Tank Question
Looking to get a Tank.
Better off with a 88ci 3000 psi Alu?
Or a 44ci 4500psi Carbon Fiber?
I can pick up 2 of the 4500 psi tanks with hose and gauge for $399.00
Good to 2016.
Thanks
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If anyone might be interested in ONE of these 4500 psi tanks, let me know.
I don’t need 2 of them but the price is hard to turn down.
Is $175.00 shipped fair enough?
This is JUST for the Tank.
It’s a 44cf, 4500psi rating. Good til 2016.
I’m still a bit new at this, so if my asking price is too high. Just say so.
Thanks
I also have 2 of the 4500 44cf tanks, and I am very happy with them. If space is not an issue I take both along. If both tanks are full I take one along. When one tank gets down to less than 2800 I switch to two stage filling. Use the low tank to charge the talon tank as high as it will go, then top off with the full tank. Do this and you will get a lot of fills.
Sometimes I don’t have the room to take the tanks along in that case I will charge the talon tank, and bring along a 12oz co2 with co2 adaptor. use the co2 to plink, then re-zero with hpa to hunt. If I run out of air it is back to co/2 😥
If you can get 2 4500psi tanks, do that. You will really like the amount of air you can get out of them.
Here’s a calculator chart you can plug the numbers into and get an idea of how many more fills the CF 4500 tanks will give over the scuba tank.
Get the 4500 PSI tank.
My fault,
It’s 44 cubic Feet….not inches.
Cubic INCH? Those are tiny…. I guess they are fine for using with the CO2 adapter if they are regulated, No good for filling your tank. You need a Cubic FOOT tank, for $400 you can get a 4500/4350PSI tank many times larger than those PB tanks.
FYI –
1 cubic inch = 0.000578703704 cubic feet
If you do the math and enter the numbers into the Airhog Fill cal here –
http://www.airhog.com/tank.htm
They say you’ll get ZERO fills.
If you just made a mistake and meant Cubic foot, I apologize – The 44CF, 4500 PSI tanks give a LOT of refills!
No comparing the two. The CF tanks will be WAY lighter, will give WAY many more fills than the scuba tanks. Thats a hell of a deal too I might add for the two CF tanks, hose and guage….
First thing to consider though, is to find someone who will fill to 4500psi. Once you find them, they are the only way to go. I use a local dive shop, or also have a paintball place that will fill both mine to that psi.
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The ‘new old stock’ Firefigher tanks Joe is selling (sometimes called 30 minute tanks, cuz that’s what time you get with SCBA gear) are fiberglass over an aluminum bladder, not the more expensive and lighter carbon fiber. IIRC it adds about four pounds to the weight, about what the weight of the compressed air is when they are filled (total maybe 18 pounds).
This is probably no big deal to you, but I wouldn’t advertise a CF tank and then deliver a glass fiber one.
I agree with the others (having owned both 3000 psi SCUBA and 4500 psi SCBA tanks), 4500 is the way to go if you can get them filled to that, most SCUBA shops can’t. Consider that if you use a 3000 psi tank and you want to fill your gun to 3000 psi, this means not even your first fill will be really full (it’s going to drop to about 2900 on the first use) and every other fill will be less complete.
If you fill to 3000 and shoot down to 2000 like most of us do, you’ll get a dozen full fills from a 30 minute tank filled to 4500 before you start getting short fills.
Besides SCUBA tanks are really heavy and don’t have that keen little ‘how much pressure is left’ gauge built in.
Doug Owen