Who actually uses nitrogen?

[Thordic]

Nitrogen is better than compressed air for electronic guns. When air is compressed, so are the water molecules. This can lead to long term solenoid damage. You can tell you are using compressed air when you see water vapor coming out of your barrel after each shot. That's the water molecules expanding in the warm air.

Compressors come with water traps. If your field is running a compressor without running a water trap, find another field. The compressed air that goes into your gun is dry.

[RogueFactoryKid]

You have been to every field in Maine to check?

Yes.

[Will Wood]

Yes.

What he said

[Muzikman]

Must not be many fields in Maine. It would take me quite a long time to try and hit every field in PA. Hell, I have not been to every field in South West PA

[Will Wood]

Not too many..Nope heh. And there's like 5 all within an hour of each other. Gotta be reminded, this is Maine we're talking about. More than half the state is like... woods and rednecks.

[Codekevin0403]

Are they different? I always thought nitrogen was just a different name for compressed air

[Lohman446]

Compressors come with water traps. If your field is running a compressor without running a water trap, find another field. The compressed air that goes into your gun is reasonable/mostly/for the most part/for all useful purposes except people who are jerks on technicalities dry.

Added one word - actually a few, take your pick which one to insert.. because I'm being a technicality jerk today

[Muzikman]

Are they different? I always thought nitrogen was just a different name for compressed air

Compressed Air is exacly that, they take the air that is all around you and compress it to 3000-5000psi.

Nitogen is pulled from the air and contained in tanks at 3000psi.

The air that is all around you is ~70% Nitrogen, so for paintball they are equal.

[steimway]

Gotta be reminded, this is Maine we're talking about. More than half the state is like... woods and rednecks.

I used to think that Maine was bad... and then I moved to vermont.

[ScatterPlot]

Pretty sure that most of the time,
bulk tanks=nitro
compressor=CA (well compressors are always CA)

[Commissar_Loki]

Well, the shop I work for uses 6,ooo PSI 99.9999% Nitrogen bulk tanks.


-Butch

[maglover728]

My friends and I turned the high-pressure system on the USS Florida into the largest floating PB fill station in the world. We had a bunch of guys on the boat that loved to play and so we just hooked a line into the system right before a low-pressure reducer in engine room forward, near instrumentation. We were good up to 45k. I miss the boat. Shore duty sucks!

[Nottma]

I have had people try to tell me that nitrogen expands more fluently and causes you to fire straighter.. bs probably.
but in all reality the only difference that could matter is the dryness difference between the gas mixes.

[SSMercury]

I have had people try to tell me that nitrogen expands more fluently and causes you to fire straighter.. bs probably.
but in all reality the only difference that could matter is the dryness difference between the gas mixes.

I'm calling BS.

1. Air as a mixture is mixed VERY, VERY thoroughly, being, well, gas state chemicals.
2. The flow difference between air, 91% N2 and O2 (essentially the same flow characteristics, they differ less than 7%), and 99.9%+ N2 would be pretty hard to detect.

Sure, you could tell if it was, say, Helium gas versus, say, CO2. But I don't see how anyone is going to tell what it'd take instrumentation to tell. The usual things like paint/barrel match, accuracy of shooter, and consistency of air pressure play SO much more of a significant role.

Either Nitrogen or compressed air is cheap as these things go. Nitrogen is a common welding gas, and commonly used in chemical labs for inert atmosphere purposes. Few things burn or oxidize in pure N2 environments, though I can think of a couple things.