Thursday, November 10, 2011

Azodin Inline Regulator

Picked one of these up so I could run my mag on CO2 again.

So first thing -- I opened the top half just to get a look at it and make sure it had enough lube.  Looked like it, so I put the thing back together.

Gassed it up, noticed it was only doing like 2-300 PSI.

Tried turning it up, but the snap ring retainer was blocking the nut, so I ripped that out, gassed it back up...

...  and the thing just started venting continuously.

So I pulled the bottom piston out to find a very fucked up o-ring.  Neither buna nor urethane.  No idea what it was.  Pulled a matching buna o-ring out of a Tiberius parts kit and reassembled.

Worked fine, dialed the PSI up to about 450, nearing the effective max of the regulator, and sent about 100 shots of CO2 through, with no problems.

Recharge was OK; seemed fast enough for what I'm going to be using it for.

Finally, a CO2 tolerant regulator that doesn't cost $100!  Fuck Palmers.

Need to make sure all the threads/etc are metric or standard.  The fitting is definitely standard.

If they were smart, the pressure adjustment screw would be 1/8" NPT as well, because then you could just reuse a fitting plug.  Chances are probably not though.

Using the Azodin Inline Regulator on my Automag

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