| First thing to do is check the specs on your paticular tank and make sure the threads are the same as the SmartValve, chances are they are. Next thing to do is to make absolutely sure your tank is empty. Keep pumping the valve untill you are damned sure it is empty. Have a beer. |
| Go find the biggest wrench you can that is gonna fit properly and get ready to strain your guts out like a constipated grabass. This is the only step, besides repressurizing the tank, that is potentialy lethal. You will soon find out if all the CO2 has left your tank. Have a beer. |
| When you do get it off, your gonna notice all this crystalline shit, thats the old thread lock, clean it up good. Also keep anything from falling into your tank, or else it will get blown through your gun. That would suck. Have a beer while brushing this shit out. |
| Check out the bottom of the valve, some have a removeable plug threaded into them, it serves no purpose, but if you remove this plug with a 3/8 hex key, you can fit an anti-syphon tube on your old valve if you ever need to use it again. I have no idea why these plugs are put in there. You may want to get beer by this point. |
| This is the new valve, already anti-syphon ready, this is how your old valve will look if you remove the plug. |
| Just a photo of the new valve being utterly dominant, just like the player installing it, perhaps even reflecting a little of my "hang" on its shiny brass surface.... |
| I near puked when a person, whose name I shall only refer to as "grabass", from the paintball store told me he/it sells anti-syphon attachments for $15.00! Go to Canadian Tire, buy some 12gr co2 and some BE paint for your ever hungry Talons, but this time stop into the automotive section and get a: pipe size 1/8, tube size 1/4, compression connector, a foot of 1/4 inch copper pipe, and a small tube of thread lock. Your gonna need the thread lock anyways, and itll only cost you about $2.00 for the same anti-syphon attachment the "grabass" wanted $15.00 for. Its an easy concept to throw this together, I will save you the explanation, just dont forget thread lock every step of the way. Have a beer. |
| Getting to this point is pretty self explanitory. Just dont forget to dig out that thread lock and coat everything that is to be threaded. Give her hell and your all finished and ready for a beer. |
| Torque your guts twice as hard putting this sucker on, a big assed wrench, a rubber pad, a vice attached to a concrete wall, and a good quick dozen jerks that bruise your palms should suffice. Use lots of thread lock and make sure you dont forget the rubber gasket. Allow 24 hours with the valve open for the thread lock to set and cure. |
