That’s nowhere thick enough to be a pressure cooker. It’s a soup pot. Cheap one.
was contained in a pressure cooker with nails and ball bearings, and it was hidden in a backpack.
The thing going on here is that the bomber does not expect to use the pressure cooker again. All he needs is a container that will stay intact for a couple of seconds while the black powder combusts far more fully than it would under other conditions.
When the pressue cooker lid fails to seal against the power of the expanding gases inside, it lets loose explosively and the gas rushes out pulling with it the debris used as shrapnel.
Agree. Way too light for a pressure cooker. There isn't even a place for the seal. It's just a wrecked pot.
I take it back, it’s a pressure cooker more like a saucepan. I have one like that I just now looked at it. (’fraid to use the thing) Has a long handle on one side, short handle on the other. It has a rocker/pressure release, not a round numbered gauge. The pot itself is heavy, the lid not so much.