Nano Co2 With ADA Style Regulator

[magicmagni]

Maybe out of stock. They did have a good deal on them over there. I remember I got mine for closer to $100 when they were running the sale. If you ever get them to carry the paintball fittings for this regulator be sure to post it. I would be interrested.

kzr750r1 thank for posting the link. It's good to have an alternative if austin homebrew doesn't restock it.

[kzr750r1]

Originally Posted by magicmagni

Maybe out of stock. They did have a good deal on them over there. I remember I got mine for closer to $100 when they were running the sale. If you ever get them to carry the paintball fittings for this regulator be sure to post it. I would be interrested.

kzr750r1 thank for posting the link. It's good to have an alternative if austin homebrew doesn't restock it.

NP I like your idea, even if I never build one myself. You are making me think of all grain brewing again. My old brewing partner wants to run a few batches but it's been five years since we did anything with the equipment. If we do there will be about two weekends of cleaning first.

[madman280]

CO2 tanks for paint ball markers DO NOT contain oil of any kind. The moving parts of the gun are oiled directly. And since the oil type varies from gun to gun, and some guns are destoyed if you use the wrong oil, it wouldn't make sence to have oil in the tank. In Canada all commercial sources of paintball, welding and fire extinguisher CO2 are food grade CO2. Its usually derived as a byproduct of corn based alcohol production here. Its the alcohol mixed with automotive gas...so loads of production. CO2 is a product of alcohol fermentation The paintball tank adapter is avalible here from Badlands Paintball (http://www.badlandspaintball.com/airsystems/hoses.html) for about $15 (or from a paintballers broken gun for less) A trip to an industrial plumbing or hydraulic supplier for a high pressure pipe nipple or adapters to fit any inert gas regulator. Be sure to use fittings rated to at least 1000 psi. The upside to paintball tanks is, we can get them filled at Canadian Tire or the paint ball places, 7 days a week till 9pm most days and its about $10 CDN. I was paying $15CDN to fill my 5 lb standard tank.

CJ

[magicmagni]

Good info madman. I've never had and issue with oil in the Co2. I don't know if I understand what you are posting about the adapters. Most adapters I've seen for paintball allow you to use a disposable 5/8" cartridge with a gun that uses the larger threads (like that of the 20oz bottles). The adapter I'm looking for is the opposite of this. Something with the larger female threads that goes onto the bottle and 5/8 male on the other side that goes into the reactor.

Do you think I could use that hose to bottle adapter. I wonder if those hoses are the same thread and size of the disposables? Then I could just use a short hose from the bottle to the regulator.

[madman280]

Originally Posted by magicmagni

Good info madman. I've never had and issue with oil in the Co2. I don't know if I understand what you are posting about the adapters. Most adapters I've seen for paintball allow you to use a disposable 5/8" cartridge with a gun that uses the larger threads (like that of the 20oz bottles). The adapter I'm looking for is the opposite of this. Something with the larger female threads that goes onto the bottle and 5/8 male on the other side that goes into the reactor.
Do you think I could use that hose to bottle adapter. I wonder if those hoses are the same thread and size of the disposables? Then I could just use a short hose from the bottle to the regulator.

The hose to bottle adapter I posted a link to, is not for disposable cylinders, its for refillable cylinders. It adapts the bottle to a high presure pipe fitting to fit any inert gas regulator. Please be sure to use a HIGH pressure nipple between the regulator and tank. Avalible from a industrial fitting or hydraulic supplier. Even small towns need hydraulics for tractors

[moazz]

sorry for my english i'm a french spoken person...

i find your projet very nice and i'm doing one. i start my projet 1 week ago.
but i find something that maybe great for you too. is the nano co2..

here the link: http://www.plantedtank.net/forums/diy/27883-nano-co2-ada-style-regulator.html?posted=1#post239680

it cost a bit but for the place and time is very great... no mix and take less thand 5 min. to change the co2 recipient whit a full one...

[vidiots]

I dunno about tanks of CO2, but I do know that when you order tanks of Air or Nitrogen, You have to choose between regular, oil-free, and high purity.

As for the oil and water vapor content of the gasses it is extremely small, it's not like it's spraying liquid oil or water all over the place like you would if it were spray paint.

[epicfish]

CO Advanced System

$205. Not to ruin the spirit of DIY, but the ADA system isn't too much more, compared to the $180-$200 DIY. I understand the first post was in March of 2006, so the ADA system might've been much more then.

[magicmagni]

That's a great price, at the time I built my own it was cheaper then to DIY as the ADA systems available locally were way more and they did not have solenoid vavle where the DIY version I could make for cheaper has one. This make a big difference in run times.

[actioncia]

Except with ADA, you can not control when to turn on/off.

[gotfrogs]

Now they have one http://www.adgshop.com/EL_Valve_p/101-411.htm

[tropicalfish]

Grave digger!

[volatile]

I'm interested in this setup. It looks like magicmagni hasn't posted since 2006? Does anyone have contact with him in real life?