Steyr LP1 co2 ?

darticus · Post by **darticus** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 6:05 pm

Any good thoughts on how you know when your co2 is low?Without a guage?

Tycho · Post by **Tycho** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 7:10 pm

My LP1 does about 270 shots on one cylinder, so I used to weigh off half of a 500 shot tin. Whenever I mount a full cylinder, I take a "new" 250 shot tin, gives me about 20 in reserve.

Warren · Post by **Warren** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 8:25 pm

It's not difficult to weigh your cylinder. All you need is a reasonably accurate digital scale.

But most shooters habitually fill their cylinder after shooting a match, so even having a gauge on a pre-charged air pistol is pretty redundant.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 3:59 am

a pressure gauge on a CO2 pistol would be a bit like training wheels on a Harley - by the time the gauge registered a meaningful drop in pressure it is getting too late: though the release on the old Hammerlis worked fairly well.

These pistols work on the vapour pressure from liquid CO2 - a pressure gauge would only show when the liquid is exhausted, no indication of the liquid remaining

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Denny · Post by **Denny** » Thu Jul 06, 2006 12:35 am

What sort of internal system is used to stop the liquid CO2 sloshing about?

Elmas · Post by **Elmas** » Sun Jul 09, 2006 2:15 am

What sort of internal system is used to stop the liquid CO2 sloshing about

No system IS required... a full cylinder would contain ideally, 53 grams of Liquid CO2 , when you are holding the gun steady , no sloshing... No sloshing detectable even when you are waving the gun around !!

The beauty of CO2 over compressed air.. is that the pressure inside the CO2 cyliinder remains exactly the same ( according to the laws of physics) as long as there is some liquid CO2 remaining... pressure only starts to drop when all liquid has been consumed ( to replenish escaped gaseous CO2 when firing ) .... So you are certain there is exactly the same pressure behind every pellet .

Denny · Post by **Denny** » Sun Jul 09, 2006 3:22 am

Elmas wrote: No system IS required... a full cylinder would contain ideally, 53 grams of Liquid CO2 , when you are holding the gun steady , no sloshing... No sloshing detectable even when you are waving the gun around !!

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If there were no baffling etc, you would be able to feel the liquid moving about.
My guess is it either has a series of solid internal baffles or maybe some sort of mesh that slows the flow of any fluids around.
Anyone know for sure?