Co2 Versus Nitrogen

[ciaran.mooney]

Originally posted by team_3wisemen
ciaran do you even know what a siphon is its just a tube u put in your tank so no liquid gets in your system the presure of your hp tank dosent even make diff in the # of shots you get just the ci's i dont even know why u post so much u really dont know a whole lot

A Siphon tube as it suggests sucks *liquid" from a bottle, thats why they use it in the Co2 fill stations to make sure you get all the liquid out. Some markers do run on this, but they dont prevent liquid being drawn. An *anti-siphon* will prevent liquid being taken into your marker, to an extent. I do know most of what im talking about and if im not sure i say so.

The pressure does matter in how many shots you get out of a tank, the higher the pressure the more gas that has been compressed and more gas means more shots. True the CI of a tank does make an obvious difference in how many shots, but a 3000psi 68ci will hold less than a 4500psi 68ci tank, half less infact.

 

[Matski]

Nitrogen is not illegal in the Uk. Wdp's site have compressed air tanks and nitrogen ones (and I cant see how theres any difference between them either).

 

[Micah]

ciaran - Who is this kid and why the hell is he picking on you so much? I think we need to have him flogged or something.

 

[ciaran.mooney]

I really dont know. Maybe team_3wisemen has been missinformed about things such as HPA, and he didnt believe what I said.

 

[KillerOnion]

A word about the SP co2/air bit. No, their 68 piggy tanks aren't interchangeably usable with co2 and nitrogen. This is a somewhat long story, but I'll give you the quick version. The old style Maxflows were sorta interchangeable for the reason of giving Shocker owners the option of using a 68 cui size tank to be filled full of co2 to give them an acceptable shot count, which was most likely to be their route of choice. It's an unscrewable tank with an on/off valve. However, some wanted to use nitrogen and could because it was in fact a 68 HPA bottle that could be filled as such. They learned, however, that once you picked one or the other, you had to stick with one because co2's coldness changed the inside of the bottle to where it was only suitable thereafter for co2....could leak or blow up the Maxflow if filled with nitrogen, especially if filled over 3000 psi accidentally. So to prevent recurrance of that problem, Smart Parts eventually opted to make all nitrogen Maxflow systems with the bottle not fitted with anything resembling permanently attached to the reg and thus not able to be filled with co2. You can still get the 68 sized co2 tank, but it will only work in conjunction with the on gun Maxflow manifold or vertical inline Maxflow.

 

[Arrival]

So let me get somthing straight. I can get C02 filled at the feild or at proshops? One of the rec-ball feilds I go to dosen't seem all too fancy (headquaters is a big trailor), and if they don't fill up N2 and I'm out of shots I'm screwed? Well, I guess I can rent a C02 tank from them, but I'd rather use my own 150-190$ (haven't decided yet, heh.) N2 tank, ya know?

 

[Micah]

You could get a Scuba tank and a fill adapter called a fill station. Then you fill you tank up to 4500 at the proshop, and you fill the scuba tank up to 3000, then when your tank pressure falls below (or get's empty) then you will fill up to the pressure left in the scuba tank. it wont be a full fill obviously, but it is better than no fill.

I hope that made sense.

-Micah