thetmaxx
Well-Known Member
5 lb bottle would fit better on its side, is this ok?
Ok guess I was wrong I stored mine in my keggerator door on its side for like a year and a half with no problems what so ever
JoeyChopps said:
I have been wondering all day if this is true or an old wives tale. I'm an aircraft mech and we have liquid nitrogen carts for servicing tires and struts. The nitrogen in the bottles its liquid and comes out as a gas and the bottles are on the cart on there sides and they are just fine. Same as lp forklifts there tank is stored on its side right behind the driver. I have a hard time beleving I got "lucky" with my co2 bottles on its side for over a year and a half with several fill ups
Storing co2 bottles on there side is the norm on paint ball guns still thinking this is bs
Smashing said:Yea but the are at a bit of an angle. Shoot one straight down and see how cold things get. Most PB guns don't have regulators on them either, the little bit of liquid that's shot warms up to a gas inline. Those with regs run tanks with anti-siphons in them. It's basically a copper tube that's installed internally in the valve and curved towards the top of the tank to suck only gas. I run them in all of my horizontal tanks.
Bottom line, co2 in a tank is mostly liquid. It makes sense that a horizontal tank can suck liquid and ruin your expensive regs. If you want to run it on it's side your better off having the valve a bit higher than the rest of the tank.
JoeyChopps said:Well that makes sense on how I was "lucky" for all that time stored on its side. The valve on my co2 bottles was slightly higher and the regs were straight up from there. As a plumer once told me "**** don't run up hill." I think this subject is not as clear cut as some of the other posters make it. So I still see no problem with laying a bottles on its side as long as the valve is slightly inverted
Storing co2 bottles on there side is the norm on paint ball guns still thinking this is bs
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