What is the trick to removing the tank valve on a spinloc tank? I got a Huben regulator I want to install, and darned if I can get the tank valve to budge.
Thanks, JD
Thanks, JD
Airforce Condor Tank Valve
- Thread starter JayDee24ca
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On my Talon P, I bled off all the pressur, put the plastic jaws in my vice. Removed the gauge but left the Foster. Clamped it and used a strap wrench. It came right loose.
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Stock valve/tank are threaded locked as far as I have been able to tell. I just replace them with my carbon fiber bottles.
Top: Huben Dream Universal with 25cc plenum
Bottom: Huben Cricket Max-ATH with 50cc plenum
Both have 1.1L Acecare bottles.
MAX-ATH has a trajectron angle adapter
Top: Huben Dream Universal with 25cc plenum
Bottom: Huben Cricket Max-ATH with 50cc plenum
Both have 1.1L Acecare bottles.
MAX-ATH has a trajectron angle adapter
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You may be right about the OEM tank and valve being locked; I just can't get them separated. I will have a look and see if I can find a CF tank of similar size that I can use. What a pain. I have a few pressure vessels, like paint ball tanks, but they are all too short. The original tank is 12 inches, and the paint ball tanks are like 8 inches.
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Maybe put a little heat on the tank neck to soften the lock compound and expand the threads? Say, a heat gun or a soft flame, past the end of the blue flame of a atandard home blowtorch, mabe 20 seconds.
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If it is red loctite you need 500f.
I don't know which type they use.
I switched to high flow tophats and carbon fiber bottle. The OEM bottles are in a plastic container.
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