Stako help please

[Teddy picker99]

Right ive baught a stako off the for sale section, been doing some reaserch and am now biblicly paranoid about flash filling it... How long are you suposed to take filling them, do u slowly fill it for 1500, then come back to slowly fill the other half, or all in one slow go? Untill tonight i didnt realise how much of a polarva they caused.. X

 

[Talfryn]

Well i've always filled mine like any other bottle and I think I'm still alive

 

[Liam92]

when the stakos were first appearing there was quite a lot of rumours flying around about them just because they are described as a 'disposable' tank. there is no problem with filling a stako at the same speed as a normal bottle

 

[Sabot]

Hpac do the air for most of the recognised Tourneys and paintbal events and set the air up so people can't flash fill. You attach the bottle, pull down the lever and it fills at a consistent pace.

That's why we love Hpac.

If you are filling from your own dive tank then that is a different issue and may be prone to user error.

 

[Liam92]

Hpac do the air for most of the recognised Tourneys and paintbal events and set the air up so people can't flash fill. You attach the bottle, pull down the lever and it fills at a consistent pace.

That's why we love Hpac.

If you are filling from your own dive tank then that is a different issue and may be prone to user error.

well remembered mate, like Sabot said if you are filling it from an unregulated source (e.g. scuba tank) fill it nice and slow and keep your hand on the tank to feel the temperature and don't let it get hot (a sign it is being filled too fast). the tank will naturally heat up a little bit. this is okay but it shouldn't feel anything more thank lukewarm.

although would just like to add that this applies to any bottle and your stako shouldn't be treated any differently

 

[Teddy picker99]

Cool, thanks muchly all. X

 

[Lump]

And all that rubbish about Stakos exploding, was just that rubbish

 

[Bolter]

Yep all false. There have been zero stako explosions, or failures. Don't put oil in or near your air system and fill it at a tournament, you'll be fine.

 

[spangley_special]

Yep all false. There have been zero stako explosions, or failures. Don't put oil in or near your air system and fill it at a tournament, you'll be fine.

Nige might disagree surely?

Only issue that I think was confirmed was air escaping through the fibre, although that's air trapped between the "inner tube" and the solid cylinder not the fill it's self.

 

[Bolter]

Nige might disagree surely?

Only issue that I think was confirmed was air escaping through the fibre, although that's air trapped between the "inner tube" and the solid cylinder not the fill it's self.

Im not sure exactly what happened, but it was potentially oil in the system that caused his reg to explode. Dont think the tank was anything to do with it, not sure, but it wasn't a fault of the tank manufacturer anyway.