air bottle Retests

[James ECI]

Can anyone clarrify which bottles require testing every 3 and 5 years?

i know steel tanks are 5 and some carbon fibre ones

i think its SCI ones or something that are 3 years

 

[Pegasus]

REMEMBER!!!!

FIVE YEARS FOR FULL-FIBRE WRAPPED BOTTLES - EN12245 and Pi certified.

THREE YEARS FOR FULL WRAPPED BOTTLES - HSE-AL-FW2 manufactured before July 2003 then five years after retesting for SCI and Luxfer cylinders

THREE YEARS FOR FULL WRAPPED BOTTLES - HSE-AL-FW1

FIVE YEARS FOR HALF WARP BOTTLES

FIVE YEARS FOR ALUMINUM OR STEEL BOTTLES

From - http://www.ukpsf.com/paintballlaw.asp

Think thats what your looking for sci?

 

[James ECI]

cheers

 

[luke_y2k]

Was looking at the link above ( http://www.ukpsf.com/paintballlaw.asp )

and there's part about " Check your bottle"

Steel and Aluminium cylinders
In March 2002, European standards for cylinder testing were changed. The familiar old BS 5430 part 1 (steel cylinders) & part 3 (aluminium) were withdrawn and replaced by new standards - BS EN 1968:2002 for Steel Gas Containers, and BS EN 1802:2002 for Aluminium Gas Containers.

I should add that any other cylinders manufactured and certified to other specifications e.g. DOT are not legal in the UK

how ever all last big games i have been to i have been allowed to use the following bottle
Carleton
Born Date 2006/06
4500PSI / 310 Bar
PW310 PH465
TC-3FCM
DOT-E 11005

I am slighly confused now , also does any one no when the ReTest would be on this botte - i was under the belive it was a 5 year test, where these can only be retested 2 times and had 15 year life span

any ideas???

Cheers

Luke

 

[3L1TE hax]

yours should be every 5 years, but are you adamant there isn't a Pi sign anywhere on the bottle or a anythign that says it was tri-tested, if not it s not a UK legal bottle :s