mark newby Posted April 10, 2009 Report Share Posted April 10, 2009 hello all, looking for some advice, i have been told that you can use pub C02 to charge the cylinder on a gas powered rifle rather that using divers air bottle as i am doing at the moment, is this right? would it damage the rifle at all? and any idea where i could get a regulator to fit? its just i can get a fully charged C02 cylinder for nothing and at the moment dont have a divers bottle. thanks in advance for any help with this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CZ550Kevlar Posted April 10, 2009 Report Share Posted April 10, 2009 DON`T DO IT!!!!! CO2 is stored as a liquid, filling an air rifle with this will screw your seals etc and introduce water into you system, this will lead to corossion. Also CO2 pressure is vastly different from air. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
realtreedave Posted April 10, 2009 Report Share Posted April 10, 2009 before going into the damage it would cause,your pellets would never reach the end of the barrel because co2 works at much lower presures,co2 guns have the internals to actualy make the co2 boil to get enough pressure to propel the pellet out of the barrel.precharged air rifles release the air in a more direct way as air doesnt have to boil to raise the pressure.when co2 is released and forced to boil it releases latent energy that freezes the suroundings,increase the pressure up to pcp levels this effect will be magnified to levels where not only seals are cracking but light alloys are being prematurely aged and becoming brittle and cracking.this can and has been done before but it is far more complicated and involved than changing the gas,it can only be done if the gun has been specificaly designed and developed from scratch to run on two so totaly different power sources :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bullet boy Posted April 10, 2009 Report Share Posted April 10, 2009 Always use power sources as recommended by the Airgun supplier/manufacturer otherwise serious damage could occur to either the rifle or more importantly to you.PLEASE BE WARNED. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryantidgwell Posted April 10, 2009 Report Share Posted April 10, 2009 << confused is your air rifle a gas one ? or a PCP one ? did not think you could recharge a gas cartridge? as when its screwed in it is pearced ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CZ550Kevlar Posted April 10, 2009 Report Share Posted April 10, 2009 << confused is your air rifle a gas one ? or a PCP one ? did not think you could recharge a gas cartridge? as when its screwed in it is pearced ? You can`t recharge a CO2 cartridge when pierced however it is possible to engineer a bottle that is refillable and acts in the same way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryantidgwell Posted April 10, 2009 Report Share Posted April 10, 2009 Yea had a look on line and see you could buy bottles for curtain co2 guns what you can charge your self Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Burpster Posted April 10, 2009 Report Share Posted April 10, 2009 Cooper T is your freind....... http://www.cooper-t.com/index.html You CAN recharge CO2 resevoirs from big bottles as sugested but you do need to read up on it first. For a gun like a Ratcatcher they are great..... BUT its still CO2 and on cold days they are **** so dont expect anything like a full power rifle.... I rebuilt a ratcatcher and re o-ringed it with air o-rings (CO2 o-rings are a different compound and need to be) and use a Cooper T - 5605 Air Source to Air Source SKU #5605 to back fill a CO2 cart with air to produce an air rifle. It does take a lot of messing about tho' CO2 in a normal PCP airgun = dangerous waste of time and effort. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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