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Topic: noob questions - please help

Posted By: A-5 no upgrades
Subject: noob questions - please help
Date Posted: 15 May 2005 at 8:33am

hey

how do you properly remove a full co2 tank? and do you have to cock youre marker before you load in a new co2 tank?

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"The burnt hands teach best about fire"

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Posted By: S\/\/4T-L()G4N
Date Posted: 15 May 2005 at 8:44am

Turn the tank 3/4's of a turn counter clockwise, and shoot your gun until it stops shooting. It should stop after 10 shots or less. If it doesn't, turn it another quarter of a turn, and repeat the process.

It is a good idea to cock your marker before you put a tank on your gun. The reason being is that sometimes the drive spring is just strong enough to depress the valve slightly, which could cause a slow leak of air through your gun.

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Posted By: DrunkDriver
Date Posted: 15 May 2005 at 11:52am

Hey swat, you're back. Good answer by the way.
You can also find what he said in the manual that came with your gun.

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Posted By: A-5 no upgrades
Date Posted: 15 May 2005 at 12:15pm

thanks

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"The burnt hands teach best about fire"

Posted By: Smitty
Date Posted: 15 May 2005 at 12:30pm

$Originally posted by S\/\/4T-L()G4N$ S\/\/4T-L()G4N wrote:

Turn the tank 3/4's of a turn counter clockwise, and shoot your gun until it stops shooting. It should stop after 10 shots or less. If it doesn't, turn it another quarter of a turn, and repeat the process.

It is a good idea to cock your marker before you put a tank on your gun. The reason being is that sometimes the drive spring is just strong enough to depress the valve slightly, which could cause a slow leak of air through your gun.

Make sure that you don't just take the tank off either, because it will just blow o-rings. It also wastes CO2 and is fairly hard on the valve of the tank.

Posted By: depackers91
Date Posted: 15 May 2005 at 2:16pm

twist the tank off until u hear it hiss and then fire your gun to get the co2 out of the power tube

Posted By: Trogdor2
Date Posted: 15 May 2005 at 4:46pm

Turn the tank a bit until you hear a little bit of hissing and then just shoot a couple of times. To put it on, make sure to cock the gun first.

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Posted By: You Wont See Me
Date Posted: 15 May 2005 at 4:50pm

Smitty wrote:

$Originally posted by S\/\/4T-L()G4N$ S\/\/4T-L()G4N wrote:

Turn the tank 3/4's of a turn counter clockwise, and shoot your gun until it stops shooting. It should stop after 10 shots or less. If it doesn't, turn it another quarter of a turn, and repeat the process. It is a good idea to cock your marker before you put a tank on your gun. The reason being is that sometimes the drive spring is just strong enough to depress the valve slightly, which could cause a slow leak of air through your gun.

Make sure that you don't just take the tank off either, because it will just blow o-rings. It also wastes CO2 and is fairly hard on the valve of the tank.

It doesnt waste c02, the c02 that you see shootin from the tank area is just the stuff already in the hose.

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A-5
E-Grip
JCS Dual Trigger
DOP X-CORE 8 stage x-chamber
Lapco Bigshot 14" Beadblasted

Optional setup:
R/T
Dead on Blade trigger

Posted By: Smitty
Date Posted: 15 May 2005 at 5:09pm

You Wont See Me wrote:

Smitty wrote:

$Originally posted by S\/\/4T-L()G4N$ S\/\/4T-L()G4N wrote:

Turn the tank 3/4's of a turn counter clockwise, and shoot your gun until it stops shooting. It should stop after 10 shots or less. If it doesn't, turn it another quarter of a turn, and repeat the process. It is a good idea to cock your marker before you put a tank on your gun. The reason being is that sometimes the drive spring is just strong enough to depress the valve slightly, which could cause a slow leak of air through your gun.

Make sure that you don't just take the tank off either, because it will just blow o-rings. It also wastes CO2 and is fairly hard on the valve of the tank.

It doesnt waste c02, the c02 that you see shootin from the tank area is just the stuff already in the hose.

Wouldn't it waste a little more, because some of the air is coming out of the tank when you unscrew it and the pin valve gets pushed half way open?

Posted By: You Wont See Me
Date Posted: 15 May 2005 at 5:11pm

It might be a little more, but not more than a shot or so. Most of it is just from the air in the gasline.

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A-5
E-Grip
JCS Dual Trigger
DOP X-CORE 8 stage x-chamber
Lapco Bigshot 14" Beadblasted

Optional setup:
R/T
Dead on Blade trigger