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Sure I get that. A hole will be like a water cutter. I was thinking more like a screw with resistance along the threads such that the pressure goes from 5800 p

• salawat 3y ago
  At that point, you're counting on the material that thread is sunk into to be capable of withstanding that pressure without brittle fracture, and from the wrong side. A screw is there to resist being pulled out. If water got to those screw threads as you posit, that'd basically be like reversing the forces to which that fastener was meant to resist. You go from "big chunk of material to hold in screw" to "little triangular threadforms trying to stay joined to the material around them in spite of 5800 psi trying to transit a pressure gradient insisting otherwise." I'm not saying it's impossible, I'm just saying if I remotely thought it was possible to end up in that situation, I'd be going back to the drawing board to try to rule out that possibility. My brain just shows me visions of a screw turned into a bullet that barely gets slowed down going through a human body after threadforms crush like tortilla chips, a water cutter blasting through somebody into the opposite ablating a hole and causing a cascaded failure that then shortly thereafter becomes diesel thoomp. If you'll excuse me, I'm abandoning this train of thought.