Wil6 Posted February 5, 2015 Posted February 5, 2015 Here's my home made CO2 Bomb. Cost R40 to refill and it one bottle should last me quite a while. I just bought a CO2 canister from a local paint ball shop and did a couple of conversions and here it is. Works like a bomb........
SwissVan Posted February 5, 2015 Posted February 5, 2015 Here's my home made CO2 Bomb. Cost R40 to refill and it one bottle should last me quite a while. I just bought a CO2 canister from a local paint ball shop and did a couple of conversions and here it is. Works like a bomb........ 20141215_162232.jpg Looks like red wine bottle... Can you provide some close up pics of the adaptors and fittings pse
Wil6 Posted February 5, 2015 Posted February 5, 2015 Looks like red wine bottle... Can you provide some close up pics of the adaptors and fittings pse Will do tonight
GoLefty!! Posted February 5, 2015 Posted February 5, 2015 what ever happened to the local service station? at least no animals were harmed to test their equipment
SwissVan Posted February 5, 2015 Posted February 5, 2015 what ever happened to the local service station? at least no animals were harmed to test their equipment I just go to my local train station (2 minutes walk), they have a compressor in the bicycle parking area that is available for anyone to use. These home made jobs are ideal for occasions when you not close to a compressor or don't feel like going outside in the snow / rain / hot sun / hijack alley / traffic
GoLefty!! Posted February 5, 2015 Posted February 5, 2015 I won't be pressurizing a wine bottle or PETcoke bottle ANYTIME. glass is not a good pressure vessel if you don't know how good the glass blowing is.As for PET, its pretty strong but the cap fitting is the weak point. Also these are not designed to a burst pressure rating so its really a "don't try this at home scenario"
Wil6 Posted February 5, 2015 Posted February 5, 2015 I won't be pressurizing a wine bottle or PETcoke bottle ANYTIME. glass is not a good pressure vessel if you don't know how good the glass blowing is.As for PET, its pretty strong but the cap fitting is the weak point. Also these are not designed to a burst pressure rating so its really a "don't try this at home scenario"Huh, who uses a wine bottle?
GoLefty!! Posted February 5, 2015 Posted February 5, 2015 oooops didnt read the text.looked at that pic and went EEEEEK
Wil6 Posted February 6, 2015 Posted February 6, 2015 Looks like red wine bottle... Can you provide some close up pics of the adaptors and fittings pse Here are some close up pics. The black thingy, don't know what you call it, enables you to open the valve on the C02 canister. Bought that also at the paintball shop. Then I just used a normal CO2 adapter that works with a 16g bomb and to get these two to fit onto each other, I used a adapter part I got from a local shop that sells compressors and all the equipment that goes with that. Hope this helps
Wil6 Posted February 6, 2015 Posted February 6, 2015 oooops didnt read the text.looked at that pic and went EEEEEK You must seriously hate the way you look to use a wine bottle for this.
SwissVan Posted February 6, 2015 Posted February 6, 2015 You must seriously hate the way you look to use a wine bottle for this. For sure, I was just joking when I said it looked like a wine bottle, hope no one is silly enough to try it.Funny enough I was looking at Gas Cartridges used in snow sport avalanche air bags and you can even get a carbon one which is really light compared to aluminum. Its a 350 gram size cartridge which would inflate quite a few tyres and is still small enough to carry in a backpack or in your car for those weekend trips. Big problem is cost, the alu ones are +/- 150 $ or Chf, the carbon one had no price on it.... How much does that cartridge you have cost?
Shebeen Posted February 6, 2015 Posted February 6, 2015 Here's my home made CO2 Bomb. Cost R40 to refill and it one bottle should last me quite a while. I just bought a CO2 canister from a local paint ball shop and did a couple of conversions and here it is. Works like a bomb........ 20141215_162232.jpgbrilliant - whats the max pressure on that cannister, probably something massive.
Wil6 Posted February 6, 2015 Posted February 6, 2015 brilliant - whats the max pressure on that cannister, probably something massive.Not sure. Think it's 20bar. It seats any wheel on any rim in split seconds. You must just carefully regulate the speed of the CO2 when you open the valve. And after the tire is inflated, I just deflate and inflate a couple of times with a normal pump just to let all the CO2 gas out
SwissVan Posted February 6, 2015 Posted February 6, 2015 brilliant - whats the max pressure on that cannister, probably something massive. The ones I mentioned (for avalanche airbags) which are the same size as Wil6 on are 200bar / 2900 psi Edit:Mammut non refillable alu and carbon = 300 BarMammut refillable alu = 209 bar
Wil6 Posted February 6, 2015 Posted February 6, 2015 For sure, I was just joking when I said it looked like a wine bottle, hope no one is silly enough to try it.Funny enough I was looking at Gas Cartridges used in snow sport avalanche air bags and you can even get a carbon one which is really light compared to aluminum. Its a 350 gram size cartridge which would inflate quite a few tyres and is still small enough to carry in a backpack or in your car for those weekend trips. Big problem is cost, the alu ones are +/- 150 $ or Chf, the carbon one had no price on it.... How much does that cartridge you have cost?About R300, adapter was R200
Wil6 Posted February 6, 2015 Posted February 6, 2015 Here's what I got from the interweb : The way nitrogen works is since N2 is a gas (not a liquid), its crammed into a tank at a high pressure (3,000 to 5,000psi depending on your tanks pressure rating). Each tank has a regulator (restrictor valve) which regulates the gas down to 800PSI output (what a paintball gun can use, the same pressure as CO2). So now paintball has a CO2 replacement with no extra parts needed to convert to N2.
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