refilling 5lb co2 tanks?

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Hey all, does anyone know about refilling 5 lb CO2 tanks? Will paintball places refill them? I'm asking because i'll be using one in my airsoft machine gun, and would like to make sure they are easy to refill..

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I get mine refilled at the same place I purchased the tank at. Actually, this company takes my empty tank and gives me a full one.

The company is simply a local machining company. Paintball shops may be able to help, but I'm not sure with the bulk tanks.
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yea i dunno, how much does it cost you per tank?

I'm gonna call the paintball place down the street and see what they say
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ilovetoblowthingsup wrote:yea i dunno, how much does it cost you per tank?
Most places don't charge "per tank", but "per ounce" because of the different sizes of CO2 tanks. Around here, we have a place that charges only 16 cents per ounce to refill, but I get a discount because my uncle owns the place :D

But most of the time, they charge about 20-25 cents per ounce. How many ounces is your "5 lbs" tank?
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80 ounces.. that seems like it should only cost around 16 dollars if i am correct. It costs 4 bucks to fill my 20 ounce tanks at Fleet Farm, I bet they would fill a 5 lber for me what do you think STHORNE?
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Oh yeah, Fleet Farm will most definately fill that sucker up for you :wink:

Being a cheeze-head and all.....anything is possible in the land of cows :D
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haha cheese heads kick ass!!!
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I live in Wisconsin too so I would love to see if farm and fleet fills them up.
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I've got a 10lb tank which I purchased for my keg system and it cost me $11.00 to get it filled at OxArc and it lasts me quite a while, unless I'm using it to fill my pnuematics then it'll last me like a month.
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Davidvinai- you live in Wisconsin!?!?!?! Why didn't you say so!? What part of wisconsin?

David and STHORNE- do you know of any places that dispose of 5 lb CO2 tanks? I'd ideally like to get one for free instead of shelling out 50 bucks for a new one
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ilovetoblowthingsup wrote:Davidvinai- you live in Wisconsin!?!?!?! Why didn't you say so!? What part of wisconsin?

David and STHORNE- do you know of any places that dispose of 5 lb CO2 tanks? I'd ideally like to get one for free instead of shelling out 50 bucks for a new one
Eau Claire, unfortunately I do not know of any at the moment. but I did make a sweet discover... I went around to different bike shops, car tire replacement places and auto stores and asked for a bunch of shreader valves and they gave a bunch of them to me for free... I went to midas and asked for some and he came out with 30 of them in his hand.
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oh you're way up there, i live in germantown, north of milwaukee.

yea i dunno, i saw a subway once with a couple of them being used to hold a door open, maybe i'll go make some rounds of restaurants and find out
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