Why I don't like Nitrous - Turbo-Owners.com

JoeThaMan · 03-05-2007, 11:54 AM

This happened about 5 years ago when i was working for Baxter Auto Parts full time. We had just received a new NOS bottle (Yes, an actual Nitrous Oxide Systems bottle) with a safety valve attached and were filling it for a customer. I was filling it at the NOS fill station. I hooked up the bottle and the large bottle was pressure filling the small bottle. I looked at the gauge and the bottle pressure was at 600psi. I went to hook up the air hose to the nitrous pump and just as I reached over the bottle to plug in the air hose, there was a loud "POP" and a cloud of white smoke. The safety valve failed at 600psi and since the safety valve had the cap on it, the spray didn't shoot directly outward, it sprayed in 4 direction (cap has 4 small holes in it). It sprayed me on my arm which was bare, and my side. My side wasn't that bad, but my arm was in the spray for a split second. Here is a pic the day it happened.

jrlewis0550 · 03-06-2007, 05:08 AM

Damn i bet that hurt, and isn't that similar to say a liquid nitrogen burn. Its just so cold that it burns. Is that picture from what it looks like now or back then.

Billyburnout · 03-06-2007, 11:29 AM

You know Joe if you had used a Zipploc bag you could have avoided that freezer burn.

JoeThaMan · 03-06-2007, 08:48 PM

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Originally Posted by jrlewis0550

Damn i bet that hurt, and isn't that similar to say a liquid nitrogen burn. Its just so cold that it burns. Is that picture from what it looks like now or back then.

That's how it looked the day it happened. You can't tell it happened now unless you really look. It's hard to tell whether it was from the pressure or from the temperature of the gas (exits the bottle at -60 deg F). It really didn't hurt, kind of stung for a day, but after that it itched more than anything. I still work at Baxters, but I don't fill bottles anymore..