You ever had this happen?

[scubajeeper]

I've been leaving my scuba tanks outside, it's 72 in the house and high 90's outside, more pressure, right! So I went out to shoot after work and I noticed when I was filling my gun that the click that you hear from the foster sounded different. I can fill my gun directly off the yoke and don't need a hose so when I bled the yoke to take the gun off something shot out of the bleed hole and splattered on the side of the tank, I looked in the foster on the gun and there appeared to be a bug or what was left after being under 3000 psi. I hope I don't have problems with my gun because of this.

 

[Swing360]

Bug guts in the air reservoir... That's probably not the BEST thing for it. I'd pull your reservoir and see if the cylinder is clean? 

What at kind of gun is it?

 

[billydjann]

Wow... what are the chances of that happening... hard to believe

 

[Dan25]

"billydjann"Wow... what are the chances of that happening... hard to believe

Not really. I think Scubajeeper lives in Louisiana as I do. We have wasp like insects we call dirt dobbers that will stuff any small hole with spiders and seal it off with mud. They are a pest. If you leave an air tool out they often will stop up the air fitting the same day. They plug up carb vent and overflow lines, anything with a small hole up to around a half inch. I use eraser caps like the ones used in grade school to cover my air fittings. The only thing you have to remember to do is stand them up when not on a tool or guess what will happen to the opening.

 

[linsfreak]

What kinda tank was it ? I would never leave tanks out. Especially carbon fiber! Maybe on a boat in the middle of the ocean.

 

[scubajeeper]

Standard 80 cu ft aluminum, they are on my deck under cover. There's no harm in leaving them outside, I just never thought about something crawling up inside the female foster.