Leland Regulators

[pizzaman]

I happened across this site selling nifty looking regulators: Leland Limited: Regulating Valves after finding this external thread:The Brewing Network • View topic - adapted leland regulator to paintball co2 tank

Their order form is rather sketchy, and the site has no pricing info to be found. Anyone ever order from them or found an online supplier?

Here are some action shots of the regulators:

 

[Arkador]

saw a kit this weekend, where one of these was setup to work with a 4oz paintball tank, and a 4liter minikeg.

 

[jfenton78]

Pizzaman,

Leland is the original manufacturer of those regulators. I tried to get a quote once, but never got it. Although to my own fault I never followed up either. The regulators are also available from morebeer and Williams brewing. Price at Morebeer and Williams is about $130. Keep is mind that the normal CO2 cartridge is a 68g cartridge which normally sells for about $10. If you get a price from Leland please post it.

jf

 

[pizzaman]

Yeh, I just found them at morebeer: Mini CO2 Regulator Kit | MoreBeer

For some reason I thought since they were smaller and cuter they would be cheaper. Obviously I was mistaken.

 

[Arkador]

http://www.totalpaintballgear.com/products/wgp-outkast-lp-regulator--.html
Small, ajustable from 0psi. I know my paintball gun uses one similar to this. the output line is pretty small, but I am sure that a pressure gyage can be incorporated into it, and it is only $15

 

[BungBrewing]

Does anyone know of a company that makes an adpater for the Leland regulator to connect it to paintball CO2 tanks? I have four of these regulators I was going to use to build portable kegerators and this is the one thing left for me to finish my project.

 

[BungBrewing]

After pestering Williams Brewing for the past three months, they finally have an adapter... (Released last week)

http://www.williamsbrewing.com/BREWER_S_EDGE_PAINTBALL_MINI__P2656C117.cfm

 

[HoppyDaze]

guys...hand pumps will do the exact same thing. Those little cartridges will not keep CO2 in solution. It takes 3 oz of CO2 (I believe) for a five gallon tank the cartridges mease CO2 in grams (not enough to keep a keg carbed)... So why bother with switching out five cartridge over the course of the keg when you can just use a hand pump?...the keg is going flat either way and needs to be drank within a short period of time

 

[advent]

Leland quoted me $185 for a single N24 regulator.. I was like

i dont see how williams brewing can sell them for $115-150 and then the supplier sells them for $185.. maybe buy them in bulk by the 1000s.. I still want one but im not buying at that price..

 

[camiller]

Leland quoted me $185 for a single N24 regulator.. I was like

i dont see how williams brewing can sell them for $115-150 and then the supplier sells them for $185.. maybe buy them in bulk by the 1000s.. I still want one but im not buying at that price..

If I had to guess, Williams probably buys them a hundred at a time or so. A big manufacture doesn't want to deal with individuals and small orders. But if you buy a couple of cartons of 50 you will get a significant price break right up front. I know one wholesale catalog would sell me individual o-rings for like $5 but a bag of 100 was <$2. These places don't want open cartons/packages of products setting around their warehouses -- that is what retailers are for.

 

[camiller]

guys...hand pumps will do the exact same thing. Those little cartridges will not keep CO2 in solution. It takes 3 oz of CO2 (I believe) for a five gallon tank the cartridges mease CO2 in grams (not enough to keep a keg carbed)... So why bother with switching out five cartridge over the course of the keg when you can just use a hand pump?...the keg is going flat either way and needs to be drank within a short period of time

Personally I would carbonate the beer with my 10Lb cylinder but would still consider dispensing with the small cart for portability sake. Since you only have to replace the volume your dispensing a couple of the small carts should work and williams sells a 45g cartridge which should dispense a 5 gallon keg quite nicely.

That said, the original post was about adapting it to a paintball tank which are typically 12-20 ounces and enough to dispense several kegs.

 

[Vongo]

Anyone happy with this regulator? Just purchased one... also new to kegging.

 

[BungBrewing]

I finally got my portable kegerators assembled a few weeks ago. I was very happy with the way the Leland regulators worked for me. I also used chromed (brass) quick disconnects, which made it simple to detach from the kegerator (I got the valved ones so someone wouldn't "accidentally" open my regulator and waste all my CO2 if the lines weren't connected). My only reservation was the fact that my regulators were the model that have a 0-70 PSI scale on it, but then again I paid less than $25 each when I got them on Ebay. If you're paying full price for this regulator, you might want to get the smaller scale so you have a little finer control on your pressure.

 

[Vongo]

Great feedback thanks!