Filling The Tank
Newbie here,
No surprise with this question.
When installing the Adapter onto the Bottle, I see no means of (depressing) the Top Hat.
Is it correct to assume that the in-coming pressure depresses the Top Hat and allows for filling?
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Looking at mine it’d be a close call on whether or not the tophat would foul the inside of the adaptor. Certainly very close.
I use option A)
I have only had my SS for a couple months, but I have never removed the top hat and stem, and the instructions did not say to do so. I simply remove it from the gun, screw it into the adapter that I keep on the pump, and start pumping.
You are making sure that the bleed valve is closed, right?
Do I,
A) Remove the Tank intact from the gun, install the adapter, connect to the hand pump and begin cardiac arrest?
B) Remove the tank from the gun, remove the top hat and valve stem and THEN begin cardiac arrest using the hand pump?
If you’ve seen no change in pressure after 100 pumps with the tophat & stem ON, I’d suggest the answer is as simple as the question. 😉
Suck it and see, it’s not like it’s a major operation.
In an effort to make this very simple.
Do I,
A) Remove the Tank intact from the gun, install the adapter, connect to the hand pump and begin cardiac arrest?
B) Remove the tank from the gun, remove the top hat and valve stem and THEN begin cardiac arrest using the hand pump?
Why’s it a bad idea? If the tophat & stem were left on ours we’d get bugger-all air into the bottle. 😆
Removing your valve stem and tophat would be a BAD idea. Maybe the UK versions are different, but you don’t need to do that with the US ones.
I contacted Airforce, and they state to simply attached the adapter onto the Bottle, Tighten the bleed screw on the hand pump and pump away to 3000psi, then loosen the bleed screw and remove the tank.
Now, either I have a defective pump or I’m doing something wrong because I don’t see any change on the pressure gage after 100 strokes.
I don’t know what they told you exactly (obviously), but maybe they just assumed you would remove the tophat & stem? The chaps at the shop do so when filling from the scuba-tank, and I’ve done so when using my pump.
The pressure will open the valve. You are correct
Not to argue with you but.
I contacted Airforce, and they state to simply attached the adapter onto the Bottle, Tighten the bleed screw on the hand pump and pump away to 3000psi, then loosen the bleed screw and remove the tank.
Now, either I have a defective pump or I’m doing something wrong because I don’t see any change on the pressure gage after 100 strokes.
No surprise with this question.
When installing the Adapter onto the Bottle, I see no means of (depressing) the Top Hat.
Is it correct to assume that the in-coming pressure depresses the Top Hat and allows for filling?
You remove the tophat & stem. 🙂
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Acourvil,
Look at me and do not divert your eyes. Ignore everyone else.
Do not remove your top hat and stem….Period.
Screw the adapter to tank. Close bleed valve. Pump, repeat a lot.
When you reach pressure. Open bleed valve and drain all air. Remove tank from adapter.
There you go tank filled