Best paintball fill stations according to redditors

We found 17 Reddit comments discussing the best paintball fill stations. We ranked the 7 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.

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Top Reddit comments about Paintball Fill Stations:

u/ManualNarwhal · 5 pointsr/paintball

First, most guns operate around 90 psi. 10-20 psi is ridiculously small.

There is a trade off that you have to confront.

CO2 holds WAAAAY more energy than compressed air ever will. If size is your main concern, CO2 would be the way to go. The reason, as you know, is because CO2 goes through a phase change and there's a lot of energy in that step.

Yes, there are 2 or 3 oz co2 bottles. You're going to want to ask on mcarterbrown.com where ot get them. They are specialty made in limited runs for people who play pump paintball. I think they go for 40 bux. The same customers also buy very small compressed air tanks.

Now then, CO2 has a lot more energy stored, but god damn is it dirty. First, you need to make sure it expands. That expansion uses up a lot of heat. If you are continuously running the bottle, it is entirely possible that everything will freeze up. BUT, if it's only 10-20 psi, that may just be a small enough flow to where ambient temperature will work. However, with a constant flow I would bet that your device would freeze up on CO2 Either way, you will probably want to buy an old school "expansion chamber."

https://www.amazon.com/Kingman-Paintball-Expansion-Bottomline-conversion/dp/B00APL4KPK/ref=zg_bs_3488731_1

That's a really crappy one. Try to buy a used one (pbnation.com or mcarterbrown.com) that has multiple chambers and FINS. The one with the fins is really great. (20 bux).

Compressed air in a small tank may struggle to provide you with enough energy to run for 1 hour. A larger tank, like a 45 cubic inch/4500 psi (called a 45/45) would definitely last you.

Either way, you will need at least two regulators. All tanks, whether CO2 or HPA, expel air out of them at 800 psi (standard) or 400 psi (low pressure HPA tanks only). So you will need to regulate the pressure down from 800 down to 100 using a high pressure regulator. If you are using CO2, (Or even if not) one of the best most consistent regulators is a Palmer's male stabilizer.

https://palmers-pursuit-shop.myshopify.com/collections/stabilizers

90 dollars.

You want to put this 100 psi air into some sort of dump chamber, roughly the size of your thumb or larger. I highly recommend using macroline and macroline fittings in order to make these connections.

http://www.oringmonkey.com/macroline-fittings-c-210.html

The straight one here is 8 dollars. It's a premium, higher costed macroline fitting. Most go for 4-5. But o ring monkey is good people and I always order from there. Pick up some 010 o rings to fix any leaks you may get in your macroline fitting later (which will definitely occur with CO2). The macroline connectors fit into 1/8 NPT threads, which is easy enough to drill and tap.

https://www.amazon.com/Vermont-American-20371-Carbon-Steel/dp/B000K1LZ76

Then feed that into a low pressure regulator. Now these are getting rarer as most guns have ditched them. Anyways, once again Palmers is going to be your best bet for CO2, and they're one of the best regs there is, hands down. I cannot say for certain that such a regulator will get down to 10 psi and work properly. This is outside the range of almost every paintball gun there is. You definitely are going to have to "Ask the Experts" over at mcarterbrown.com

Most Low Pressure Regulators (LPR) output the air through microline which is different from macroline. You want SOFT microline for the fittings. The only source of soft microline that I have ever been able to locate is from a guy on mcarterbrown.com . His handle is "maggot" and you are looking for his "autococker hose kit." 12 bux

http://www.mcarterbrown.com/forums/dealers-forum/255801-slps-kit-cocker-parts-macroline-halfblock-delrin-grips-benchmark-sliders.html#post2949265

As far as refilling, CO2 is very easy to refill from a larger bottle wit a CO2 fill station

https://www.amazon.com/Ninja-Paintball-Mini-Fill-Station/dp/B0023U7RH4

As far as refilling HPA, it is really easy to do so from a scuba fill station.

https://www.amazon.com/Ninja-Paintball-SCUBA-Fill-Station/dp/B001T6I1K0

Of course, be warned. DO NOT EVER PUT OIL INTO A HPA TANK AS IT CAN AND WILL EXPLODE That's really the only thing you'd have to worry about with filling.

u/mobomelter · 4 pointsr/paintball

Step 1. Cut a hole in the box

Step 1. Buy this.

Step 2. Buy This

You're not going to find a "cheap" air compressor that can do 3000psi. Period. The cheapest method you can go is the one listed above. You can fill that scuba tank for between 5-10 dollars at a scuba store.

u/kast1k · 4 pointsr/TheBrewery

Like this:
https://www.amazon.com/Ninja-Paintball-Mini-Fill-Station/dp/B0023U7RH4

Basically what we did was establish the tare weight of empty tank and add that to the rated tank capacity (3.5lb rated cap + 22oz shell weight= 4lb 14oz). Dump co2 from the tank to cool it, then fill to the gross weight.

u/Captain_McShootyFace · 2 pointsr/paintball

Here is the fill station

It hooks up to any standard scuba tank. You can ask the local scuba shops about used tanks, or even look on craigslist for them to try to save money.

Here is a pre-packaged set up that has everything you would need, but it's a little bit more expensive than buying a used tank.


u/CoinIsMyDrug · 2 pointsr/airguns

Thank you for the advice. I actually did return the tank last night. Great thing about Amazon: hassle free return, even at 2AM. In anycase, look like I need to ponny up the cash to get a more expensive unit. Can you give me some recommendations? I was looking at this: Benjamin 90 cu Carbon Fiber PCP Charging System, but it's so expensive. Same with this one.

u/Fenwick23 · 2 pointsr/Homebrewing

Ja, it's super easy. First you need a fill adapter like this. I throw the 20oz tank in the freezer for an hour first. Then I attach it to the fill adapter, set it on my grain scale, and tare the weight. Open main valve on 15lb tank, then gently open the ball valve to let the CO2 flow. Weight shoots up to 14oz pretty fast, then slows down from there. It'll probably reach equilibrium around 16-17oz. Then close the 15lb tank valves, unscrew the pin valve knob on the 20oz fill attachment to seal the 20oz tank, open the purge valve to empty the lines, unscrew the 20oz tank, and you're done.

The hardest part is building a rack/mount of some sort to hold the big tank upside down if you don't have a siphon tube.

u/uradonkey003 · 1 pointr/paintball

Scuba tank with an adaptor or a, stirrup pump AMazon

u/SOLITUDEbwk · 1 pointr/paintball

You need two things. I purchased a scuba tank to fill mine at home, etc. But if you need to fill a single tank they'll need these:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B003JONEI4/ref=cm_sw_r_udp_awd_26Gqtb1CHFC66

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001T6I1K0/ref=cm_sw_r_udp_awd_O8Gqtb1WBWPST

I'd be really surprised if your local shop didn't already have a DIN adapter (it's needed to fill scuba tanks from their compressor).

u/datguyfromoverdere · 1 pointr/airsoft

https://www.amazon.com/WaveToGo-Paintball-Adapter-Scuba-Station/dp/B00GB1GXYY

One of these on the scuba tank, use a remote line to plug the fill station into any HPA paintball style tank, then put your normal polar star regulator on that and hook it upto the gun.

The scuba tank constantly refills the normal hpa tank, the hpa tank constantly feeds the gun.

u/LittleHelperRobot · 1 pointr/Homebrewing

Non-mobile: like this

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u/ODXBeef · 1 pointr/paintball

https://www.amazon.com/Ninja-Paintball-SCUBA-Fill-Station/dp/B001T6I1K0 <- One of those and some people have dive shops closer than their local field and/or find out where the fire department fills their scba bottles.

u/Speedly · 1 pointr/airguns

Yes, but holy shit, why would you pay so much for that?

You'll need a fill station. This is the one I got for mine, and it works just fine for what I need it for.

Max pressure for that is 3000 PSI though, so if you upgrade to a 3342 tank, you shouldn't use it with that tank.

A fill whip is also a good idea. This is the one I have. It will connect directly with the QD fitting on the end of the Marauder.

With those you get a complete fill station and a longer fill hose at about half the cost of the Benjamin SCUBA adapter.

Good luck, have fun, be safe!

u/k4ylr · 1 pointr/paintball

You just need a scuba fill station. Something like this.

They mount to the bottle and allow you connect your tank to fill of the bottle.

A true bonafide, field-grade compressor is going to run you north of $3,000 unless you're looking at the little 110v PCP chinesium made ones. Those are a crapshoot and not worth the dice roll IMHO