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paulyfire264
08-13-2004, 12:52 PM
Please read everything and see if you may be able to help.

The Run Down:

I recently purchased an Angel A.I.R. on eBay with an awesome Dark Angel. Well needless to say the tank needed to be hydro tested and a new LCD screen was needed and a mounting bracket was needed as well. After I got it back from the hydro place it was working great I shot about 200rds through it and it was fine. A few days later I gassed it up again and there was Gas leaking from the relief valve. I did some research and found out that the red seal behind the relief valve place can be rotated and still function. Well, I rotated it and drained all the gas thinking it was an o-ring inside the A.I.R. body. Well as it turns out it wasn't. So I took the tank to my local pro-shop and gas was beginning to leak in-between the A.I.R. body and the back plate right by the small ridge on the Burst disk side.

Possible solution.

I recently purchased a tool+parts kit for the Angel A.I.R. and figured that it wouldn't hurt to replace some of the o-rings. When the gas was leaking there was not o-ring on top and inside of the "rocket" inside that little indentation. The little small o-rings that fit inside on the Angel A.I.R. body were replaced.

Should I put an o-ring inside of the "rocket" inside that little indentation, because in the replacement diagram that came with the parts kit and tools it does not picture an o-ring, however according to: http://www.warpig.com/paintball/technical/regulators/air/index.shtml

There is supposed to be one there as shown in their diagram?

I wrote this to ask the experts: please help me if you can.

I would greatly appreciate a response back.

Jouster
08-13-2004, 10:23 PM
Please read everything and see if you may be able to help.

The Run Down:

I recently purchased an Angel A.I.R. on eBay with an awesome Dark Angel. Well needless to say the tank needed to be hydro tested and a new LCD screen was needed and a mounting bracket was needed as well. After I got it back from the hydro place it was working great I shot about 200rds through it and it was fine. A few days later I gassed it up again and there was Gas leaking from the relief valve. I did some research and found out that the red seal behind the relief valve place can be rotated and still function. Well, I rotated it and drained all the gas thinking it was an o-ring inside the A.I.R. body. Well as it turns out it wasn't. So I took the tank to my local pro-shop and gas was beginning to leak in-between the A.I.R. body and the back plate right by the small ridge on the Burst disk side.
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To completely ignore the second half of your question, since I'm not certified on A.I.R.'s...

Did you flip both the red tab and the leaf spring atop it? Just flipping the red tab will not help.

Jouster

paulyfire264
08-14-2004, 02:28 PM
Attn: Jouster

I did flip the red relief seal underneath the releaf cover and that did make a difference in that leak. I then recently gassed it up again and found another leak comming from the burst disk. Do you reccommend for me to replace the burst disk? I think that i wouldn't hurt, and if it doesn't well then i have some spare parts for it too.

Jouster
08-17-2004, 05:49 PM
Attn: Jouster

I did flip the red relief seal underneath the releaf cover and that did make a difference in that leak. I then recently gassed it up again and found another leak comming from the burst disk. Do you reccommend for me to replace the burst disk? I think that i wouldn't hurt, and if it doesn't well then i have some spare parts for it too.
Sorry, bud, I'm walking the thin line of my knowledge as it is. (:thumbsdow to me!) Call up a MT, and report back on what you find out. :)

Jouster

paulyfire264
08-22-2004, 01:00 AM
I did end up replacing all of my O-rings in the regulator. That seemed to fix the leak problem momentarily. However I then had the burst disk blow on me. That has never happened to me before in the 9 years i have been playing paintball. Well needless to say i replaced that and everything seemed fine. About a few days ago after i did fill my tank. I did learn that if you turn the pressure regulator screw too high, gas will start to come out of the pressure releif valve on the side of the tank where the hose fitting is supposed to go. And if the pressure is still increased it may even blow the burst disk as well.

So anyways thanks for your help.

Arnaud
08-24-2004, 06:56 AM
This is why i always dry shoot my Speed/AIR while filling it.
If not, air gets stuck and the output pressure goes up and up till it evacuates through the relief.