The latest product to come from the mastermind Danny Love. The new Shocktech
Flight Plan. Few things can be more frustrating than traveling with your HP
air system. Now a day’s anything can happen, from some TSA agent coming
unglued thinking you’re a smaller, white Osama bin something or other, to the
baggage handlers tossing your gear bag like it was an Olympic event.
Sometimes even driving can have its challenges.
So we’re going to roll out the Flight Plan….a multi functional tool that will
help keep your regulator and all its components intact, stowed away safely in
their individual compartments. At the same time it will give you a helping
hand taking the regulator off without smashing it back to its primary elements
in your buddy’s axle pulling vise. Not meant to break loose factory installed
loctite but, once you’ve done that, the Flight Plan will give you help
putting your regulator back on way more than hand tight, which will go a long
way to keeping our teammate’s head round…ish.
THE TOOL FEATURES:
A box wrench meant to fit your gauge
Socket for your burst disks
Regulator wrench that seats against your fill nipple
Two threaded storage holes for bursts disks
The gauge wrench also doubles as a storage compartment
This is a first generation Flight Plan and was designed to be used on Pure
Energy regulators that have the smaller rupture disks. If you have a regulator
with the larger ones you can send the Flight Plan in to us and we’ll swap it
out for free.
Pure Energy regulator bonnets are generally secured into place by two small
set screws. These are tightened down and loctited into place. They must not
protrude out of the bonnet or the Flight Plan will not fit over the regulator
base. If the screws do stick out you may be able to tighten them into place
if not you may need shorter ones. DO NOT remove them and use the tank without
them.
The flight plan was designed to facilitate the removal and reinstallation of
your regulator, gauges and rupture disks.
Always make sure your tank is completely drained prior to attempting the
removal of the regulator or any component.
Once you are sure the tank is completely drained loosen the high pressure
rupture disk first. If you hear any gas escape stop and double check the
tank, it must be completely empty before proceeding.
The Flight Plan was not intended to be used to break loose your regulators
factory installation. Most companies use a bonding agent such as loctite to
secure this union. This should only be performed by a qualified air
technician, and only to allow you the ability to take your N2 system through
security and get on a plane.
While a regulator does not necessarily need to be loctited to be safe you must
pay attention to how you use it. The Flight Plan will allow you to tighten
your regulator down way beyond hand tight but not as securely as a loctited
regulator.
Do not over tighten your rupture disk upon reinstallation. You should not
need more than three fingers on the tool to perform this operation.
You also do not want to over tighten your gauge. A drop or two of a light
duty thread sealant will prevent it from leaking. ìCrushingî it into place
will only lead to premature failure.
Available Colors: Green, Pewter, Silver, Black, Red, Blue
MSRP: $32.99