Gary White
Bluelighter
I suppose some of you just inflate balloons using the little plastic nozzle they include with a tank but if you are serious about this stuff you end up buying a regulator. Perhaps 20 tanks or so in you find they stop working. Unscrewing it and screwing it back in seems to get you a reprieve but it is temporary. I have been working on this a while, even using an old regulator as an adapter to a welding store grade regulator. I found I just transplanted the problem. It appears the small pipe in the base of the regulator that depressed the valve in the tank flattens out and seals against the button in the valve, stopping or reducing the flow A new regulator fixes this but I also found if you just drill a small hole in the brass bushing with the pipe (close to the pipe) it fixes the problem.Just be careful not to damage the surface the O ring seals against. The O rings are a maintenance part, that is why they give you a few.
