Re: [APD] Re: Orientation of CO2 Tank

["S. Hieber" <shieber at yahoo_com>]

I feel like the laws of physics have abandoned me . . .
  :-O

sh
--- Vaughn Hopkins <hoppy1 at surewest_net> wrote:

> . . .  
> You are getting 
> away with it now because of the very, very low flow rate
> involved, and 
> that might let  you get away with it forever. . .

> 
> On Wednesday, February 16, 2005, at 04:01 PM, S. Hieber
> wrote:
> 
> > Did that say how many days it would take for this
> freezing
> > to occur? It's been a few now and mine hasn't frozen.
> >
> > The liquid is the same temperature as the gas. The
> liquid
> > is at the same pressure. I doubt that it will freeze
> > anything. And if it did, that wouldn't be a cause for
> > venting, it would just mean that either the it plugs up
> > with ice until defrosted or would freeze at a given
> presure
> > setting. But there shouldn't be much moisture in the
> CO2
> > gas anyhow, so ice should not be forming anyway. If it
> > does, then you probalby need to have the inside flushed
> and
> > dried so that the water doesn't corrode the innards.
> >
> > Scott H.
> > --- Tom Wood <tomwood2 at flash_net> wrote:
> >
> >>> No. The CO2 tank contains both liquid CO2 and gaseous
> >>> CO2. When the tank is upright, the gas flows out of
> the
> >>> regulator. But if used on their side, liquid will
> flow
> >>> into the regulator, with bad consequences
> >>
> >> "Uh actuall not so, since the output pressure is the
> same
> >> either way, all you get is gas going "through" the
> >> regulator, i.e. through the metering orifice inthe
> >> regulator and through the lowpressure side of the
> >> regulator.
> >>
> >> If your CO2 is running, go turn the tank upside down
> and
> >> see what happens."
> >>
> >> I just got a refill on my CO2 cylinder and asked them
> >> what would happen.
> >> They said that the mechanism inside the safety valve
> >> would freeze up and
> >> then start venting gas. The safety valve is the brass
> >> nipple-looking thingy
> >> with the holes drilled in it below and opposite the
> >> connection fitting.
> >>
> >> TW
> >>
> >>
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