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Re: what is considered good compression?
Posted to Technical Discussion Forum on 9/24/2012

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To answer your question directly, I think that 100.0 psi compression is the minimum required to cause the mixture to detonate. At 99.5, it won't fire, at 100 or more, it will.

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