Nitrous question.

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Discussion starter · #1 · Jul 7, 2003

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Does nitrous ever go bad if it stays in the bottle too long? My friend had a bottle in his garage for a year and it's full.

Does the gas go bad sitting in the bottle for too long.

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Erik

 

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#2 · Jul 7, 2003

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I don't think so. Dinitrogen monoxide is stable in a closed system as far as I know. I am a chemistry dude. It should be fine.

 

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#3 · Jul 7, 2003

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I always wanted to know the answer to that question to.

 

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#4 · Jul 7, 2003

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yea ......... it should never go bad .... i guess, if say u live in like AZ and the car heats up to like 200 plus dgrees in the car it could breaka seal in the car and vent it out but that is all i ever see happening..... now gas that is a different story and one ihave learned the hard way about 3 years ago lol

 

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Thanks guys

 

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#6 · Jul 7, 2003

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Awesome. Thanks guys.

 

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#7 · Jul 8, 2003

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Can you mount the bottle straight up and down??

 

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#8 · Jul 8, 2003

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You can mount a nitrous bottle in any position, as long as the top of the bottle (with the valve on it) is higher than the bottom of the bottle. That's why the bottle mounts nitrous companies sell are angled.

So yeah, straight up and down is fine.

 

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#9 · Jul 9, 2003

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I have seen some racers that run the bottle mounted upsidedown on the rollcage. I asked a guy about it and he said you can remove the pick up tube and do that, but I haven't tried it.

 

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I think you're talking about an anti-siphon tube, it prevents liquid from getting out, much like paintballers do with CO2 tankes, the tube is pointed away from gravity and the liquid can't get in it. But I don't know much about nitrous, I'm sure if it cooled enough it'd go liquid, but you'll have to ask the Chem guys.

 

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#11 · Jul 9, 2003

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It's actually the other way around with nitrous... it's supposed to be liquid when it leaves the tank. The pickup tube is used to get liquid nitrous from the bottom of the bottle instead of gaseous nitrous from the top. So it gets pointed towards gravity.