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This filling adapter is small, sweet,
and pretty much fool proof. These allow ANY dive
store or Scuba shop to re-fill your compressed air
cylinders. This filling adapter will work with BOTH
300 bar and 200 bar DIN style scuba tank valves
making this a MUST HAVE accessory. This DIN to Yoke
adapter is also required when you travel, even here
in the USA because most dive shops are NOT set up
for filling the High Pressure DIN style valves.
Note: This is NOT the cheap Sherwood
one piece brass model that cannot be adjusted! This
unit allows for 360 degree adjustment making the
Yoke placement, attachment, and filling simple and
easy. This requires no tools, and can be instantly
installed or removed as desired.
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SCUBA:
The threaded screw in DIN
valves are standard for technical, cave, and wreck
divers. The DIN fittings are standard in Europe and
offer more safety than the typical sport diving clamp on
Yoke style regulators making these popular world wide.
High pressure cylinders exceeding 3,500 psi are required
by law to use DIN connections. This convenient adapter
converts a DIN style cylinder valve so it can be used
with a standard YOKE style filling attachment. This
allows all the Scuba stores to re-fill your cylinders. |
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AIR GUNS:
Many paint ball and high powered pellet gun owners
now use standard Scuba cylinders to re-fill their
pellet and paint ball guns. CO2 is expensive, and is
getting hard to find in many locations, and
compressed air is cheap and always easy to find. So
now you go out and shoot all you want for only
pennies.
Note:
This adapter will not
work with fire department 4,500 psi. Scott air pack
cylinders
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Question:
The adapter does not
fit my valve.
Answer: We have
seen this problem twice before. This is usually caused
by the cylinder valve not being standard, or having the
correct internal cut away for the nipple, or center air
delivery tube. This is not a substandard adapter design,
but caused from older style US made or imported non
standard Euro DIN valve. The popular solution is to
modify the adapter. Just cut off or file down the little
air delivery tube flush with the threaded end of the DIN
adapter. This will usually get around the valve problem
and allow for more threads to engage.
Warning: You NEVER want to alter a cylinder
valve! |
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Uses: Adapters
were invented so Euro style threaded DIN Scuba valves
could be used with US yoke filling Scuba stations. Tank
fill adapters are popular with both paint ball & pellet
gun owners allowing them to utilized less expensive
compressed air from Scuba cylinders. |
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Adapter basics:
This adapter is designed for compressed air use only, it
will NOT fit cylinder valves designed for other gasses,
including O2, CO2, NO, Nitrogen, Argon, He, and son on.
These cannot be used with fire department air packs
cylinders or valves. All the assorted cylinder valves
are designed differently so people cannot mix them up
with the wrong gasses, especially when used for life
support. This is a safety feature required by federal
law and the CGA. |
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Pressure rating:
This fill adapter is designed for 200 bar, that is a
typical range of 3,000 psi to 3,300 psi service
pressure. Although many adapters will also fit on the
300 bar high pressure DIN valves, this higher pressure
levels exceed the design rating of the adapter. Both
valves are about the same, except the higher pressure
300 bar has more threads and is a little deeper. The
valve depth prevents a 200 bar regulator from being used
with a 300 bar cylinder. |
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Cylinders: Most
aluminum and steel Scuba cylinders function between the
2,400 psi to 3,500 psi. range. This is what the adapter
is designed to safely operate with. High pressure
composite carbon fiber, and glass fiber wrap aluminum in
the 3,500 psi to 4,500 psi range should NOT be used with
ANY type of adapter at all. Using such high pressure
levels with the incorrect adapter, hoses, or fittings
can get you instantly injured or killed. |
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