Check your tanks! Global Composits International decertified!!!

[Mister Sinister]

Hmmm, I wonder if this guy who had a problem with his tank had a GCI or if it is even related. I was at PEVS yesterday and this father is unscrewing the tank from his kid's timmy. He keeps unscrewing and then we hear this gush of air and we all look over. I notice that the tank is unscrewing from the reg so I yell for him to stop. Luckily all the air vented slowly and it didn't turn into a bottle rocket. I told him to ge that looked at by the proshop before even thinking of filling it.

All my tanks are at home, so I'll check. Hopefully my crossfire tank is ok.

The statement from the government specified the tanks werent wrapped sufficently. I highly doubt that had anything to do with a problem of the tank unscrewing from the reg. Though i have never figured out why for as much as we screw tanks on and off no one has taken to left hand threading bottles onto regs so this doesnt happen.

[Rick-USA]

The key in the whole statement isn't just the maker of the tanks. It's the exemption number that is decertified. Only those tanks are the problem it seems. Every tank out there be it an HPA or a CO2 tank has a DOT exemption number somewhere on the bottle.

As far as the reg unscrewing from the tank. This notice has nothing to do with that. It's more than likely due to improper assembly of the tank/reg somewhere along the way. I see a fair number of these type situations monthly at the field I frequent. Usually they are CO2 tanks but I've seen an HPA or two do it also. It usually happens after they've been recertified by someplace other than a Paintball proshop.

[rkjunior303]

so, now the question that needs to be answered..

if one of our tanks falls under this, is it under the companies responsibility for replacing the bottle since it was sold as a 'defect' (or a recall).

[68magOwner]

I'm 99% positive that crossfire uses SCI. I have no idea where my tank is right now to check, but I'm sure it is.

yeah, when i saw that crossifre remark, went to go check my tank, shure enough, its SCI

[FallNAngel]

Though i have never figured out why for as much as we screw tanks on and off no one has taken to left hand threading bottles onto regs so this doesnt happen.

Well, then you'd just have the problem when people go to screw in their tanks... I think it'd be less *likely* to happen, but it could still happen.