1st Time CO2 Tank Hookup

[senfo]

I am completely new to CO2 tanks and kegging, so I'm hoping I'm just doing something completely wrong, but I hooked my tank up to my regulator and turned the gas on and it started spraying out of the holes on the side of the valve on the CO2 tank. Was I supposed to do something first? I checked the directions and I have no clue what I could be doing wrong.

 

[senfo]

Bah, so I figured it out. I thought it was coming out of the holes in the side of the CO2 tanks shutoff valve, but turns out I had a massive leak in the tube on the output side of my regulator. Not sure how that passed QA, but I'm good now (I hope).

I feel like an idiot now, but I just assumed I was doing something wrong.

 

[Fordzilla]

No need to feel like an idiot. Everybody does everything for the first time once!