Extruded!

Yep it did that as well as spew oil all over.

oh wow...

V.

Can you say a mess?

I forget what it is that makes them hit the hydraulic system with bad pressure spikes. Someone ran me through how those things work at some point.

Kinda bet on that accumulator's diaphragm leaking, then once the thing's full of fluid instead of having a gas cushion on the other side you get massive pressure spikes that blow hoses (and apparently blow the cover off the accumulator)

I'm the sorta cheap bastard that'd try and toss a new diaphragm at it.

Much smarter to just pressure wash it, slap some paint on and throw a couple bolts at it. Make it all pretty for the auction.

There is more wrong with it... it's not worth trying to fix.

I would guess at least double that pressure for something as heavy duty as that to fail, but this is nowhere near my expertise, only a guess.

Or more, most times you plan for a three to one safety factor.

I don't have the knowledge or experience with compressed air/hydraulics to know :)
All I do know is that the buddy tank style cylinders I use with my custom target air guns are rated to 3000 psi and "bad things can happen" if you get stupid with them (hand grenade anyone?).
Thankfully, they have burst seals designed to fail before that can happen :)

Ive had a 3500 psi dive tank strapped to my back... they make a mess when the let go. The too have a rupture seal too but sometimes something hits the fan...

How very true, you clearly know I skimmed over the basics :p
In other words; respect your equipment and look after it to reduce the chances of failure, and pray it doesn't fall into the 1%

Yep.

Looking at the things that come from you, I remember how as a child my mother took me to the factory, and I saw a lathe, huge in size. The man in charge of it was sitting near the chisel, which had gnawed into the metal of a huge workpiece. and he seemed like an ant in comparison with the machine and this workpiece.
all this still seems incredible and majestic. but it also makes it clear, since your last photo session, that no matter how a person boasts of himself and his achievements, mother nature and the earth still have more splendor and strength. When will we learn to understand this ...
the other day my sister decided to take part in the competition of pendants and their designs. She remembered the moment with the world tree of good and evil, and the tempter snake. I also thought, what if we suppose Eve did not take the apple. Probably, the first people were still able to gain wisdom so that, having tasted the apple, by God's permission, they could behave more rationally. without being mired in sin. Humanity could develop in a different way.

Yes Mother Nature wins...

I don't know if things would have worked out much differently if the apple had not been eaten... the lower nature of man would have still been there and sooner or later it would come to the surface.