How much $$$ for own nitro fill station

[ciaran.mooney]

Out of intrest could you fill a tank to 4500psi, but regulate it down to 3000psi? Therefore having the small size of a 4500psi system with more fills?

[cphilip]

Uhhhhh....well... most "regulators" on the other end of the tank won't go above 1000 psi or so anyway. Wide open they are limited to that. A 45K tank is practically the same size as a 3K. Its just a bit thicker walled and rated to withstand it as well as the regulator able to handle it and bring it down to mamangable level below 1000 psi. I may not be following what you are asking here. A lot of folks opt for a 45K and never use it above 3000 psi for lack of fill capabilities. But they got it if they ever get a chance to use it is why.

Now maybe you are talking about the supply tank? Well the one we are discussing is a 6K tank that we regulate down to 3K with the fill station. Every once is awhile we turn it up to 4.5K on the output side for those with 4.5K tanks. But yes you regulate that at will with the right station. Msut handle the 6K on the other side though.

[soilent green]

to masterblaster to anwser your quetion of the benefits of scuba here they are relativly cheap, safer, and easy and cheap to get filled biggest draw back is fill capacity

[JEDI]

6000 psi tank huh?

So the bigger 6000 psi tanks give you more fills and you can rent them? Now I'm getting somewhere. Do you just bring the tank back to fill it each time? OK, now, where do I rent one from? How much can you rent them for.

[mrhooie]

check with a welding supply store..
I bought my HPA reg at Nitro Duck - but you should be able to find it a little cheaper

[virus]

heh.. i just re read my post... i wrote that after gettin ot of bed maybe 15 min before that... and around noon i remember that i left a wordy post dealin with ballons and numbers...

and now seein someone say my numbers were about right... man i gotta try to repeat that and just be in that half awake daze at work now *8P

like they said you can rent them from a welding/metal fabrication shop or from a welding supply company.... as for prices i'm clueless... i just know i dont want to be moving one of them around myself... my scuba tank after a day of play is heavy enough as it is....

[Warmonger]

uhhh ok where can I get scuba tank rated at 4500psi online, or even a 3500psi tank. I live in the middle of nowhere and I dont want to have to travel several hundred miles just to look for a scuba tank.

Any rough estimates of how much a new 4500psi or 3500psi scuba tank would run me?

[mrhooie]

do a search on google for scuba tanks

places in Florida should sell lots. I've found you will have to email the stores directly as they don't seem to post prices. It took me about an hour of reading, searching and emailing here in Canada, and then about 4 days to finalize a deal for two used 80cf 3000psi aluminum scuba tanks (they were rental stock - up for hydro next year)

my cost was 150cdn each +shipping


hope that helps

[RTProUser]

where did you get a 4500psi flatline!!?? I want one but I thought they were not comming out until march! Please let me know JIm

[cphilip]

Diversdirect.com will sell you a 3300 psi Neutral Boyancy 80 Cubic Foot SCUBA tank delivered to your door for about $160 total cost. Good service. Good place to do business if you have to go internet.

National...now Paintball Inc has the big cylinder type tank fill stations but I do not recall the manufacturerer of them. I think they were $200 last I saw a price on them. Rental of the big tanks? Don't know...we own ours...call your local Welding supply about that. But I can tell you it cost us $60 to refill the thing last time. They are not portable unless you like lugging about 300 pounds around!

[Warmonger]

I went and looked at paintballinc.com and they sell a 4500 psi fill station but it is $400.

I need to know what type of fittings and regulators and such I would need for a 6000psi tank and where I can get them

Also I heard something about and adapter that hooks directly onto your scuba tank and fills it completely from a regular air compressor, it just takes a while. I haven't been able to find anything about them online, so I was wondering if there really was usch a thing and if it really works

[cphilip]

Well I didn't think they were that much. Call em about it.

The fill station is the proper way to go. YOuc an use a regualr two stage regualtor but they are also like $180 and hen you have to get the fill nipple and make up your connections on the fill side.

Regular air compressors rarely go over 140 psi. So you just cannot get a fill with these and the air is dirty and has moisture in it which is bad for the inside of the tanks. You can find three stage compressors (like the ones SCUBA Shops and Fire Departments use) for about $3000 and they have water separtators and filtration and will get up to 3500 (or some even more) psi.