Dont you have to put them on scales so you dont over fill? Or after a few years its guestermate on the waight?
How to fill a co2 bottle?
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You could weigh it if you can be arsed, but if you listen to it while its filling you will notice a hissing sound inside the bottle, when it stops its full.
Be careful the on/off valve and/or asa can get very cold don't get stuck to it when you put your ear up to the bottle to listen, or you'll end up like that guy from dumb and dumber when he tried to like the frosting off the ski lift.
Be careful the on/off valve and/or asa can get very cold don't get stuck to it when you put your ear up to the bottle to listen, or you'll end up like that guy from dumb and dumber when he tried to like the frosting off the ski lift.
Also, hold the burst disk facing AWAY from your face if you're using the "listen to it" method... 
Bear in mind that you dont need to dump the entire bottle to chill it down.
If whilst dumping a bottle at a fill station you but the bottle under the vented gas, it will chill the bottle quicker.
Once there is a frosted layer on the bottle stop dumpin, and start filling.
Another neat trick to know when a Anti-Syphoned bottle is full, is when filling the bottle, all of a sudden the frost on the outside of it will melt. Stop filling. the temperatures have equalised. and any more filling, will just put liquid into the bottle.
As for listening to a bottle. im not too comfortable with the idea of hold a potentially explosive item that close to my head.
If you grip the hose that fills the bottle, tightly, you can feel the gas moving through it. when you can no longer feel the movement, the pressures are equal, and you can close the fill tap.
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If whilst dumping a bottle at a fill station you but the bottle under the vented gas, it will chill the bottle quicker.
Once there is a frosted layer on the bottle stop dumpin, and start filling.
Another neat trick to know when a Anti-Syphoned bottle is full, is when filling the bottle, all of a sudden the frost on the outside of it will melt. Stop filling. the temperatures have equalised. and any more filling, will just put liquid into the bottle.
As for listening to a bottle. im not too comfortable with the idea of hold a potentially explosive item that close to my head.
If you grip the hose that fills the bottle, tightly, you can feel the gas moving through it. when you can no longer feel the movement, the pressures are equal, and you can close the fill tap.
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not if your running an ANTI-syphoned marker.
Liquid is bad for the health of many markers out there.
Vapour is good. Liquid is bad.
T believe early spyders, and tippmanns run on liquid CO2, so fill till your hearts content, (or something explodes).
But cockers, impys, and most other newer markers run on CO2 vapour.
Liquid is bad for the health of many markers out there.
Vapour is good. Liquid is bad.
T believe early spyders, and tippmanns run on liquid CO2, so fill till your hearts content, (or something explodes).
But cockers, impys, and most other newer markers run on CO2 vapour.
But I thought that with anti-syphon, u still put liquid into the bottle, and the bent-tube thingy only stops the liquid being drawn into the gun when u attach the bottle back onto the gun?
Or do you just mean that with anti-syphon fitted, we shouldn't fill the bottles all the way to the top?
Or do you just mean that with anti-syphon fitted, we shouldn't fill the bottles all the way to the top?
Tippy 98's work fine with anti-siphoned CO2 (vapour co2). I think he was refering to the older tippy models and still today alot of pump guns work on liquid co2.
This has to be the day of air systems now though, some sites have coverted there rental markers over to air. Lets face it, its cheaper for a site to run rental markers on air in the long run.
Air systems i.e. fixed, have come down alot in price in the past few years. This has made it affordable to users with maybe a entry level electro like the spyder e-markers.
Co2 seems to make me more worried than air. Its because there is no fill guage on the tanks so you cant get a presise fill.
But on good air systems, you can watch the tank pressure fill up and then fill it just under the max fill! Safety first!!
errrrrrr,yes,when the gas is chilled down it turns into a liquid thats why you have a anti syphon in the bottle to stop liquid co2 entering the marker.when it warms up it expands vastly and turns back to a gas.its also measured in liquid ounces