Strikey wrote:No, most air rifles are only supplied from new with either a fill probe or a female foster fitting, it is up to you to source the micro bore air hose and suitable fill adapter for the SCBA/SCUBA tank either K type or DIN. A 200bar bottle is a waste of time as you only get a few fills before the pressure drops below the air rifles fill pressure, steel 300bar bottles are the only ones to have and where are these gunshops that fill them for you??
okay didn't know that.
A big 200 Bar cylinder will give more fills before pressure drop off. And can be filled to around 232 Bar as an operating pressure.
Most 200 Bar valves are actually 232 Bar though some are 207 Bar
And yes a 300 Bar cylinder is better, a lot of dive shops won't fill to 300 Bar though as the banks are usually 350 Bar and a 300 Bar fill will reduce the high end of the bank array meaning they have to run the compressor again.
And yes only steel tanks are rated to 300 Bar. If you see an aluminium tank with a 300 Bar valve in it leave it alone.
We can build and supply fill hoses and when I finally get off my arse and finish it we will have a shooting portal on our web store.
If you're building a fill whip fit a UNIDIN spigot, it's got a flat end like a 200 Bar and 7 threads like a 300 Bar so will actually fit both valves and is very handy, but expensive @$125 inc GST for the spigot only