Southern California MAP cylinder misuse federal lawsuit

Federal lawsuit settled month before this lecture (~May 2013) after judge threw out plaintiff's case for perjury. Tom and colleague were going to testify that plaintiff was smoking methamphetamines and MAP cylinder failure resulted from being thrown/abused, not from manufacturing defect. References Mount Shasta burn testing.

And then the one that settled just a month ago — been going on for 3 years — was a guy in Southern California who was smoking methamphetamines. People really like MAP for smoking methamphetamines because it has high heat intensity — you can vaporize the methamphetamine quickly and get a bigger high, I guess. I don't know — this is what I've learned by reading this stuff. He claimed he wasn't. It's not a good idea to throw these to the ground as hard as you can — I estimate people throw them at 45 miles an hour, looking at the fracture energy. If I were to release all the gas in this, it's only 10 cubic feet if it was full of liquid. The flammable limits of MAP and acetylene are like 2 or 3% by volume.