Air jacket CO2 canister prices

!!!!!!!!! FOUND THEM !!!!!!!!!!


The CO2 cannisters are made by the Nippon Tansan gas factory in Japan, certificate number LS-6013-ew-Cn3L-45 is printed in the Point 2 pdf available online.

Anyone with a company which already has product liability insurance fancy doing a bulk order and selling them in the UK for a tenner each?? I'd do it myself but I'd need to set up insurance from scratch and that would be too much of a pain I think.

I've requested a quote for 1,000 and we'll see what price it comes back at.
 
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cptrayes said:
!!!!!!!!! FOUND THEM !!!!!!!!!!


The CO2 cannisters are made by the Nippon Tansan gas factory in Japan, certificate number LS-6013-ew-Cn3L-45 is printed in the Point 2 pdf available online.

Anyone with a company which already has product liability insurance fancy doing a bulk order and selling them in the UK for a tenner each?? I'd do it myself but I'd need to set up insurance from scratch and that would be too much of a pain I think.

I've requested a quote for 1,000 and we'll see what price it comes back at.
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VERY VERY VERY WELL DONE! It looks like we have some results at last! I am over the moon that something can be done about thisFINALLY!

Again, very well done :)
 
cptrayes said:
The rider jackets happen to have been set at 35 kilos, I think (it certainly isn't 6 stone and I have no idea where anyone got that figure from).
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i was trained in fitting the jackets by a rep from point 2, who told us that the pressure needed to inflate on an adult jacket was 6 stone, and on the childs jacket 4 stone. this is where i would have got that figure from :D
 
well 35 kilos is 5.5 stone so not far off plus I imagine they would like a little lee-way to protect themselves, hence the recommendation of 6 stone to sellers.
 
From my shcooldays :D -

Two and a quarter pounds of jam
Weigh about a kilogram

35 kilos is just under 79lbs, less than 4 stone.

:D
 
rhino said:
No it isn't, is't just over 5 1/2 stone... And the P2 stockists were all told to say 6 stone as they realised some people would have trouble with the conversion :)
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Oh yeah :D Where ON EARTH did I get 20 lbs to a stone from, I have scales I stand on every week for goodness sake!

Old-timers disease, sorry :p
 
I don't think so, tyre inflation ones are the ones with too thick a seal. I cna't find a 45g one in their list either, they are all smaller?

Sorry :(
 
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I have followed this thread with interest and have read each comment that has been made. I bought one of these jackets for my daughter last week following a nasty heavy fall xc schooling. The fall wasn't expected and not sure that the Point 2 would have helped but with a few cm's either way it could have done. I will pay the full price to Point 2 quite happily and without thought. Having paid just over £400 for the the jacket a mere £17.50 each time it is set off whether it be by accident or more importantly when she falls I feel personally feel it is worth every penny if it saves her from nasty injuries that could and in my personal judgement as a A&E nurse would save her from at least awful soft tissue injuries let alone spinal injuries.

She rode in the jacket last week at Twesledown and thank god it wasn't needed but dont think I would cope if her safety was compromised by a cannister not sold with the jacket. You can keep your £3 ones I for one will happily pay the the cost of a Point 2 cannister that is recommended by them for their jacket otherwise why would I trust their judgement in the jacket itself.
 
What would you do if you could buy one made by the company who point 2 buy them off, absolutely identical except for the label, for half the price?
 
cptrayes said:
!!!!!!!!! FOUND THEM !!!!!!!!!!


The CO2 cannisters are made by the Nippon Tansan gas factory in Japan, certificate number LS-6013-ew-Cn3L-45 is printed in the Point 2 pdf available online.

Anyone with a company which already has product liability insurance fancy doing a bulk order and selling them in the UK for a tenner each?? I'd do it myself but I'd need to set up insurance from scratch and that would be too much of a pain I think.

I've requested a quote for 1,000 and we'll see what price it comes back at.
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@cptrayes, did you ever get that quote in? Are they the ones specified as:

60ml 45.0grams Φ30.0 (body diameter) 138.0 (body length) 5/8-18UNF (thread)

Just curious if anything ever came out of this. I fall of a lot... (and love my airjacket! The cost of the bloody cannisters have taught me to hang on for dear life, so I am getting slightly better at clinging ;) )
 
cptrayes said:
What would you do if you could buy one made by the company who point 2 buy them off, absolutely identical except for the label, for half the price?
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My way of thinking too. When I bought my first hit air, back in 2003/4 (and everyone laughed) the cannisters were £8. I know things have gone up but not by that much.

The original hit ones were fatter, shorter and heavier. I wonder if the factory make the hit air ones too? They're Japanese after all...
 
twoshots said:
@cptrayes, did you ever get that quote in? Are they the ones specified as:

60ml 45.0grams Φ30.0 (body diameter) 138.0 (body length) 5/8-18UNF (thread)

Just curious if anything ever came out of this. I fall of a lot... (and love my airjacket! The cost of the bloody cannisters have taught me to hang on for dear life, so I am getting slightly better at clinging ;) )
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Me too, but I hurt my finger in my efforts to fall on my feet as I unclipped. I was very smug at the time that I hadn't set off my last cannister, but now I have a lumpy finger, should've just let go!
 
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