Air bottle leak

[paintball pete94]

hi, i haven't had my bottle for very long and it seems to be leaking out of the neck once it has been filled, it then stops once the air pressure gets below 1000?

what needs to be done to the tank??


Thanks, Tom

 

[red dragon]

Leak

You may have to re place the burst disc on the neck of your bottle?

 

[Tom Allen]

when you say it leaks from the neck, do you mean from the joint between the bottle and reg or from the reg.

 

[k4p84]

Knowing the make of the reg would make this a lot easier.

Could be leaking from between the bottle and the reg. There is an o-ring on the top of the reg bottle thread. That may need replacing or reseating.

Burst disks. These would be unlikely since they would vent the entire bottle pressure rapidly not slowly leak. It is possible thought that the air is leaking past the disk if the retaining nut is not torqued down fully.

Fill nipple. fairly easy to test, just put your finger over the end and see if the pressure builds up. Remove it, rebuild / replace it.

Leak thought the reg face. This would signify an internal o-ring issue. refer to the manufacturer manual an rebuild the reg.

A few common sense things:

Make up a water and washing up liquid mix. squirt it onto the reg and you will see bubbles from where the leak is.

Lastly and by far the most important, do not out 3in1 oils, etc into your reg. Always use manufacturer specified lubes !!

Ed

 

[paintball pete94]

when you say it leaks from the neck, do you mean from the joint between the bottle and reg or from the reg.

it is leaking from the joint between the bottle and the reg.


it is a pure energy reg.

 

[Tom Allen]

then you need to get someone who is qualified to sort it, or if it's under warranty send it back.

The bottle and reg need to be seperated, the threads cleaned and a new o-ring fitted.

 

[paintball pete94]

then you need to get someone who is qualified to sort it, or if it's under warranty send it back.

The bottle and reg need to be seperated, the threads cleaned and a new o-ring fitted.

couldn't someone just tighten it up for me, thats what my local site said.

 

[Tom Allen]

it's probably loctited on

 

[paintball pete94]

it's probably loctited on

which means???

 

[Tom Allen]

the reg is glued into the bottle with a substance called loctite.