Goonhub
03-28-2013, 07:55 AM
It's absolute bullshit to have the bottom pipe blow up all the time, and there's no way around it whatsoever when taking the approach.
Not to mention it doesn't make the engine safer whatsoever - you're still putting a lot of pressure into the lower reservoir tank which will eventually cause it to not only be useless, but also make the situation much, much worse since there is a fire inside it building pressure and turning the valve would just compound the problem by adding even more pressure to the lower pipe system.
In a way, its a last ditch effort to relieve pressure. You can't vent the reservoir tanks and you can't vent the lower pipe in any way, shape or form right now apart from hoping that the pump will do its damn job. Once you see the difference in both the upper and lower pipe, an engineer should be able to identify the problem and wait until it gets to about bursting pressure before turning the valve, at which point you cannot turn that valve again since the pressure would build to catastrophic levels in the reservoir tank and would cause more of a problem if turned.
Take it as a get out of jail free option for an engineer; they only have the option once and it may not necessarily fix the fact that pressure is building so fast that the outflow cannot keep up pace. It will only delay the ineveitable unless an engineer does something clever to vent the engine - and even then, the engineer has just wasted a good amount of plasma/oxygen/trace gas
Not to mention it doesn't make the engine safer whatsoever - you're still putting a lot of pressure into the lower reservoir tank which will eventually cause it to not only be useless, but also make the situation much, much worse since there is a fire inside it building pressure and turning the valve would just compound the problem by adding even more pressure to the lower pipe system.
In a way, its a last ditch effort to relieve pressure. You can't vent the reservoir tanks and you can't vent the lower pipe in any way, shape or form right now apart from hoping that the pump will do its damn job. Once you see the difference in both the upper and lower pipe, an engineer should be able to identify the problem and wait until it gets to about bursting pressure before turning the valve, at which point you cannot turn that valve again since the pressure would build to catastrophic levels in the reservoir tank and would cause more of a problem if turned.
Take it as a get out of jail free option for an engineer; they only have the option once and it may not necessarily fix the fact that pressure is building so fast that the outflow cannot keep up pace. It will only delay the ineveitable unless an engineer does something clever to vent the engine - and even then, the engineer has just wasted a good amount of plasma/oxygen/trace gas