Portable regulated CO2 system at Lowes

I've noticed it in passing, but not investigated very far. I did notice that they sold the tanks as well.

One other note: I'd be concerned about using CO2 in my air tools with the greater cooling effect than air, unknown effect on tool lubrication and potential for accidentally feeding liquid. The solution is easy however, just get air fills from a SCUBA shop instead of CO2. It's cheaper as well.

Make sure they don't give you 3000 psi though!

You can't get much compressed air in a paintball tank, compared to the expanded volume of CO2.

Depending on the delivery rate, the output CO2 gas should not be that cold. The tubing coil will warm it very effectively at low delivery rates. The tank is small enough that ambient heat will warm it directly.

There's actually a product made for beer that uses one of these from Williams brewing:

Might even be cheaper to get a bev regulator and DIY your own adapter (assuming you need one) for a paintball tank, but I don't know.

I think the only other problem is that iirc paintball fills tend to be expensive for the amount of gas you get.

I'd hope anyone at a SCUBA shop doing fills would understand tank ratings, particularly if they have purchased the adapters to do paintball tanks. Of course you could also get a SCUBA tank and regulator with the appropriate QC adapter and have a nice large regulated air source.

Put a high speed cutoff wheel saw on it (or similar high consumption tool) on it and watch it freeze the regulator.

But, it's next to useless. The amount of air you can store at CO2 pressures is very small. CO2 is stored as a liquid. The volume produced is way higher than air at the same pressure. Just like water produces way more volume in steam when you boil it.

Bob

Yeah, but it isn't really expected to handle that. More for nail guns that are just using an occasional puff.

A 12 gram C02 cartridge will inflate a 700c x 25mm bicycle tire to riding pressures. No way you could do that with air.

Wes

I'm just going to hire a SCUBA diver to through Pepsi at my paintball adversaries.

"Pete C." wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@snet.net:

you can get paintball tanks cheaper at WalMart.

Yeah I saw these yesterday at Lowes. The "Rhino Power" tanks(9oz or

Here is Blue Rhinos page

I was thinking about shooting an email to Blue Rhino and seeing if their CO2 is food grade or not.

I've seen plans arround the net for that very thing and also for a filling settup that uses a 20Lb CO2 tank mounted upside down to dispense liquid to fill the paintball cylinder. I'm not sure I have a pair big enough to do that myself but the plans are "out there".

"Bob F" wrote: (clip)Just like water produces way more volume in steam when you boil it. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Hey, why not just fill the tank with water and throw it in a bonfire? Watt do you say to that?

The water might be hard on the tools. And they might get really hot.

Have we just invented the steam engine?