sorry off topic i know. but has any one got a 4500 fill since the last stako incident ? or is every one filling to 3000 only
Nothing to do with the alleged Stako incident but all sites/organisers complying to the UKPSF air policy must only offer HP Air to 3000psi. (if they offer a higher fill it could effect their own site insurance and would also nullify the UKPSF insurance)
The reason is a health and safety issue and because regulators on 3000psi rated bottles and regulators on a 4500psi bottle stupidly have the same fill nipple there is obviously a possibility someone could put the higher pressure into a lower rated bottle.
To make sure a customer cannot put the wrong pressure in only the lower pressure should be offered.
Let me make it clear the policy does not say 4500psi is dangerous at all and that pressure would be offered if the manufacturer's fitted a new non-interchangeable fill nipple on the higher rated systems.
That would entail they put a different thread in the regulator so the new nipple can not be put in the wrong reg.
Russ