It's over 10 years since I bought mine. The company is long gone. They can
still be exchanged for the price of the refill.

Steve Rayner.


"John T. McCracken" wrote in message
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"keith bowers" wrote in message
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David A. Webb wrote:

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
It may be a tax thing. Lease can be expensed in the current year.
Purchase
may be capitalized andhave to be amortized over the life of the
equipment.
Depends on where the breakboint is for your company. Over the years I've
seen the crossover between $100 and $2000.
--
Keith Bowers - Thomasville, NC

No advantage for me, even at a cost savings. My cylinders may be swapped
at
Praxair in Arizona this week, at Airgas in Nevada next week and at a Mom &
Pop in a little town in Kansas the following week. Owner bottles are the
only way to go for me.
I'm not to sure that a bottle is amortized??? Maybe you understand this
better than I, but even so it could be a sec. 179 deduction I suppose.
This
is where the pro tax folks come in. I have never amortized a bottle, but I
may have been wrong up to now, I have survived audits however.

JTMcC.