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Steyr LP1 co2 and CA
Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2010 7:49 am
by GuestFI
What happen if i put air to co2 pistol?The seller says that he is used co2 and air without modifications on the pistol?is it possible?Can the air pressure broke something?
Re: Steyr LP1 co2 and CA
Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2010 7:57 am
by GuestFI
GuestFI wrote:What happen if i put air to co2 pistol?The seller says that he is used co2 and air without modifications on the pistol?is it possible?Can the air pressure broke something?
pistol is manufactured in 1991 and it has black sylinders and compensator
Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2010 9:21 am
by Cones
I would not advise doing that. The air cylinders operate at a far greater pressure than the Co2 ones do.
This high air pressure is normally lowered with a regulator that is fitted to the pistol.
HTH
Mark
Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2010 9:33 am
by peterz
Steyr still has an adapter kit listed in their accessory catalog. Try that.
Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2010 11:10 am
by GuestFI
pistol is not my yet.I don't know how much air he is used in pistol.Can air broke co2 parts in pistol?it is not cheap pistol and i don't want to buy it if the air(what he is used) is worn something..
Re: Steyr LP1 co2 and CA
Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2010 11:41 am
by jipe
GuestFI wrote:What happen if i put air to co2 pistol?The seller says that he is used co2 and air without modifications on the pistol?is it possible?Can the air pressure broke something?
No, it is not possible. The pistol is not made to work with more than about 70bar pressure (it is the regulator of an PCP AP that reduces the pressure to about 70bar, this regulator doesn't exist in a CO2 pistol).
The CO2 cylinder are also not made to work at high pressure.
Now what does the seller mean whe he says "without modification of the pistol" ?
The Steyr conversion kit from CO2 to air consists of a regulator, two air cylinders and a cylinder filling adapter.
The regulator is added in front of the CO2 system (it also changes the cylinder mounting thread) so litteraly, the pistol itself is not modified by the kit, the regulator can be seen as a kind of add-on to the CO2 pistol.
Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2010 1:17 pm
by Makris D. G.
It is technically possible to run a compressed air pistol on CO2, but that would probably be bad for the seals and might cause rusting in the regulator.
Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2010 5:51 pm
by jipe
Makris D. G. wrote:It is technically possible to run a compressed air pistol on CO2, but that would probably be bad for the seals and might cause rusting in the regulator.
Here, it seems to be a CO2 LP1 (black cylinders) used with compressed air, not the opposite.