November 22, 2011, 10:36:06 PM »

glad it wasn't an worse. hopefully the hearing will return with minimal loss. good thing didn't get a small piece of debris out of the air tube. when i took my mrod down the 1st time it had a lot of aluminum shavings from almost stripped out gauge block assembly. looked as though it got cross threaded. once again glad your ok. and didn't lose an eye

amb5500c · « **Reply #13 on:** November 22, 2011, 10:49:49 PM »

I'm glad it wasn't worse. But I'm also glad that you see it for what it was; a mistake. It should serve as a reminder to us all that HIGH PRESSURE IS NO JOKE.
Richard

MustangMike · « **Reply #14 on:** November 22, 2011, 10:56:12 PM »

Quote from: amb5500c on November 22, 2011, 10:49:49 PM

I'm glad it wasn't worse. But I'm also glad that you see it for what it was; a mistake. It should serve as a reminder to us all that HIGH PRESSURE IS NO JOKE.
Richard

amen, all tho something inside the disco failed.. i stopped shooting last night at 1900 pis but now that i think about it it was filled to 2000 when i started shooting and i shot about 10 shots and it only red 1900psi... should have been the fist sign there was a problem.. but i dry fired it several through out the day after installing the challenger stuff and no air came out, just a click of the hammer striking the valve and the guage said it was empty..

randomgunner · « **Reply #15 on:** November 22, 2011, 10:59:51 PM »

still want the pcp?
thats kinda the reason i didnt wan to get a pcp besides cost, have to rely on WAY too much stuff.
anyways, glad youre ok.

MustangMike · « **Reply #16 on:** November 22, 2011, 11:06:35 PM »

ya i still want the pcp just going to be awhile before putting pressure back in it

Norm_m · « **Reply #17 on:** November 22, 2011, 11:09:05 PM »

Mike I'm very glad to hear you are OK as this could have been real bad! As Richard said WE ALL NEED TO PAY CLOSE ATTENTION TO WHAT WE ARE DOING AT ALL TIMES WHEN WORKING AROUND HIGH PRESSURE AIR!
IT CAN BE DEADLY Mike just used one of the cats nine lives!
Norm

Deane · « **Reply #18 on:** November 22, 2011, 11:18:16 PM »

Quote from: mustangmike on November 22, 2011, 10:31:33 PM

Quote from: 0351_Vet on November 22, 2011, 10:30:35 PM
Was Jager involved.......?

nope stone cold sober... just made a stupid mistake by not trying to degass with a screw driver first

Really glad to hear you're OK mike. It's always the "stupid mistake" that gets you. I was hydraulics/pneumatics on F-4 Phantoms and worked with 3,000 PSI systems. I saw the results of a number of "stupid mistakes." One resulted in one of our sergeants torn open from butt to belly button with a broken thigh and a broken hip because we took a "short cut."

Climb back on that horse as soon as possible. The longer you wait, the more timid you'll be. (Only after you've completely checked out the problem of course.) Say a prayer of thanks this Thanksgiving.

If it was me, I'd have to pick up a new pair of skivvies too:-D

MustangMike · « **Reply #19 on:** November 22, 2011, 11:21:44 PM »

i got a little bit of shock or vertigo going on.. slightly light headed, heart is still beating harder then normal.. its either shock, vertigo or just the realization just how bad this could be.. i almost threw up in the er y stomach start knotting up.. called my grandmother who was a nurse for 30 something years.. she came by and checked me out her self even tho i went to the er...

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