Has any one managed to hook up an hpa tank to a gun?

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Thu Aug 30, 2007 4:38 pm

i have many tanks for Paintball, they all are have out put around 850 900psi , i want to see if anyone had sucsesfuly hooked up a tank to a regulator to make the gun automaticly fill up with air after teh chember had been cleard .




Also if some one has a way to hook up a paintball regulator to a tire valve ?
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Thu Aug 30, 2007 4:45 pm

This has been done many, many times. Just regulate it.

Get a regular tire chuck. It should have 1/8"npt threads, which is also common for regulators.
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Thu Aug 30, 2007 4:52 pm

i looked up tire chuck and its a gage ?? an i know how i would hook it up to the tank , i jus tdont know how to hook it up to the tire valve
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Thu Aug 30, 2007 5:00 pm

I've done it with unregulated Co2 but I manually fill the chamber with a ball valve for efficiancy.
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Thu Aug 30, 2007 5:02 pm

You can buy a Stabilizer reg for Palmers Pursuit. They are perfect for this application, but they are a little pricey.
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Thu Aug 30, 2007 5:05 pm

yo i paintball ( sweetname) well i was plaing on using my old ion reg its been sitting around for a year . how could i use tat , ps im uising a dye throttle :wink:
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Thu Aug 30, 2007 5:09 pm

I'm sorry. This link will give you more information on what an air chuck is.
http://toolprice.net/product/7976A?META=nextag-7976A

As far as hooking it up, simply press the end of the chuck to the tire valve. Other than that, the best way to hook it up would be to not use a schrader (hook directly).
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http://www.spudfiles.com/forums/co2-tan ... 10264.html


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Tippman has a cool little adjustable inline bottle reg that looks promising for spudgun applications.They seem reasonable enough.27 dollars on ebay and $10 shipping.I know I'm soon going to adapt my setup for an on board air system.
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goathunter wrote:Tippman has a cool little adjustable inline bottle reg that looks promising for spudgun applications.They seem reasonable enough.27 dollars on ebay and $10 shipping.I know I'm soon going to adapt my setup for an on board air system.
I have never found the air outlet piece for the regulated output on the regulator. In order to just use the regulated output on the regulator, you need to plug the unregulated output with a 1/8" galvanized pipe plug (male threads). The threads on the regulated output is 10-32. Drill a hole through a 10-32 3/4" screw and make an adaptor.
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Fri Aug 31, 2007 7:49 pm

dude I like the thought of using the CP reg off my EGO on the chamber of a pneuy :D might try
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