Major Co2 Prob!

[tompinckard]

Hey i have just bought a co2 can from here
http://www.bigdickspaintball.com/acatalog/Co2-Bottles.html

i have bought the 20-oz CO2 Bottle - EEC (with on/off valve and anti-siphon)
(last one on that page)
i filled it up today.. and the guy who filled it up said it doesnt fill up to half of wat it should have??? it only lasts one 10 min round.. with about 50 shots!
I know they can be very dangerous.. so i dont really want to fiddle with it!
Please Help!
Thanks

 

[bmw]

contact the shop you bought it from if you have problems with there items'

the guy did try to freeze the bottle before he tried to fill it , right?

 

[Rabies]

Sounds like the guy filling it doesn't know what he's doing. For the bottle to fill properly, it needs to be colder than the bulk tank it's being filled from. Normally, the first fill will get almost zero liquid into the bottle; detach it from the rig and open the bottle's on/off, venting gas which will cool the bottle. WEAR GLOVES! When the bottle is chilled (doesn't need an inch-thick layer of ice on the outside - if the condensation on the outside is just starting to frost over then it's cold enough) then fill again, using scales to weigh how much CO2 is in the bottle. Never fill over the bottle's rated capacity, especially on a warm day.

 

[tompinckard]

wats everyone think about the above response? sounds right..ish

 

[balf]

there is no ish...its right..ive filled thousands...(no exageration) of co2 botle and thats how i do it...unless of course the bottle still has some co2 in, then i vent it off so its already chilled

 

[Dskize]

yeh he's right ,standard rec-site filling technique

 

[Blunda]

A friend of mine had the same problem and it turned out in his case he was using the wrong CO2,He was using the stuff you would find in a cellar not the liquid CO2.....

 

[SwissTony]

WEAR GLOVES! When the bottle is chilled (doesn't need an inch-thick layer of ice on the outside

One of the valves on a bottle at work decided to give up after I had filled it.
The bottle ended up sitting on a shelf, completely covered in ice, you couldn't see any part of the bottle.

One other thing is to make sure the o-ring isn't fubar or missing.
I learnt the hard way when I started filling a bottle with no o-ring when the contents of the bulk tank started emptying out of the vent hole on the fill rig.