Thermal Sock over Co2 tank?

the socks suck they only heat around the toes i have them for hunting, but its a good idea if the socks work you might have a different kind of socks

Cryogenic Liquid Physics 101.

Heat = Pressure.  Too much pressure = Boom.

 

yeah it enough heat. It will mess with your gun and cause velocity spikes. If you want to keep the frost off your gun, throw a regular sock on it.

Invest in an anti-syphon tube.

Or...uh   Go with HPA :)

Stormcharger wrote: Just use a neoprene tank cover.  It will help insulate the tank.

But that's what he doesn't want.

When you insulate something that is cold... you keep it cold.

or instead of adding an anti-siphon tube, just put on a siphon tube and run liquid straight to the valve, and so once again i post this page http://www.docsmachine.com/tech/liquid.html

ShortyBP wrote: Stormcharger wrote: Just use a neoprene tank cover.  It will help insulate the tank. But that's what he doesn't want. When you insulate something that is cold... you keep it cold.

What the...  I see that basic physics are not being taught at school anymore.  While what you said is somewhat true, it's not the whole story.  As the CO2 bottle empties more volume is avalable for the liquid inside to evaporate into a gas.  As you shoot faster the thermal change of a liquid evaporating will reduce the temperature inside the bottle causing the humidity in the air to condense and then freeze onto the tank.  A neoprene cover will insulate against this temperature drop, increasing the efficiancy of CO2 during rapid fire.  The idea is to limit the change in temperature to increase consistancy from shot to shot. Increasing the temperature of the bottle by adding a heat source, not only will dramatically increase the pressure inside the bottle making it more likly to burst under stress, but will also make the range of temperature inside the bottle from rapid fire greater causing even less consistancy.

im not saying hey lets throw a Co2 tank into a fire, im saying these socks dont get very hot.  Its like as warm as a spring day hot.  Not enough to make your tank go boom boom.  So what im getting at, is if youve got like gore tex or an insulated sock (after your tank has reached thermal equilibrium) on the tank, will it improve the number of shots you get out of a tank in winter.

yeah but I thought he was talking about his tank freezing to his arm or something like that.

unless its a heated sock a thermal sock is not going to heat up anything it is just an insulator...out it on your foot and it gets warm because it is insulating the 98.6 degree foot inside of it so it feels warm, its just a protective barrier. Do you think the insulation in the walls of your house heat it up....no...it protects the temp. inside the house from the outside.

It would be perfectly safe to use a sock on your tank it will just help the tank maintain a constant temperature protecting it from the cold outside air.