Saturday, February 11, 2012

You'll Put Your Eye Out!


Airgun is designed so that you have to point it at yourself to check the pressure.

Boing-boing.

4 comments:

Roberta X said...

From Amazon review: "...the gauge is only used when filling the air tank, which is REMOVED FROM THE GUN FRAME AT THAT POINT, and once threaded onto the pistol, does not have to be viewed again."

This is even more amusing in light of the article Boing-Boing links to.

...And it sure looked insane to me at first sight.

Drang said...

Roberta X: Looking up the stuff I keep forgetting to...
...and who has too many followers, for a given definition of "too many"; so Turk wins A Major Award!
I'll feel like a git if you have more followers than I could figure out...

Windy Wilson said...

Saying, "...the gauge is only used when filling the air tank, which is REMOVED FROM THE GUN FRAME AT THAT POINT, and once threaded onto the pistol, does not have to be viewed again."
doesn't make this any safer. It's sort of like a more-lethal q-tip.
Now, if the gauge couldn't be viewed while installed, it would of course, be different.

Old NFO said...

Unsafe at ANY pressure... sigh... Obviously a design by an engineer that has never shot anything!