Ive done everything I can think of. Felt, listened, etc. I used paste to seal the NPT fittings and made sure everything was snug but this last bottle I only got 3 100-shots which it pretty ridiculous. Everyone I have talked to is getting like 7-10 so I am thinking there has to be a minute leak or something wrong. Any ideas?

 

Well soapy water in a spray bottles is always a good way to tell, but your best bet is to cloes the bottle when not in use...plus it reduces stress

 

Sit in the car and if you start laughing then you got a leak !


JK soapy water is the best way in car !

 

what am i doing with soapy water?

 

spray it on connections, and if there is a leak it starts to foam up...bubbles

 

weigh the bottles yourself after someone else fills them....maybe you are getting ripped off?

 

i was just going to say that,how fast was the turn around time on the bottle fill?you have to get the bottle freezed i think and they might not be filling them enough.

 

On the bubble spray, use Dawn liquid soap, dosen't have the chemicals that'll turn your aluiminum/copper into whiteish residue. Ammonia may be whats missing?, but that's what we use at work, because of this issue. It can over time degrade a fitting.
Robert

 

i sat in the store for about 10 minutes while the guy filled it...i will have to check the weight but that would suck because they are one of the only places local that do refills

 

about 2 years ago i used to drop off my bottle and they would put it in a freezer,i would have to come back like 4 to 5 hours later,i don't know if that's changed but it sounds like you didn't get it filled all the way.

 

*most* places use a nitrous pump so you don't have to freeze the bottle to get it full. some places still do it by freezing I 'm sure though.

 

THANK YOU for this post. not that i didn't know how to check for leaks, but i was too lazy and i was SURE my system didn't have any.

so i go out side with the spray bottle and the soapy watter after reading this post and thinking "hmmm, my bottles seem to be going quite fast also". one leak at the bottle nut/adapter on the bottle, and one leak after the n2o filter where i put an adapter. i had to WAY overtighten this adapter to get it to stop leaking, but it stopped and didn't strip/break so it's all good.

so yeah, check that ****. my leak at the filter was bubbling ALOT when i sprayed it with the soapy water, but you could never hear it in a million years and defintely couldn't see it. i also had the notion that i was getting ripped off by the people filling the nitrous, but now i feel differently.

another thing to mention is that NOTHING that i applied teflon paste to leaked! teflon paste is good stuff, i was expecting that crap to leak first.