For all you Tippmann C3 owners

[Muzikman]

I was looking for something totally unrelated, but ran across this. Thought maybe those people with the C3 could get use out of one of these.

http://www.truckspring.com/maccoupler/product/maccoupler.asp

[rkjunior303]

That's a great idea

[SlartyBartFast]

So, after pumping 50,000 shots, you can refill.

[Muzikman]

Slarty, you know it!

Hell, for $17 the money you would save having to buy the disposible tanks would pay for it's self pretty quick. Just fill it up from the gas grill before you leave for a day of play and you are golden.

[ThePixelGuru]

That'd last me a lifetime... It's what, a 40lb tank? 50,000 shots per lb? So like 2 million shots... from a pump. Cool, though. Talk about gas efficiency. Your fill will outlast your marker.

[Geoff Call]

I'm pretty sure it's illegal to fill those disposable tanks. Not to mention dangerous. Just my 2 cents...

We just got those C3 markers in at work and they scare the absolute heck out of me.

"What manner of man are you that can summon up fire without flint or tinder?"

[SlartyBartFast]

That adapter can't be all that good (besides possibly being illegal).

Propane is stored as a liquid, just like CO2. The adapter will only fill the attached tank with gas and not liguid. If you were to fill with liquid, you risk overfilling, which is dangerous and the reason the valves on 20ld propane tanks were changed.

[SuiciDal Sn Y p ER]

im guessing disposable propane tanks don't have burst disks?

[Skoad]

come on now, a standard coleman camp sized propane tank is like 3 bucks.....

I'm still waiting for the 12gram propane tanks, who here can math wizard up a shot count on something like that? Got to be decent

[SuiciDal Sn Y p ER]

50,000 shots per pound divided bt 2.2 = 22727.27kg divided by 1000 = 22.73 multiplied by 12 = 272.73

uhh i think i did that correctly.
12gram propane cartridge = 272-273 shots?

[KJHawley]

"What manner of man are you that can summon up fire without flint or tinder?"

There are some who call me... Tim?...

[OneEyedPimp]

50,000 shots per pound divided bt 2.2 = 22727.27kg divided by 1000 = 22.73 multiplied by 12 = 272.73

uhh i think i did that correctly.
12gram propane cartridge = 272-273 shots?

Somehow that does not sound right:

You get 50,000 shots for every 454.4 grams(roughly converted) that means that you would get approximately 38 twelve grams which means that you would get approximately 1316 shots off of one twelve gram.

I could be wrong.

[Vex]

That adapter can't be all that good (besides possibly being illegal).

Propane is stored as a liquid, just like CO2. The adapter will only fill the attached tank with gas and not liguid. If you were to fill with liquid, you risk overfilling, which is dangerous and the reason the valves on 20ld propane tanks were changed.

If getting any liquid into the tank is a bad and (possibly) a dangerous thing, then how is it exactly that this adapter is not "all that good" if it fills the tank with gas only?

[SuiciDal Sn Y p ER]

great here we go with the math

50,000/1000*12 = 600 shots per 12gram?

great... now im getting 1,322

convert pounds to kg, from kg to grams. get the shots per so many grams divide the grams by 12 to get some number and use that number to divide 50,000 and in the end i get 1,322...

i realized my mistake with my first and second calculations... and now i've come to my third which results in 1,322 shots =) lets hope im right with this one

[blamtro]

The adaptor is safe and legal. However, the only limitation is that disposable propane tanks used by the C3 and other camping equipment are not DOT compliant once refilled. Meaning, you can not transport them in your car once refilled.