On Fri, 08 Aug 2003 21:09:51 GMT, "John T. McCracken"
wrote:


I have a small variety of owner bottles, and being as I work all over the
country, I swap bottles in a lot of states and have commercial accounts at
some places and not at others.
I have never had one lick of problem swapping an owner bottle, no one has
ever looked at the stamp, no one has ever said I would have to wait while
they had my cyl. refilled, and I have never paid for a retest ( I know, the
price is integrated into the price of gas). I simply give them the empties,
they give me full ones, and ask what else I'll be needing. Granted, I
haven't worked much east of the Missippi for a long time but many of my
friends have and do, with the same results as mine. A lease is a money loser
for my little company. And in my opinion, it's a good way to tie you down to
99 years of refills at their store, no wonder they tell hobby types that
they can't buy that bottle.
Unscrupulous welding supplies blow a lot of smoke up the hobby welders
skirt.

JTMcC.



Ain't that the truth.

Every month my boss comes to me with an itemized invoice from our gas
supplier. It is about $20 per month per tank in rent.

And every month I tell my boss the business would come out ahead if it
bought the tanks, because the savings over the monthly lease price
would pay for a about a tank a month. (we have 15 tanks or so)

Dave