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Originally Posted by paintbug
the reason is because if you take a half full tank at ground level its at say 1500psi, if you put in the baggage compartment of a plane, which is not pressurized, as the plane climbs in altitude the air in the tank will expand to a point where the burst disk will blow at minimum. there is a good chance that the tank will explode if the disk malfunctions or if someone placed the wrong disk onto the reg. i guess the TSA is thinking its better safe than sorry.
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Urban myth # 4,341: A paintball tank, with no gas compressed inside, will somehow "blow up" if taken up in an airplane.
Total crap, unless the tank is bad/malfunctioning anyway. If a tank can withstand being hydrotested without exploding in a massive boomitty boom, then it's not going to somehow pressurize itself from +/- 0 p.s.i. to the pressure that would make it explode.
Even a tank that's "half full" wouldn't come close to exploding, but it would be (in the minds of airlines) safer to empty the tank completely first.
Also, if you used an old drop, or had a tank with an on/off, you could just make sure the valve was open.
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