Free Air?
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Topic: Free Air?
Posted By: t_hop
Subject: Free Air?
Date Posted: 06 May 2008 at 10:27pm
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So, this might be an impossibility but as I was driving today i saw a car pull into the free air station at a gas station and i thought, hey what if i could fill up my tank like that?... well the problem could be that the pressure wouldn't match or wouldn't be safe to do. I have no idea because I know nothing about either the pressure output of those tanks or of how much a certain psi tank can withstand. The final and last part of the equation would be creating a fitting to go on the nozzle for tires, that would fit a tank. I would assume that you could probably just modify something or just build it. what do yall think? is it do-able? if not.. why and how could you make it work. |
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Posted By: Mack
Date Posted: 06 May 2008 at 11:46pm
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It's not doable because the standard pressure delivery at service stations is significantly below the minimum required to operate most paintball markers.
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Posted By: t_hop
Date Posted: 07 May 2008 at 12:29am
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does it have to do with cars only having like 36 psi (is it measured in psi?)
and the tanks having pressures in the thousands? |
Posted By: paintballa43708
Date Posted: 07 May 2008 at 6:13am
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ya pretty much ------------- Pain Is Weakness Leaving The Body 
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Posted By: ThatGuitarGuy
Date Posted: 07 May 2008 at 10:17am
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Most small compressors I've seen in automotive shops, like the kind that power impact wrenches and air fill stations are only good to somewhere about 150-300 psi, as not that much is needed to power an impact wrench, and much less than that is needed to properly inflate a tire. Paintball tanks are rated for anywhere between 3000 and 5000 psi from what I have seen, and guns need at least 850 to operate correctly, if I understand some of the other posts. THAT is why a air fill station won't work. Now, a dive shop, or a welding shop, they tend to have high pressure compressors, and Co2 supplies. ------------- Skillet: I've never been terribly fond of the look of a vagina |
Posted By: StormyKnight
Date Posted: 07 May 2008 at 11:05pm
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Yeah, if this was the case, eveyone playing with HPA would just get a cheap $99 compressor to fill their tanks. You need something along the lines of a $2500+ compressor to fill HPA. ------------- 
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Posted By: t_hop
Date Posted: 08 May 2008 at 7:17am
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oh... well i'm still glad i asked |
Posted By: The Guy
Date Posted: 08 May 2008 at 4:46pm
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you could have searched
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Posted By: kurieitaa
Date Posted: 08 May 2008 at 4:51pm
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just the other day i seen some dude with his hpa tank go to the gas station and asked the gas bar guy if he can fill it up there lol ------------- 
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StormyKnight wrote:Posted By: T RAV29
Date Posted: 08 May 2008 at 5:20pm
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Posted By: t_hop
Date Posted: 08 May 2008 at 9:22pm
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but i had all these cool guys to fill me in ;) |
Posted By: The Guy
Date Posted: 09 May 2008 at 12:03am
its what keeps this forum moving. ------------- http://www.anomationanodizing.com - My Site
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Posted By: kurieitaa
Date Posted: 10 May 2008 at 1:30am
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lol no pun intended. -------------
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Posted By: StormyKnight
Date Posted: 11 May 2008 at 10:13am
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Yeah, like a laxative. -------------
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