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Filling your bottles

Filling your bottle

  • fill the bottles yourself

    Votes: 133 67.2%
  • have a trained person from the site filling for you

    Votes: 65 32.8%

  • Total voters
    198

Bertz

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Nov 26, 2014
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Defiantly a thread everyone should read.
now time to read the links provided by tom on guidlines and watch a few youtube vids.

Just a thought, when people have stated using their own gear but what about when we buy 2nd hand bottles (still in test date) and we fill for the first time(s) we are un aware of how they have been previously treated, maybe wd40 in the nipple and so on.

should we remove fill nipples to clean out and then reassemble,when not knowing their previous history ?
 
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Bertz

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Nov 26, 2014
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A youtube vid on a guy filling up at a fill station. can anyone give any more tips on this guys example or does he cover all guide lines .
 

Tom

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Nov 27, 2006
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Pretty much covered it

However I wouldn't hold by the fill whip
It does seperate your hand from the cylinder if something went wrong, but it can put a strain on the fitting
I recommend cupping the regulator between two fingers and hanging the cylinder and gun
If anything blows then you are less attached and out of the way of whatever ends go up or down


When actually filling I also say not to do just one press to fill. Fine if just topping up
If you're filling from low or empty then press the lever for a short while, release, pause, press again and repeat
3 goes should be sufficient
Touch the cylinder and you will see how hot it gets and with experience you will begin to hear how fast it is filling
A fast fill will heat the cylinder which at least just means you get les of a fill (hot air expands so when it cools you find that you have less air - fill when you exit the game and check/top up before going in)
At worst a fast fill generates the heat to increase the chance of a flash fill

High speed fill stations stopped back in the day when there were the flash fill explosions in the UK, but they may creep back
Also there are now fast fill nipples so you can get a pretty fast fill from a standard station

Flash fill failures are a rare thing so not a major worry. Just be aware and we won't be having anymore
 
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Jamie.

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Feb 10, 2015
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as a newbie i would find this troubling to me as i dont know what to do and weather i would be doing it right i would find it better if there was someone trained to just fill it for me and i think this should be the chase for every ones safety.
 

BOD

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as a newbie i would find this troubling to me as i dont know what to do and weather i would be doing it right i would find it better if there was someone trained to just fill it for me and i think this should be the chase for every ones safety.
Except for the safety of the person filling who wont have a clue what has been done to the bottle and reg, for example if some one has decided to fix a sticky fill nipple with WD40 or any other kind of oil, the first the trained person will know about is when the bottle explodes. People should be responsible for their own gear and if you don't know what to do ask some one who does know to show you.
 

Jamie.

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Feb 10, 2015
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Except for the safety of the person filling who wont have a clue what has been done to the bottle and reg, for example if some one has decided to fix a sticky fill nipple with WD40 or any other kind of oil, the first the trained person will know about is when the bottle explodes. People should be responsible for their own gear and if you don't know what to do ask some one who does know to show you.
yes i see where you are coming from here you should be able to maintain and use your own gear in the safe and correct manor and i suppose there will be people about that will be willing to show the like of my self what to do