Check valves for side-saddle setups

[MuKen]

I've been using these for awhile and just thought I'd share, and maybe see if there's some other options that people with side-saddle lever changers are using:

https://www.mscdirect.com/product/details/86723491

https://www.mscdirect.com/product/details/04108528

Both are really compact ways to get a check valve setup into your phantom. The second one is a little more compact, but also is only rated for 500psi, as such I got kind of nervous and upgraded to using the first one which is rated for 6000psi but a little longer so the side saddle sits further out. It's not obtrusively so though, so imo worth it for the piece of mind.

Do you guys know of any other check valve alternatives that you've been using?

[GanonsGrin]

What about the spring, ball bearing and tiny o-ring variant? Primitive, but it works surprisingly well.

[MuKen]

I might just be bad at putting them together, but the times I've used those, they work, but after some use they start to leak a bit. They'll still hold a charge for a light shot, but they definitely start losing some pressure. These industrial ones are just much better built than when I try to put something together myself; they hold all the gas in indeterminately and keep full efficiency.

[Jonnydread]

I've used a variety of check valves through the years, but I haven't found them to be particularly useful.

[MuKen]

I like them particularly to counteract the efficiency loss from using a phantom stabilizer valve. Those normally are bad for 12g efficiency because they have so much volume that needs to be repressurized on each new 12g. The check valve mitigates this by keeping the volume pressurized between changes.

[Jonnydread]

MuKen that makes sense, I had a side saddle setup but I didn't use a regulator on it.

[Trbo323]

Agd 6 pak has one built in. Problem solved

But really it's pretty similar to the ball bearing method above

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