Nearly pushed the button in Amazon to buy the power tank hiflo regulator kit, but thought I'd do the maths on running costs, works out for me in Brisbane to fill a 6.8kg co2 bottle it costs $55, out of that bottle I would get approximately 20 tyre air ups from 8psi to 28psi at a cost of $2.75 per tyre or $11 the set each time I air up & depending on where I'm wheeling I could air up a few times in a weekend so the cost of the Co2 had put me off making up a kit at the moment, I'm going to check with a few gas company's 1st to see if we can get the co2 at a reasonable price, I still love the idea of being able to air up my 37's in about 25 seconds using truck valves, about 45 seconds with standard valves, just have to find the gas at the right price, might check on what a big bottle costs to refill the small bottles myself.
Have you looked into scuba? Cheaper to fill with higher pressure and can even get 3000+psi hand pumps to top it up if your bored. .
Have you looked into scuba? Cheaper to fill with higher pressure and can even get 3000+psi hand pumps to top it up if your bored. .
Only problem with the scuba tanks they dont have anywhere near the capacity of the co2 tanks of the same size, as co2 is a liquid that turns to gas when released, also from memory scuba tanks need a hydro every year compared to 10 years on the co2 tanks
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And the pricing is actually slightly worse as i suspect that you'll not be actually running the cylinder fully out - so you loose a few tire fills each time you change over or suffer with an empty on the trail.
Carrying a second cylinder would fix that but just doesn't seem that practical or cost effective.
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. CO2 is slightly cheaper here in NZ but given your likely use I'd probably go for a top end compressor and tank as well.
