| Hot fills seem to be the norm everywhere.
The local field switched to "all day air" SPECIFICALLY because HPA users kept complaining about tanks being hot-filled... and thus underfilled. So, with "all day air", he could tell them to shutup, since refills were free
I told him he could fill them "scuba-style", and fill them fast WHILE SUBMERGED in cold water. The water aborbs the heat, so the tank gets a full fill fast, but HPA owners balked about messing up there stickers. So the idea was dropped.
I've never heard about damaged regs though. Not sure why it would matter, unless they were OVERFILLING. Sadly, thats also a common practice that goes with hot-fills. The idea is it prevents HPA users from complaining by filling the 4500 tank to 5000psi, so it will drop to 4500psi when it cools.
Scary.
Nick |