Safety Warning on FWB C25 and C55 cylinders.
Check the age of the alloy "paint pot" type cylinders before parting with your cash.
Feinwerkbau offer a download regarding CO2 cylinders and you should read it before buying a C25 (or a C55 that uses the same type alloy CO2 cylinders).
Basically all steel CO2 cylinders should be checked after 10 years, and if there is no sign of internal corrosionwhen inspected they can be re-TUV stamped as "safe" for another 10 years by Feinwerkbau.
The alloy ones are completely different! They are made from an alloy that deteriorates with age and must be destroyed when they are 10 years old as the alloy continues to deteriorate and embrittle.
It makes no difference if the alloy cylinders have been stored with or without gas, it is the alloy that ages.
I had a C25 and had this problem, so be sure the price you pay allows you to buy NEW paint pot type cylinders, because if they are alloy and over 10 years old they cannot be used safely.
Given the production dates of the C25 and C55 CO2 pistols, this warning probably applied to ALL of them that are still being used - unless the cylinders have been replaced already
Now this information is freely available in the public domain you would be on very dodgey ground if a cylinder on a pistol you were holding exploded causing damage or much worse injury to anyone ( including yourself). Likewise when filling the cylinders.
My advice is to go for a Model 2, C10 or C20 instead as they use the tubular shaped steel cylinders that are inherently safer and able to be checked and life extended if appropiate.
The C20 is exactly the same pistol except for the cylinder mounting which is designed to take the standard steel tubular cylinder instead of the alloy paint pot type. They even share the same owners handbook.
Last edited by zooma; 12-06-2011 at 10:38 PM.
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