Can anyone tell me what this is?

[RAWhiteFSU]

This regulator looks unlike any I have seen. Any ideas?

 

[wyzazz]

Looks like an O2 flow regulator to me.

 

[pabloj13]

looks like an o2 flow regulator to me.

+1

 

[RAWhiteFSU]

Hooked up to a CO2 tank?

 

[pabloj13]

Hooked up to a CO2 tank?

Well that's just how Seminoles roll.

 

[Homercidal]

Looks like the flow meter on our welders. Co2+Argon IIRC.

 

[pabloj13]

Some of our CO2 tank regulators have flow meters for metering the CO2 during rodent euthanasia.

 

[DPBISME]

I have only seen those on 02 cylinders.
But gas is gas right?
If you are concerned call your local Industrial Gas Company (Airgas is one I know but there are others)… they are the experts.
DPB

 

[edmanster]

well, gas is not just gas were as co2 is inert and o2 is not but this case it's ok to use the regulator

 

[day_trippr]

fwiw, I have one of those on my mixed-gas MIG welding tank...

Cheers!

 

[lewdog50]

its for co2 diffusion in fish tanks. The sight glass on the side is a bubble counter and it looks like it has a magnetic valve.

http://http://www.ebay.com/itm/CO2-Pressure-Regulator-Magnetic-Valve-Bubble-Counter-/270768189929?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3f0b0ab1e9

 

[bdh]

I'd vote that it's a single stage regulator connected to a flow meter (with flow control valve). It's extremely unlikely that it's an 02 regulator connected to a CO2 tank or anything like that. Regulator fittings are different depending on the type of gas they're designed for specifically to keep people from connecting the wrong type of regulator to a gas tank.

 

[daksin]

Yea, definitely a regulator with flow meter. You most often see flow meters on medical oxygen, but as this is a CO2 tank, it's definitely not an oxygen regulator. Oxygen tanks are threaded backwards.

 

[RAWhiteFSU]

Does it have any use for a homebrewer?

 

[pabloj13]

Does it have any use for a homebrewer?

Sure. You can just use the regulator to set the output pressure and then just open the flowmeter full bore. It would then function as a regular old CO2 regulator.

 

[JRems]

Yea, definitely a regulator with flow meter. You most often see flow meters on medical oxygen, but as this is a CO2 tank, it's definitely not an oxygen regulator. Oxygen tanks are threaded backwards.

oxygen tank are not threaded backwards! I have 2 tanks and they have normal thread. It's slightly different size than co2.

 

[bdh]

Does it have any use for a homebrewer?

Not sure what sort of setup this is on, but some breweries will bubble CO2 up from the bottom of the fermenter for various reasons like agitating floculated yeast, driving off volatile compounds, etc...

If you were doing something like that then you'd want a flow meter on there so you knew how much CO2 you were giving.