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
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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 standard 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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OK
I'm thoroughly confused.
Why would you Loctite a bottle?
When pressurized it will not move.
Correct?
just my 2 dumb
Edward
I'm thoroughly confused.
Why would you Loctite a bottle?
When pressurized it will not move.
Correct?
just my 2 dumb
Edward
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I'm sure it has something to do with protecting a revenue stream. Probably want you to buy a tophat and bottle if you wanted to put a CF bottle on the gun.
Niksan has the rear bottle and adapter on the Escalade rifle thread locked.
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AF might counter that since the CF bottle is at a higher pressure, it needs a valve tuned for that, and so they only provide the correct valve-tank combinations. One downside to something that is idiot-easy to work on is that idiots will work on them. They could still have revenue if they sold bottles and valves separately, but then might be responsible for the mis-use of those items. The 3000 psi valve on a carbon bottle is one thing, but a 4500 psi valve on an aluminum bottle... somebody, somewhere will fill that to 4500 psi.
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