firebrand18rjr
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I got a few of these tanks. How and what do i buy to hook them up so i can start spraying onto my plants? links are helpful
is it the pointy thing in the middle? shoudl i remove it somehow?
the lowest pressure regulators you'll find in a paintball gun only (reliably) go down to about 40 psi. That's waaay too much flow.A tank with a drip tube is also called a siphon tank. Unless your tanks are very old it wont have a siphon tube. You might be able to use a paintball gun regulator as well if it will go to low enough pressures and just get a valve or solenoid with a timer.
the lowest pressure regulators you'll find in a paintball gun only (reliably) go down to about 40 psi. That's waaay too much flow.
honestly, price-wise, you'd be better getting a real CO2 tank... 20 oz of CO2 isn't going to last very long... Not to mention that paintball stores charge you a ridiculous amount to fill CO2 compared to welding shops...
to the OP: you'll need to make sure that your tank is 100% depressurized before you take off the valve. Once you've unscrewed the valve, remove it from the tank. If there's a metal tube attached to it, remove it and reassemble. Otherwise, just reassemble.
tell them you're welding... or supplementing natural CO2 to get larger tomatoes? or you could tell them you want to use it for scuba divingok ill hit up the local oxarc and paintball shop and see what they got. any good excuses for why im needing a co2 tank? or if they ask im usin it for so they could point me in the right direction. thx
Yeah, but you're gonna have a hard time keeping the flow consistent as the pressure starts to drop, especially as it gets close to empty....which it will do often using a 20 oz tank...The regulator I am thinking of would be a lpr from an autococker. You would plumb a regular autococker vert regulator to the autococker lpr and you should be able to go down as low as you want.
Don't need to remove dip tube. Turn bottle upside down. The bottle will produce 'head' rather quickly.ok a dip tube is a tube placed in the tank below the valve to extract the liquid co2 rather than the gas form. this is used to fill your 12-20 oz tank for your gun.
for plant enviroment you want the gas form.
having a tank without a dip tube is important.
after you have a tank you need a regualtor