air help

[le-pig]

my air bottle(catalina) was made in feb 1999 ive just been to my local dive shop and they say it has to be tested every 2 years and then visually inspected every four years
i thought steel/alliminium tanks were ok for five years
who is right here,me or the tw@t of a shop

 

[Billy No Mates]

the guide lines ive always been told with regards to paintball, is that any form of air bottle has a 3year test life.
In which case your bottles out of test anyway.
i personally wouldnt want to run the risk of pushing it to 5 years, because i really wouldnt want the thing to explode.
for the sake of 30 quid, and a few weeks away. its not worth getting picky. id just do it.

 

[le-pig]

ta
any1 know where the nearest shop is to this rock

 

[le-pig]

help

 

[smartecosse]

doesn't really matter where the shop is does it? just post the bottle recorded delivery and its there next day (unless u live in scotland the posties here just do what the f*%k they want!!) test is done and then its returned to you.

oh, and wheres my MMMMMMMOOOOOONNNNNEEEEEEYYYYYYYYY

 

[le-pig]

ochaye,ill post it now
any addresses / links /prices for dive test sites

 

[Davo at work]

Air Tests

The Airforce1 guys do it (the boys with the big red truck at the Series 2002 events) I think it costs £32 including postage to get them tested, Heres the e mail they sent me:

If you send cyl to us at
H-PAC SERVICES LTD
UNIT 1 OLD DOMINION EST
WITHY ROAD
BILSTON
WEST MIDLANDS
WV 14 0 RX

We use jiffy bags from post office, they also insure any parcels sent, we
return by parcel force insured carraige 24 hr service.
Cost of test and carraige is
£20 for test
£7.75 carraige
ex vat with vat comes to £32.60 turnaround 5-7 days

regards

Trevor

Hope this helps

 

[Billy No Mates]

as you clearly have contacts, the next question is -
DO all valves have to be removed? or can they do that for you?
as i know from previous experience that forcing them off can kill the bottle and/or reg/valve?

 

[Davo at work]

Valves

I'm afraid my knowledge stops back there somewhere!

I' sure they will remove the valves for you, give me a few minutes and I'll find out, they have said that the most tests are failed because of the threads rather than the bottle itself and is mainly down to people using loctite on them, so I would not chance messing up the threads by trying to get it off your self.

Cheers

 

[le-pig]

ta billy and davo that was my next question