How can you fill a Nitro tank?
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Topic: How can you fill a Nitro tank?
Posted By: The Ho
Subject: How can you fill a Nitro tank?
Date Posted: 29 July 2004 at 12:33am
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what are all the ways to fill a nitro tank? can you fill it witha air compressor? in the long run will it be cheaper than co2? can i run a hpa tank on my 98 with a x-core? what is the smallest or cheapest hpa tank? ------------- I LIKE BIKES! |
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Posted By: Mike Barch
Date Posted: 29 July 2004 at 1:13am
Hey, yes you can fill it with a air compresser, yes cheaper then c02 in long run (not very long run either), yes you can run hpa on ur x-core but it wont help it or affect it at all, and the cheapest and smallest is pry a 68/3000 steel tank by 3a paintball (look on ebay). ------------- 
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Posted By: NMLvaio
Date Posted: 29 July 2004 at 2:27am
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a local pro shop can fill a Nitro tank also for a price -------------  
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Posted By: One Eye Dead
Date Posted: 29 July 2004 at 2:31am
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3A all the way! ------------- <Death to overlarge sig, read the rules.> |
Posted By: Slothbutt
Date Posted: 29 July 2004 at 2:56am
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Yes you can fill them with a compressor..if you have one that goes to 3000psi.
It's not cheaper then Co2 any where around here. X-core won't effect it. You can get small and cheap tanks but you'd be much better off saving and getting a fiber wraped 68ci tank. ------------- http://img483.imageshack.us/img483/2688/3guns27ef.jpg - My Paintball Guns http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/2711/arand9mmak9.jpg - New "Toys" |
Posted By: S\/\/4T-L()G4N
Date Posted: 29 July 2004 at 7:19am
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I don't know dude. It would take a lot of $3 CO2 fills to pay for a $20000 compressor. Yes, you did count those 0 right. ------------- 
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Posted By: Smitty
Date Posted: 29 July 2004 at 9:28am
| if you want a really cheap but small tank look at the tanks at http://www.countypaintball.com - www.countypaintball.com . they had one for like 75$ but that would be waaay too small. |
Posted By: Mike Barch
Date Posted: 29 July 2004 at 9:37am
lol, buy a 250 psi tank, fill it like 12 times to get 3000 psi lol. smitty i can see you doing that. -------------
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Posted By: The Ho
Date Posted: 29 July 2004 at 11:39am
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I have a compressor but i dont know if it had enough pressure. all i can remember is 30 gallon or 30 horespower.would i need a special fitting to fill a nitro tank? ------------- I LIKE BIKES! |
Posted By: Slothbutt
Date Posted: 29 July 2004 at 1:44pm
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The ho.. look at the gauge..does the thing even go to 300psi?
The compressers used to fill HPA tanks are like $4,000-$10,000 bucks. ------------- http://img483.imageshack.us/img483/2688/3guns27ef.jpg - My Paintball Guns http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/2711/arand9mmak9.jpg - New "Toys" |
Posted By: The Ho
Date Posted: 30 July 2004 at 2:43pm
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oh yeah well mines a craftsman! will it work? ------------- I LIKE BIKES! |
Posted By: whiteknight457
Date Posted: 30 July 2004 at 2:47pm
thats got nuthin to do with the psi u
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Posted By: Ultraraptor
Date Posted: 30 July 2004 at 2:52pm
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Craftsman doesn't make compressers that push 3000 psi of air. Atleast not ones that are easily obtained by the public. On ebay they have compressers for paintball all the time. They just cost like $5,000. And yes you would have to get a special fitting and no I don't think that your compresser can fill a nitro tank. You can get a nitro tank filled at a paintball field and/or local shop.
Mike ------------- "Pain heals, chicks dig scars, but glory..lasts forever" Shane Falco, The Replacments |
Posted By: The Ho
Date Posted: 31 July 2004 at 12:59am
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i was just joking about the craftsman thing, jeez! how much does it cost to fill a 68 ci tank? ------------- I LIKE BIKES! |
Posted By: Ultraraptor
Date Posted: 31 July 2004 at 10:32pm
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It depends on where you live. Around me it's a dollar for every thousand psi. So if you get a 3000 psi tank, it's $3, if it's a 4500 psi tank, it'll be $4.50
Mike ------------- "Pain heals, chicks dig scars, but glory..lasts forever" Shane Falco, The Replacments |
Posted By: Shadowminion
Date Posted: 31 July 2004 at 11:21pm
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The Pro shop where I play , sells all day air passes for 10 Bucks , and they charge $2.00 to fill (up to 15 Oz.) CO2 tanks , and $5.00 for the ones at 16 Oz capacity and above ------------- SL68-II , micro honed and polished .688" bore . Tuff Enuf . Widowmaker , under construction |
Posted By: suntannedmonk
Date Posted: 31 July 2004 at 11:30pm
| get SCUBA certified and you can use a SCUBA tank to refill HPA tanks with an adapter that'll run you about 50$, You can uasualy get about 10 good fills off a tank before you'd have to take it to a dive shop to be refilled. and as a twice certified dvier i highly recamend it, it's a lifelong certification and truely an adventure. |
Posted By: tyranny
Date Posted: 01 August 2004 at 9:10am
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Ultraraptor wrote:Posted By: Mike Barch
Date Posted: 01 August 2004 at 9:52am
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tats cheap -------------
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Posted By: Justice
Date Posted: 01 August 2004 at 9:54am
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Get a couple of scooba tanks and fill stations. ------------- 
-JUSTICE http://www.myspace.com/outkastpaintball - Outkast Myspace |
Posted By: ip8ball
Date Posted: 01 August 2004 at 8:18pm
| Get a scuba tank!!!!!!! In my area you need no scuba certification to buy a tank. You can buy them from between 75 and $175. The scuba place near me fills them for as cheap as $3.00 for a large scuba tank if you buy 10 fills. If they fill it slowly I can get 10 good fills and 10 half fills. Thats about 20 cents a fill on my 68ci tank. |