Fireship1 how do you remove the safety cap?

In canada you cannot own larger than 80cu ft

I don't either...I have to drive futher...but it's also about 1/2 price from air gas...and I don't have to pay rent.

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I'm searching for a good deal on an argon gas cylinder for my tig welder, but the prices these people here are trying to charge is utterly ridiculous😞

@@Mrdubomb well that is horrible

Strickland is where i go for all my propane needs and propane accessories,,mr Strickland sure treats me nice

i use Compressed Gas Supply(a Praxair company) here in oklahoma, they practically bend over backwards to work with me

@@ARCSTREAMS propane and propane accessories

@@Hyundairobitdog yesssir :)

This guy full of crap I have been in welding business for 50 plus years I own over 45 bottles, I have bought bottles for years it doesn't make a difference how big they are and they belong to me. The company that I have been working with to fill my bottles went broke or sold out, now all these other so-called companies will not fill my bottles, they want to trade my bottles for their bottles they can go jump in the lake, I have too much money invested in new valve and nice paint jobs on my bottles I'm not giving up my bottles for rent. I do not lease the bottles to anyone I use them for my own use. All these welding supply companies think they own everything that way they can put the screws to you and charge you all they can. In Texas by law they cannot charge you rent on the bottles unless you sign an agreement on a pick-up day and a return date. When you buy the gas in a bottle it is yours until the bottle is empty. The only way they could charge you rent if they are a rental company.

@@sherwinstaudt1881that sucks. Can't you just replace the neck rings and show proof of ownership?

​@@jordananders8525I've been in a welding business a machine business and supply business since 1976. It is not a question of ownership of my bottles, all my bottles has customer-owned on them, 75/25 mix, pure Argan, oxygen, acetylene, CO2, nitrous oxide, the problem is the companies that I went to said it was too much trouble for them to fill my bottles and return them to me, so they wanted me to give them my bottles and then they would not charge me rent on their bottles and they would keep me supplied or what I need. Back in 76 we did that with a company gave them around 12 bottles 3 years later they start charging me rent but did not replace my bottles a bunch of Thieves. So shame on me once not twice. So now I have no alternative but to drive 300 miles one way to have my bottles filled. The reason for that is nobody around here will fill acetylene. All these be high-tech companies want to cut the little man out like me, just like Walmart has done the mama pop stores.

@@sherwinstaudt1881 huh. Here in utah we have Humphries that will do fill only and give you the bottle back. most other places will swap out for one with a blank neck ring if you own the bottle, and all slick necks are considered to be COCs unless the bottle itself has ownership markings. Lindie/praxair gives me slick necks if I ask. Every area is different but only doing business with places that give you slick necks might be your best bet. And for the bottles that might have been de facto stolen, small claims court maybe? Sounds like a fairly easy case.

REE means rejection elastic expansion is the retest operator if it's above that level it's means the cylinder will be bad when calculated after hydrotest.

Did you ever get it filled? I am in the same situation

Rent one slightly bigger and fill you’re original thank whit it and return it back the next day that way you only pay for the gas and you can fill up your thank and not pay rental fee. But you need to buy high pressure hose 2500 psi and have the right connection for the tank, bingo.

Thank you for clarifying. We too have some customers with a few that are customer owned from years ago, but it is not the norm...

I recently purchase 2 200 cubic foot tanks out in CA.

The military tanks are extra heavy wall and I would have used that to make a cannon 😂

They try to keep them? How long does it take for them to be filled? Do they just accuse you of stealing them or something?

@@dustjunky2000 they tell me the tanks are theirs. I don't know if they think they are going to charge me rent or what. It only takes a few minutes to fill them.

The SPUN is just a manufacturer info, Ctc 3A-2015 is the type of steel cylinder and max pressure it can be filled to, the PF 11541 is the bottle serial #, the 12(353) 06+* is the last date of test.12 [December] manufacture or tester RIN 353 and 06 is the yea of 2006. + means it can be filled 10% over bottle pressure and * means 10 bottle shelf life befor being needed to be retested from 12/2006, so dec of 2018 is the needed test to recertifications your bottle

thank you very much for the precise info and you are correct but what about the " 1{dash line with circle under it with vertical line in the center of circle}92"

i did re test it in dec and unfortunately did not get a star or a plus rating so it will need to be re tested in another 5 years :(

@@ARCSTREAMS that is the independent cylinder inspection symbol, its put on during manufacturing.

@@baudeagle1 ty

different company, different policies

@@brianhumphreys1660 that makes sense air gas around me said the same thing as well as browns welding supply

Tig welding

It's actually a metal alloy similar to solder, not sure exactly what it it though. This is precisely the reason if you've ever taken a welding class at a trade school or community college for instance, one of the things you're taught is to never use boiling water to thaw a frozen valve or free a cylinder frozen to the ground since you could either melt safety plug or soften it enough to leak, and some cylinders, particularly larger acetylene cylinders, have a safety plug at the bottom as well as the valve assembly.

That makes more sense with the alloy. Thanks.

it was last certified in august of 2015 and is capable of holding 10 percent over

By far I'm no pro but I feel like they're selling you short

could be ,but i recently went in to that shop again to refill my 55-60cf oxy cyl and those guys were not there but the guy told me that my tank says it can only be filled to 2015psi and if it allows for 10% over fill then i can get 2200psi but the tank was expired so i had to pay to get it recertified,only it did not pass for a 10% refill nor a 10 year star ,i only got 5 years certification and they only gave me around 2000psi ,,think i will try to cheat and stamp my own test hehe

@@ARCSTREAMS yeah blow up the guys at airgas filling your shitty tank. awesome idea.

if it means saving money not buying a 300 buck tank then its worth it

@@ARCSTREAMS lol

it could be done but a filler should be able to spot a fake stamp.

@@davidrimes582 not necessarily,,not like they got specially high school kids working there