scope:

This is the 3rd edition (1994), as cited, when purchased you will also receive the current edition.

The four tests in 5.1 through 5.4 are required to be conducted when there is a new cylinder design or a significant design change.

These tests are to be conducted, and the cylinders must pass all four tests, prior to starting quantity production and introduction of a specific cylinder model into service.

Cylinders to be tested must be selected from a pilot production run of cylinders of a sufficiently large quantity to permit the use of planned production equipment and procedures. Cylinders to be tested will be typical of those produced in an actual production operation.

All test cylinders are to be complete and of a quality suitable for service, including shell, filler, solvent, valve, core hole packing, pressure relief devices and painting.

Cylinders used in any of these tests must be scrapped.