Divers bottle/air rife filling

[Gerard c.]

1st Just had bottle filled at Ocean Turtle Diving Basingstoke Great place filled in minutes £5.00 Nice and cheap, NOW my question is this got home and a friend of mine said he has a large compressor which i could use if I wished is this feasible? or not can anyone tell me? Many Thanks in advance.

[oldboyshooter]

1st Just had bottle filled at Ocean Turtle Diving Basingstoke Great place filled in minutes £5.00 Nice and cheap, NOW my question is this got home and a friend of mine said he has a large compressor which i could use if I wished is this feasible? or not can anyone tell me? Many Thanks in advance.

hello, not unless it is one designed and made for PCP air rifle filling, or for filling Dive bottles

[Solvo]

A normal air compressor (as used in workshops and construction) will charge to 8 bar with rather dirty air. Not going to do much for a 230 / 300 bar cylinder that needs clean dry air.
few people outside the sport seem to understand the immense pressure needed by a PCP.

Stick to dive shops, £5 is a good deal, rip-off merchants near me slapped a £20 surcharge on my last fill for some spurious BS reason to do with it being a surface cylinder and requiring extra cooling/special handling / rarefied mountain air /chicken sacrifice to keep the dive god happy.

[RobF]

Stick to dive shops, £5 is a good deal, rip-off merchants near me slapped a £20 surcharge on my last fill for some spurious BS reason to do with it being a surface cylinder and requiring extra cooling/special handling / rarefied mountain air /chicken sacrifice to keep the dive god happy.

Are you sure that wasn't a visual inspection?

[Steyr]

Scuba tanks - surface air or otherwise, need a high pressure and they need filtered systems better than found on commercial plant.

The air is not Dry - but a lot of the moisture is removed. Humans are generally breathing this and need some moisture otherwise the throat would dry and they would dehydrate. Even snorkelling leaves your throat bone dry and that's normal air with water evaporating all around.

This is specialist kit needing regular servicing and probably engineer inspection to comply with safety and legislation/insurance conditions.

In the same way I would never use a stirrup pump to fill my gun, I would not use anything other than a proper dive compressor to fill my tanks

[Gerard c.]

Scuba tanks - surface air or otherwise, need a high pressure and they need filtered systems better than found on commercial plant.

The air is not Dry - but a lot of the moisture is removed. Humans are generally breathing this and need some moisture otherwise the throat would dry and they would dehydrate. Even snorkelling leaves your throat bone dry and that's normal air with water evaporating all around.

This is specialist kit needing regular servicing and probably engineer inspection to comply with safety and legislation/insurance conditions.

In the same way I would never use a stirrup pump to fill my gun, I would not use anything other than a proper dive compressor to fill my tanks

Thanks steyr got stirrup pump but never used as worried about the rifle and looking after it. ok I only have an air arms s200 but its all I could afford and I must look after It

[Solvo]

Are you sure that wasn't a visual inspection?

Oh yes. £7.50 for the fill, and a £20 surcharge for it being a surface cylinder which "has special filling requirements" wont be going back there again.
Nothing wrong with the cylinder, it was about 3 months old from BestFittings.
Was about to spend on a new Leatherman while i was in the shop but needless to say didn't.

Stick to the quality £5 fills.

[RobF]

Oh yes. £7.50 for the fill, and a £20 surcharge for it being a surface cylinder which "has special filling requirements" wont be going back there again.
Nothing wrong with the cylinder, it was about 3 months old from BestFittings.
Was about to spend on a new Leatherman while i was in the shop but needless to say didn't.

Stick to the quality £5 fills.

Definitely sounds like one to avoid!

[angrybear]

Oh yes. £7.50 for the fill, and a £20 surcharge for it being a surface cylinder which "has special filling requirements" wont be going back there again.
Nothing wrong with the cylinder, it was about 3 months old from BestFittings.
Was about to spend on a new Leatherman while i was in the shop but needless to say didn't.

Stick to the quality £5 fills.

What exact details did they give when you told them they were talking utter arse water ?

As with incorrect info given at Post Offices, if you & I don't challenge it, we only have ourselves to blame.

[Gerard c.]

A normal air compressor (as used in workshops and construction) will charge to 8 bar with rather dirty air. Not going to do much for a 230 / 300 bar cylinder that needs clean dry air.
few people outside the sport seem to understand the immense pressure needed by a PCP.

Stick to dive shops, £5 is a good deal, rip-off merchants near me slapped a £20 surcharge on my last fill for some spurious BS reason to do with it being a surface cylinder and requiring extra cooling/special handling / rarefied mountain air /chicken sacrifice to keep the dive god happy.

Yep they are ok down to earth people thats what I thought and have told game keeper,

[big rob]

Some dive shops can be fussy we have our cylinders tested at flame skill to British standards fully certified but the local dive centre won't fill them because the date stamp has not got a fish stamped they say it's not valid
It's a joke as they test the bottles for offshore and breathing apparatus for fire fighting

[RobF]

Fish stamp?

[zpaulg]

A normal air compressor (as used in workshops and construction) will charge to 8 bar with rather dirty air. Not going to do much for a 230 / 300 bar cylinder that needs clean dry air.
few people outside the sport seem to understand the immense pressure needed by a PCP.

Stick to dive shops, £5 is a good deal, rip-off merchants near me slapped a £20 surcharge on my last fill for some spurious BS reason to do with it being a surface cylinder and requiring extra cooling/special handling / rarefied mountain air /chicken sacrifice to keep the dive god happy.

Challenging the illustrious chicken sacrifice is a good way to end up getting cursed!

[Dodger21]

I’ve had 2 tested this month and there is no fish stamp,both of these done at CTS in Liverpool.