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woody with a view
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Where to fill a CO2 bottle in Rosarito?
Gonna be headed that way Sunday and my SCBA tank is empty (and WAAAY out of hydro) and i'm looking for a place to fill it up.
Any ideas???
[Edited on 3-27-2015 by woody with a view]
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willardguy
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rosarito ocean sports rents dive gear so I would think they offer fills? kind of across from the festival, gringo owned maybe have a phone#?
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Where is the festival? I looked at their website and it is no help at all and less you know street addresses which I don't.
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woody the festival is the giant hotel nobody goes to anymore just a block north of the rosarito beach hotel. your buddy's pizza restaurant is across
the street. getting a fair buzz!
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Thanks brother.
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I must be missing something here. For what are you using CO2? What is SCBA? I'm old, but in my day we breathed compressed air from a SCUBA tank. Is
this something else. Used for racing?
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woody with a view
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Filling. Tires.
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Co2
Took an old Co2 tank to a welding supply place in Ensenada for a refill, they said it was out of certification and would need to be sent to Mexicali
for recert.......they didn't fill it
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Bring the scba tank here to my place in San Diego and I can fill it even if it is out of hydro.
Larry
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I have found that filling compressed air tanks for SCUBA in Mexico that the shops are more diligent about checking for in Hydro AND requiring a yearly
visual inspection sticker.
Because you can store compressed CO2 as a liquid do you get more tire fills from the same bottle at the same pressures? (because of state change)
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just a regular regulator! it gets cold but doesn't form ice. for anyone counting, i've gotten about 20ish tire fills after deflating for beach driving
in the past 9 months.
Larry, i'll be in touch!
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Any homebrew shop carries regulators that can be used with Co2
http://www.northernbrewer.com/shop/brewing/kegging/the-gover...
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i'm thinking of retiring the SCBA tank. i've got a Coca Cola red CO2 tank complete with Coke sticker and painted red. only problem is my current
regulator doesn't fit it and it's HEAVY!
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Good stuff thanks ... had no idea 
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Air tanks and C02 tanks are the same, so a 58 cf air tank will fill as many tires as a 58cf C02 tank. The only difference is when you compress air and
put it into a high pressure tank is stays a gas. When you compress C02 and put it into a tank it turns to a liquid. You still only get 58 cubic feet
of gas out of either one.
Lencho,
I gave that scba (self contained breathing apparatus) tank to Woody, it is not a scuba tank, it is an old fire dept breathing tank and has never been
in water. Although it is possible for tanks to get water inside from a compressor system that has bad filters. I maintain my filters pretty well,
since I am the one breathing the air in them.
bajaguy
Any high pressure regulator will work for C02, just make sure the intake on the regulator matches the threads on the tank. Almost any inert gas
regulator will work, I like to use an adjustable regulator so I can reduce the pressure if I need to.
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i didn't see them Frank.
+/- 2000 psi.
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I'm thinking they got re-purposed. I would have noticed them. i'll double check.
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What PSI for co2?
I had not considered carrying co2 instead of a slow compressor. Due to the cooling effect of co2 being released from pressure, do you have to make
adjustments to the tire PSI to account for temperature and pressure increase as the tire warms up?
I run oversize tires at fairly low pressure (26 psi max) and even moderate temperature changes make a difference.
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your regulator gets cold, for sure. I've never noticed any loss of pressure as the CO2 slowly warms to ambient temps but never really looked for it
either. I'd say it's negligible.
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Woody I was thinking of not wasting co2 by filling to the desired pressure, then having to bleed some out after the tires heat up.
It probably doesn't make much difference to a full size rig running higher pressure, but with my little SUV, even a moderate climate change affects
the ride, handling, and wear pattern of my tires. I remember chilling several cases of warm beer with a co2 fire extinguisher, so that has to be a
cold tire when it gets filled.
I guess the answer doesn't matter much, I know I will be checking and re checking the tires anyway.
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