archaea c02 regulator with paintball adaptor

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Johny_Dough

Discussion Starter · Dec 7, 2010

Please help before I freeze my hand off...

I have a archaea c02 regulator with the recommended paintball adaptor and when I try to screw the adaptor onto the tank CO2 shoots out the little hole on the bottom...

Any ideas what the heck I'm doing wrong here?

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Johny_Dough

Discussion Starter · #2 · Dec 7, 2010

the hole I'm talking about is in the adaptor picture on the bottom side of the adaptor.

Green Leaf Aquariums

· #3 · Dec 7, 2010

Can we see a photo of your cylinder valve? makes sure the oring is intact.

Johny_Dough

Discussion Starter · #4 · Dec 7, 2010

this is what I have. Only o ring i see is on the bottom of the regulator.

This is the regulator.

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Green Leaf Aquariums

· #5 · Dec 7, 2010

The cylinder, can we see that? Not the regulator fittings, your paintball cylinder

Johny_Dough

Discussion Starter · #6 · Dec 7, 2010

this is adaptor and tank

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Johny_Dough

Discussion Starter · #7 · Dec 7, 2010

don't see any O Rings on the cylinder

Chafire

· #8 · Dec 7, 2010

He means the cylinder valve on the Co2 tank: The white ring at the top above the threads, in the below photo is the O-ring

Is the O-ring on that still good?

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Green Leaf Aquariums

· #9 · Dec 7, 2010

Hmm, the cylinder looks good, all the pieces look to be in order. Have you tried threading the adapter as tight as you can to the regulator first, then thread the entire system to the cylinder as one?

Johny_Dough

Discussion Starter · #10 · Dec 7, 2010

actually there is an O Ring on the bottom lip of the tank there

Chafire

· #11 · Dec 7, 2010

Sneaky, adding new photos, ahaha. Looks like you have an O-ring on it.

Johny_Dough

Discussion Starter · #12 · Dec 7, 2010

no matter what I do c02 comes out the hole in the adaptor

Chafire

· #13 · Dec 7, 2010

hmmm.... have you tried googling the problem? maybe others have experienced this as well.

Johny_Dough

Discussion Starter · #14 · Dec 7, 2010

yeah... that was my first step before looking like a moron on the forum I just joined

Johny_Dough

Discussion Starter · #15 · Dec 7, 2010

Chafire said:
He means the cylinder valve on the Co2 tank: The white ring at the top above the threads, in the below photo is the O-ring

Is the O-ring on that still good?

my o ring doesn't look like that one though...it looks creased like a thread.

Oh well back to the store tomorrow...

Chafire

· #16 · Dec 7, 2010

Yeah just try replacing the O-ring, should be cheap & see if the problem persists.

Johny_Dough

Discussion Starter · #17 · Dec 8, 2010

New O ring and all is good.

Thanks all for your help

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