Nitrous bottle valve replacement
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Nitrous bottle valve replacement
I have a valve assembly I want to swap with the one on my nitrous bottle. They shipped the kit with the wrong one and I've been sitting on the replacement, it's time to swap them out.
I don't think I have the tools to hold the bottle thing while breaking loose and spinning off the valve, then there's the reversetightening issue.
Does anyone know how to do a valve assembly swap or know what I can search for to find someone that does this?
I don't think I have the tools to hold the bottle thing while breaking loose and spinning off the valve, then there's the reversetightening issue.
Does anyone know how to do a valve assembly swap or know what I can search for to find someone that does this?
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RE: Nitrous bottle valve replacement
Doh... Fantasticidea Marty, it's good to have you around to bounce ideas off of! You know me,I envisioned myself wrestling this thing in the garage all day 
andit's just to damn hot for that!
I do just that, call the shops around here that fill bottles and see if they can help me out.
andit's just to damn hot for that!I do just that, call the shops around here that fill bottles and see if they can help me out.
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RE: Nitrous bottle valve replacement
Someone told me to leave the bottle in the brackets and use it as a vice. That worked great. I flipped it upside down for better access to the head and was able to break loose the valve using a 20" crescent without any issues.
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Yes, it's a very versatile tool
Left over from the days when I worked onseismographic trucks, one of the smaller tools
Left over from the days when I worked onseismographic trucks, one of the smaller tools
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RE: Nitrous bottle valve replacement
I found a picture of one model I used to work on. It's a Mertz Incmodel 18 seizmographic "vibroseis" truck.
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I started right out of high school and worked there for 5 years.
It was very interesting; the company built them from raw materials. They had a Machine shop, welding shop, paint shop and the assembly shop. I worked in assembly. We tested them across the road from the shops, at times an o-ring would blow and 50 gallons of dexron would dump before it could be shut down Used a vat of liquid nitrogen to shrink large brass bushing so they would skip into place... all sorts of fun stuff.
In the middle of that machine is a 4 ton actuator that moved up and down so fast the eye couldn't see it move. That's what shook when it lifted up on the pad underneath.
Had all sorts of fun telling chicks I made vibrators
It was very interesting; the company built them from raw materials. They had a Machine shop, welding shop, paint shop and the assembly shop. I worked in assembly. We tested them across the road from the shops, at times an o-ring would blow and 50 gallons of dexron would dump before it could be shut down
Used a vat of liquid nitrogen to shrink large brass bushing so they would skip into place... all sorts of fun stuff.In the middle of that machine is a 4 ton actuator that moved up and down so fast the eye couldn't see it move. That's what shook when it lifted up on the pad underneath.
Had all sorts of fun telling chicks I made vibrators