Mikaila31
Always Watching
Yeah that sounds like a faulty reg. There is not much that can be wrong with a FE tank. All CO2 tanks are pretty much the same. They all have splurge or safety valves. If the tank is overfilled or gets too hot and the pressure rises above normal that valve blows and releases the gas. It will continue until the tank is empty. Its for this reason very few places fill tanks completely full. Even when I get little 20 ounce paintball tanks filled they only fill and charge you for 19 ounces. Once those safety valves blow, their done and you need to replace that valve on the tank before it will hold gas again. I think my paintball tank did get overfilled once. Since that safety valve did go right after filling, but it was 4 years old too. When I got home and opened the bag it was hissing and had made a good deal of ice because it was so cold lol! New safety valve cost me a $4 for 2 and the place was at least nice enough to put it on for me. I've refilled it a couple times again without issue.
Pressurized CO2 holds little risk too you. Large cylinders should be chained down in the rare chance things go terribly wrong. Those safety valves are there to release pressure in a controlled manner. Even a tank discharging into a room usually isn't a problem. At work they take the huge soda fountain tanks off when they get low and just open the valves. They can hiss for a good 20-30 minuets before totally emptying into the room. They also get covered in ice lol. Dry ice is also the solid form of CO2 and most of us have been around or played with this stuff at some point. Its a good example of how heavier CO2 is then air since you can see all the evaporating CO2 falling to the ground.
Most tanks last a long time past there date. The date IMO is there just to make sure people test them or replace them in the chance they they do fail. My parents have 2 scuba diving oxygen tanks. They are old, last service data was at least 8 years ago. No ones used them since. They were never emptied and if you open them they still hiss like crazy.
Pressurized CO2 holds little risk too you. Large cylinders should be chained down in the rare chance things go terribly wrong. Those safety valves are there to release pressure in a controlled manner. Even a tank discharging into a room usually isn't a problem. At work they take the huge soda fountain tanks off when they get low and just open the valves. They can hiss for a good 20-30 minuets before totally emptying into the room. They also get covered in ice lol. Dry ice is also the solid form of CO2 and most of us have been around or played with this stuff at some point. Its a good example of how heavier CO2 is then air since you can see all the evaporating CO2 falling to the ground.
Most tanks last a long time past there date. The date IMO is there just to make sure people test them or replace them in the chance they they do fail. My parents have 2 scuba diving oxygen tanks. They are old, last service data was at least 8 years ago. No ones used them since. They were never emptied and if you open them they still hiss like crazy.
