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Mr.Shenanagins
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I would shut the gass off immediately! It sounds like your regulator failed and it rapidly released the co2 from the cylinder through the safety valve (if you have one). The pressure should not read that high,
Ive put the co2 bottle outside when it happened, I don't think it's my regulator Co2art that failed, more the bottle was overfilled
Jeeze. I think that you may have had a lucky escape there. Pressurised gases escaping rapidly in an uncontrolled manner lead to bad outcomes. I would certainly not be risking reusing any of the components of your CO2 system until you are absolutely 100% certain of what happened and can take steps to ensure it doesn’t repeat itself. I buy refilled fire extinguishers from a specialist fire protection company. Last time I went to collect a couple, they had a whole new procedure in place, and had zip ties on the handle pins etc. This was because within the industry someone had been killed when an extinguisher accidentally activated within a vehicle, effectively creating a heavy metal rocket. Not wanting to be negative, just don’t want you or anyone else getting hurt. Good luck.
Andy Pierce
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Is it possible to overfill a CO2 bottle? I thought these were mixed liquid/gas contents where so long as there was any liquid at all the pressure is always in the range of 860 PSI (depending on temperature). I suspect something was physically damaged in the setup somewhere. I'm with @Tim1343 in that I wouldn't trust components of the CO2 system until fully tested and I would definitely not attempt to reuse the fire extinguisher. One possibility is if liquid CO2 were to come out of the extinguisher instead of CO2 gas (for example because the extinguisher was laying on its side or upside down or similar) you could imagine that would be highly destructive - I suppose if they extinguisher had been filled completely with liquid with no headspace at all that could have happened.
