There is an out of print book "Novel Drilling Technoques" that in the second edition talks about cutting sandstone at several meters per second with liquid pressures of that magnitude. Granite I think was 7cm per second if memory serves. Obscure technology.
Anyway, you can lose a lot more than just soft tissue. Even a couple hundred psi can inject you like a hypodermic needle. Probably wouldn't be a good thing to happen. Kirk -----Original Message----- From: girl mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 1:00 AM To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [biofuel] Introduction and some questions - Newbie > > Has anyone looked at the pressures produced by >direct injection fuel pumps? The Dodge/Cummins direct injection pump puts out >24000 psi... Hmmm by the way , those kinds of pressures are very dangerous for reasons beyond just the capacity of the container/component design. I know someone who worked on ships- and had a story about a fuel system that had a fuel leak on the high-pressure end of the fuel system. They knew it was there but couldn't see the exact location of the leak, and they had the good sense to test for it by running a broom along the suspected area of the fuel lines- looking for the moment when the broom bristles would start to shear off from the pressure. Apparently it was well known that if you were to be careless in this situation, and would have stuck your hands or body in the path of the high-pressure leak, you'd have been likely to lose some fingers (or ears, or whatever) cut off by the high pressure stream of diesel coming from the pinprick hole in the system. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
