6351 Aluminum Alloy Tanks

Moosepatrol · 01-03-2008, 02:45 PM

Hey guys just a heads up on Hydro tests for these tanks. A very good read. I actually have had a tank that is condemned up here in Canada. An old one I got with my original Black Widow.

Dive Source Fill Policy

Azzy · 01-04-2008, 02:40 AM

HTats more for dive tanks, but i guess lots of people fill their paintball tanks from larger dive tanks.

Aluminum vessel that large, with 4500psi+... nothing to screw around with. there were some stories around this article on the old MCB about some people that got fill operators killed by using these tanks... after they had them powdercoated

B · 01-05-2008, 11:04 PM

Most pre 1990 Al scuba tanks in the US are on their last hydro now, they will all be condemned as there hydro run out. Do not bother running out to get that old scuba tank hydroed it can not be done legally in 2008. (250,000 fine) The whole reg is just about one tank made with a bad run of 6k alloy tanks. DOT feels it better to get rid of all the old tanks than to risk one slipping through.

Railgun · 01-06-2008, 03:31 PM

Well that sucks. Both of mine are very much pre-'90.

01-04-2008, 02:40 AM	#2 (permalink)
Azzy Mod-O-Rator Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Finleyville, PA	HTats more for dive tanks, but i guess lots of people fill their paintball tanks from larger dive tanks. Aluminum vessel that large, with 4500psi+... nothing to screw around with. there were some stories around this article on the old MCB about some people that got fill operators killed by using these tanks... after they had them powdercoated __________________ Bryan "Azzy" Spiegel Riverside Renegade Paintball / C.C. S.V.S. Plankowner - LPPC#6 "It is my right to be uncommon—if I can. I seek opportunity—not security. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the state look after me. I want to take the calculated risk; to dream and to build, to fail and to succeed. I refuse to barter incentive for a dole. I prefer the challenges of life to the guaranteed existence; the thrill of fulfillment to the stale calm of utopia. I will not trade freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout. I will never cower before any master nor bend to any threat. It is my heritage to stand erect, proud and unafraid; to think and act for myself, enjoy the benefit of my creations and to face the world boldly and say, “This I have done.” - Dean Alfange

01-06-2008, 03:31 PM	#4 (permalink)
Railgun Post Whore Join Date: Oct 2006	Well that sucks. Both of mine are very much pre-'90. __________________ Model airplanes are cool too!