got to agree with the budgie on this
recently at an event i needed new fittings and hose and as not knowing tom was sitting in his little caravanette i purchased two push fittings (one spare) and some hose.
back to the tent fitted the new fitting, a little ptfe and adequetly tightened. Went to the fill reg 3000psi foll begain filling
BANG 2500 psi the hose blew i filled my pants the bottle emptied its load i scurried of to the tent again. This time i get hose from the generous team next to us. cut it correctly making sure not to give it overly sharp bends made sure it was correclt fitted. Back to fill station. FIll fill fill BANG this time the fitting burst the collar comes away from the fitting and i nearly lose a finger thank god for those gloves.
So my point the reg a fairly old tsunami AA type was fine no problems in all the time i used it however fittings and hose id had for less then 20mins failed . Sometimes things get faulty, parts can be knackered before they even get used. A brand new reg coud go on the first try, most of us treat our kit with more love then our ladys occasinaly you get a dogey bit of kit but in the end its down to common sense.
If you buy a piece of s*** from some one let them know by all means but scrap the garbage and go from there.
The goverments all maintain that all equipment must meet saftey standard they are the peope that do the test on it. all the test, because if they didnt we could be walking about with all sort of crappy second rate kit thats come from all places.
i go with this rule if a bottle should only be used for 15 years then half it and dont use equipment older then that.
recently at an event i needed new fittings and hose and as not knowing tom was sitting in his little caravanette i purchased two push fittings (one spare) and some hose.
back to the tent fitted the new fitting, a little ptfe and adequetly tightened. Went to the fill reg 3000psi foll begain filling
BANG 2500 psi the hose blew i filled my pants the bottle emptied its load i scurried of to the tent again. This time i get hose from the generous team next to us. cut it correctly making sure not to give it overly sharp bends made sure it was correclt fitted. Back to fill station. FIll fill fill BANG this time the fitting burst the collar comes away from the fitting and i nearly lose a finger thank god for those gloves.
So my point the reg a fairly old tsunami AA type was fine no problems in all the time i used it however fittings and hose id had for less then 20mins failed . Sometimes things get faulty, parts can be knackered before they even get used. A brand new reg coud go on the first try, most of us treat our kit with more love then our ladys occasinaly you get a dogey bit of kit but in the end its down to common sense.
If you buy a piece of s*** from some one let them know by all means but scrap the garbage and go from there.
The goverments all maintain that all equipment must meet saftey standard they are the peope that do the test on it. all the test, because if they didnt we could be walking about with all sort of crappy second rate kit thats come from all places.
i go with this rule if a bottle should only be used for 15 years then half it and dont use equipment older then that.
