the main bottle that your are using to fill needs to be mounted above the filled bottle and also mounted upside down....
Thats...odd. For one I have never seen were you have to heat a bottle with a tourch to fill it. Normaly you freeze the smaller bottle and hook it up to the bigger one,GRAVITY FEED (cause nitrous in the bottle is liqued) into the smaller one on a scale,then shut off the valves when you get the right wiegth. Edit: Oh,and finding a good price on nitrous will be easy compared to race fuel,lol.
I totally agree. I have my own filling station and the bottle is located upside down. Also make sure the bottle you are filling up is very cold, it just makes it easier and faster to fill.
And to top it off,make sure its all very secure with safety chains aswell. One of thous big bottles falls over and cracks the valve off and you got a torpedo.
the only place that i know of, in my town, to get nitrous is at an adult book-store. ive never went in to check prices. i think the reason they sell it is for ppl. to get high on, because they also sell smoking tools. or so ive heard.
Are you talking about a pressure explosion or a combustion explosion... Because N2O isn't flammable Nitrous Oxide (N2O) is a colorless, nontoxic, nonflammable gas with a slightly sweet taste and odor, which can be used as an anesthetic agent. Nitrous Oxide is an oxidizing agent under normal conditions. Shipped as a liquefied gas under its own vapor pressure (745 psig @ 70 °F).
Most likely a pressure explosion,from a bad bottle/valve. Ill have to look,but I think the NHRA may require the bottle to be certified ever few years.They do this for oxygen tanks for tourch set-up's and stuff,I forget what exatly its called,but they test it by pressuring the bottle and measuring how much it expands,then they got a chart or somethig,and if it expands to much for a given pressure,the bottle needs scraped. Of course,not everyone will throw out a bad bottle,cause they think its still ok....
Yes it was pressure explosion, blew the dude to PIECES, whats weird feeling is I was at that place a week before getting a fender for my 68 Camaro. Freezing the bottle to be filled does make it go faster and you can generally get a pound or so extra into a bottle easier this way.
