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f9k9 wrote:...I still wanna go CO2 and am looking at some options with the paintball tanks on walmart.com.

Find us a good high flow high pressure regulator for air bottles. And then find a paintball shop that can fill high pressure bottles. That or join your local fire department so you can fill your own.
I know a guy that has a few 4500 psi bottles

Back when I worked for an outdoor store with a scuba shop, we filled all of the local fire department tanks cause we had one of the only "breathable" air compressors in town. I don't remember what we used to charge for a fill, but it wasn't much.

Running that rig scared the bejeesus out of me though - I was always afraid of a tank rupturing on me. Even though we did annuals on all of our scuba equipment, and sent them off on a regular basis for their stress tests (every 3 years maybe? been a while) the firefighters stuff was foreign to us, we didn't know when they had been tested , and the tanks were this spun fiberglass looking stuff that looked fragile - although they were rated at higher PSI than a scuba tank.

HenryJ wrote:................Find us a good high flow high pressure regulator for air bottles...............I know a guy that has a few 4500 psi bottles

I have not researched it yet but, this is a thread on my local crawler forum.......Husky 0-125PSI regulators for $20

I do have access to having a CO2 tank being recharged locally. What does your contact want for one of his?

Need to find a regulator that will handle 0-4500 psi

This might be one of those things where one shows up on your door step

The regulator seems to be the problem. I can find some medical use gauges that go that high, but flow very little. It really needs to be something that will drop from 4500 psi to 125 psi and flow enough to run an air tool.

Cost may be the deciding factor here. Regulators designed for that kind of pressure may well cost more than a whole CO2 system.
A free bottle would not be a bargain then.

BTT on this one. I am still actively searching for an answer.

I think the local welding supply can provide the correct nipple to attach to the bottles. I am still stumped on a regulator. We have one that we use for the airbags and air chisel on the rescue. I need to take a closer look.

I have been searching on and off regularly. I need to prod "Bad" into using his uncanny search ability on this one