How do you get the valve assymbly off of a bottle?
10-15-2009, 05:50 PM
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How do you get the valve assymbly off of a bottle? I sprayed some penitrating oil around it. Stuch the valve end in a vise and tried to turn the bottle. Then I got the bottle on the bench , stuck a large cresent wrench on the valve and smacked the **** out if the wrench with a hammer. Any ideas?
10-15-2009, 07:03 PM
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Try taking a wratchet-strap and do 1 or two wraps around the bottle and strap it down to your work bench. Then grab your wrench and a dead-blow. It will twist right off.
10-15-2009, 07:37 PM
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10-15-2009, 07:55 PM
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is the bottle steel or alu? get that dam oil out of there before you blow something or someone up. I know the bottle is emptly but man there always seem to get some where is shouldn't be...be very carefull. The strap to a bench works well they are torqued to 100 ftlbs.
10-16-2009, 01:39 PM
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I had to beat the living hell out of the wrench I put on mine with a hammer to get it off. I had an HSW carry handle/mount on mine so I had something to secure the bottle with, but yeah, those things can be on there pretty damn tight. good luck
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10-17-2009, 07:35 PM
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Ok, So the oil was a bad idea. The bottle is empty with the valve open. But yes Ill get it all out and dry before I close it back up. As for the ratchet straps ill try that next,
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oil or grease or just flamable lube. Nitrous is a liquid under pressure, release that pressure pass oil or like substance and it can go boom badly. This will also can happen with a oxgen cyclinder. If you put lube on the threads when you open the bottle the pressure created heat and boom.