all regulators work with co2?

[fouge]

Hi.

All is in the title. All regulators work with co2 or not?

Fouge

[Toestr]

As far as I know yes, but the rub is that it must be gaseous.

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[Jonnydread]

Most of the regs that are marketed for CO2 just have an extra filter medium. The ones that's are better with CO2 tend to be more resilient against liquid CO2, but like Toestr said all regs will work with CO2, but some regs don't tolerate the liquid.

[fouge]

Thanks, I wanted to be sure

[JonM]

I posed this question to Inception Designs as it relates to their HPR. The response I got back was that it’s not recommended. In theory it could work, but the seals used in some regs may not hold up well to CO2.

[Chappy]

Regs marketed for CO2 should have a bleed off past the regulation. The only one I can remember off the top of my head are palmers, maybe the old WGPs? I cant remember. Sidewinders I think? LOL I dunno been a long time since I thought about it.
Without this, if liquid gets past the reg you can see a very significant pressure spike. In something like a sweetspotted cocker it will cause a drop, but on a Tippmann or similar high pressure gun it can cause a big fps spike. As long as you can keep liquid out your ok, but that is often easier said then done. IT is more then tolerating the CO2, without the pressure bleed off, it can cause the gun fps to either drop off or spike.

[Trbo323]

Regs marketed for CO2 should have a bleed off past the regulation. The only one I can remember off the top of my head are palmers, maybe the old WGPs? I cant remember. Sidewinders I think? LOL I dunno been a long time since I thought about it.
Without this, if liquid gets past the reg you can see a very significant pressure spike. In something like a sweetspotted cocker it will cause a drop, but on a Tippmann or similar high pressure gun it can cause a big fps spike. As long as you can keep liquid out your ok, but that is often easier said then done. IT is more then tolerating the CO2, without the pressure bleed off, it can cause the gun fps to either drop off or spike.

Smart parts sp1, gog emny regs. Although they are all pretty terrible for other reasons so I wouldn't recommend them

Mechanically speaking yes, you can run any reg on co2 gas, the problem is the seals. If they are buna, chances are higher that the temperature change they will go through will really shorten their life. If you replace the rings with polyurethane it will really help the regulator last longer

Now that said, I run a empire sniper on co2 with no modification at all, I am only running 12g carts though. The only problem I've had is a blown macro hose when the marker was sitting on its side on a table, basically ensuring liquid pooled in the line. And it was a thinner wall line as I found out after

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[latches109]

Hi.

All is in the title. All regulators work with co2 or not?

Fouge

Air America regs come to mind and will hold up better to liquid CO2.

[Mr. Hick]

Back in the middle 2000's and even unto 2010 I used primarily co2 on mechanical markers and I found that macro lines and fittings were more than likely to fail than regulators. Keep them bottles pointed to the sky as much as possible and leave that gat in the shade. I also switched all buna rings to Poly as soon as possible.

Keep in mind that even the best regulators got smoked out once the ROF brought liquid into them... Even still, I would routinely have frost on my Sidewinder or Stabilizer and have them shoot without too many dips in velocity.