Filling PowerTank in Utah

[flanders]

I've had a brand new PowerTank bundle sitting in my front room unopened. Jokes on me for not doing my homework, but I can't find anywhere that will fill it up with CO2 within an 1.5 hour drive (one way). Everyone says they only do exchanges, or ship your bottle out for a week.
Let alone all these places are only open til 5 on week days.

I feel stupid for buying it. It's awesome and I want to love it, but it seems like a stupid purchase now.

Does anyone have a PowerTank in northern Utah? Where the heck do you go to fill it?

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[GtX]

I use CO2 but just an industrial bottle from the gas supply store. Exchange when needed.

Try paintball stores.
Try fire extinguisher places that service fire extinguishers.

 

[Fonzilla85]

Have you used the powertank fill station locater? Might be a good start.

 

[flanders]

Have you used the powertank fill station locater? Might be a good start.

Map must be out of date. Only 1 of the green dots in SLC actual fill them.

 

[J.Ferreira]

Map must be out of date. Only 1 of the green dots in SLC actual fill them.

Are you in SLC? There's an AirGas in South Salt Lake that will fill gas bottles.
Also Praxair in SLC will do it.
If you aren't actually in SLC then just go to your nearest homebrew beer making supply store and talk to the people there, homebrewers always know where to get a CO2 fill.

 

[Black Bear]

I ran the same problem. Its a great product but I always have anxiety running trails wondering if I have enough CO2 and the roll bar mount rattles when I’m out on trails or on rough patches of road. I had my bottle filled at the Ford dealership in Moab. They weren’t able to fill it up completely on my last trip because of temperatures. Something to think about that no one mentions.

 

[Hoppy Toad]

I've had a brand new PowerTank bundle sitting in my front room unopened. Jokes on me for not doing my homework, but I can't find anywhere that will fill it up with CO2 within an 1.5 hour drive (one way). Everyone says they only do exchanges, or ship your bottle out for a week.
Let alone all these places are only open til 5 on week days.

I feel stupid for buying it. It's awesome and I want to love it, but it seems like a stupid purchase now.

Does anyone have a PowerTank in northern Utah? Where the heck do you go to fill it?

Powertank has a map of suppliers online.

 

[autotragic]

Are you in SLC? There's an AirGas in South Salt Lake that will fill gas bottles.
Also Praxair in SLC will do it.
If you aren't actually in SLC then just go to your nearest homebrew beer making supply store and talk to the people there, homebrewers always know where to get a CO2 fill.

The place local to me that fills them is a microbrewery. Reasonable prices too which is why I was looking into a power tank myself. However for the cost I could just as easily install actual onboard air so not sure it's really worth it. Years go when on board air and portable compressors were not as accessible I think power tanks made sense but I'm not sure that's the case today.

 

[J.Ferreira]

The place local to me that fills them is a microbrewery. Reasonable prices too which is why I was looking into a power tank myself. However for the cost I could just as easily install actual onboard air so not sure it's really worth it. Years go when on board air and portable compressors were not as accessible I think power tanks made sense but I'm not sure that's the case today.

I just have a portable compressor that powers off battery leads. I think it was like $150 for the whole kit. Currently on 33's, and I'm usually done before everyone else I'm with that is on bigger tires/on board air systems.
I'll stick with it till it's either no longer efficient for my needs, or craps out.

 

[autotragic]

I just have a portable compressor that powers off battery leads. I think it was like $150 for the whole kit. Currently on 33's, and I'm usually done before everyone else I'm with that is on bigger tires/on board air systems.
I'll stick with it till it's either no longer efficient for my needs, or craps out.

I think that's the one plus of a power tank, you can have all four tires aired back up in just a couple of minutes. Otherwise I think it has too many drawbacks. Once upon a time you would also use your power tank for your pneumatic impact if you needed to change the tire on the trail or something but now battery impacts have solved that problem too.

 

[Ratbert]

How much does it typically cost to fill? I hadn't considered that it might be challenging to find somewhere to fill it.

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