Fill Pressure Control Unit…..

One of the problems I have is no regulator on my rifle. I have found there is a range of upper and lower psi that my pcp performs best within, and shots within that psi “zone of accuracy” have the least psi deviation between shots. The less deviation in pellet weight, and air pressure per shot, equals tight groups and clean kills.

Pellets can be weighed precisely. No problem there. Quality pellets don’t need to be weighed. They are what they say they are. (JSB, Edgun pellets, etc)

So, to avoid wasting air, and fill precisely to the max pressure in my personal “zone of accuracy”, I am unable to find a means to fill my rifle slowly…and I mean very slowly, and have the capability to shut it off within a pound or two of my known maximum pressure for an accurate first shot.

I have spoken to Jim Gaska about this, questioning what could be an affordable solution to those of us who know what pressures we need to stay within, but are unable to achieve this with OEM fill equipment and button gauges.

I’m calling it a “Fill Pressure Control Unit” for lack of a better name. Jim said he had some ideas and would get back to me with a workable solution. It shouldn’t be brain science, or rocket surgery, just a means to dial fill rate pressures up or down with precision, and a gauge that that would give an accurate reading (+/- 1 psi) than the tiny gauges on existing equipment.

With a sixty mile round trip to get a 3450 psi tank fill, I don’t want to lose two to three hundred psi every time I fill, plus waste those early pellets flying all over the place. A regulated gun will give fifty to 70 shots per fill, depending on FPS/FPE desired. I’m lucky to get thirty full power shots per fill, so I fill a lot in an afternoon’s shooting, and I often have to bleed a hundred, usually more, lbs of psi off. My scuba valve sometimes decides to blast air in so fast my rifle cylinder get hot. Ok….sometimes I just crack it a bit too much…it just happens (too often).

I want to simply open that scuba valve, and then precisely control how fast and how much air I place in my rifle cylinder.

So, stay tuned pneumatonauts…and perhaps, unlike my last massage visit, I’ll come up with a happy ending, instead of empty promises, for my hard earned dollars.

Pictures and details will be posted after this “device” arrives. Cost is unknown at this time. But if he can bring it in at $30 to $50, it will eventually pay for itself. And….I might even begin to hit those damn geese in the head instead of the butt.

Regards,

Kindly ‘Ol Uncle H 😯 😯 T

PS: Yeah yeah…I know, some of you already do this with your personally designed gear, but I’m not you, nor are a lot of others. We need something that plugs in and works every time! And until my R3 arrives, I’ve got to tough it out with my AA S510!