Blue Steel 7/8 UNF (narrow neck) manifold problems with PST tanks

[Tracy]

I like it! Shame you had to go through it, but man that's a good feeling when it's done.

If I lived close to @Tracy I would have stolen a set of his 120's and left yours with the manifold in there spot... he would never know

I would definitely know as I don't have any 120s around here. I had 4 of them last month. They now live at Tim's house.

 

[runsongas]

@tmassey some of the genesis HP 3500 psi were spun tanks from asahi in japan

 

[acxc]

This is great! I was so excited to see someone selling left-handed 7/8 valves and the one I just bought has been sitting on a tank for 3 weeks with a half-drafted email to Piranha wondering if it was just my stupidity continuously blowing o-rings trying to fill or if there was something weird about the valve.

 

[lostsheep]

Not having a thread relief seems like a pretty big design miss; I have lathes and I don’t think I would go through that much hassle.

Must say, I’m impressed.

 

[rjack321]

Not having a thread relief seems like a pretty big design miss; I have lathes and I don’t think I would go through that much hassle.

Must say, I’m impressed.

Yeah agree it's like bluesteel didnt even try to fit the valve to an actual 7/8" UNF tank

 

[runsongas]

isn't blue steel the valve division of faber? I am not sure how you would even find a 7/8 unf tank in europe

 

[-JD-]

isn't blue steel the valve division of faber? I am not sure how you would even find a 7/8 unf tank in europe

No, but one might think the US distributor might try a sample on the most common tank that it would nominally be used in.

Has anybody heard back from Piranha?

I wonder if there was a batch with a missed production step.

 

[rx7diver]

... I wonder if there was a batch with a missed production step.

+1

 

[rjack321]

isn't blue steel the valve division of faber? I am not sure how you would even find a 7/8 unf tank in europe

I dunno buddy, Faber somehow manages to make tanks in 3/4" LMAO

Despite also being imperial, 7/8" UNF isn't some kind of mystical alchemy. And the sealing surfaces between 3/4" and 7/8" (and even M25) are otherwise the same relationship with the threads

 

[runsongas]

its the problem of double checking the valve fits and seals on the intended tank. if they just checked the 7/8 unf with a thread checker instead of on an actual tank because they didn't have them, they could have missed it doesn't actually seal correctly.