You are not working with facts. You are working with pieces of paper.


I bought two tanks last year or two, and one was manufactured by a company
now out of business for twenty years. The tank had 800# pressure in it. It
was out of hydro.

I took it to one place, and they told me to unload it on to their dock, that
they were confiscating it, thank you very much. I said, not as long as it
was in back of my truck they weren't. I asked the man what they would do.
He said they would take the tank and give me nothing. He said they would
not trade it for another tank, or make one dollar worth of adjustment in the
price.

I went it to place two. The guy said, yeah, they still see them every once
in a while, and they are considered a find that is worth $150 that can be
had for free if they can get it from you. They told me to take it home, and
grind all the rust and grunge and letters off around the collar, and bring
it back, and for $12 for hydro and the price of the fill, they would swap it
for another.

I told him that I had used it for cutting, and that I did believe that it
was oxygen. He gave me an OXYGEN sticker he said to slap on the bottle. He
said he was only doing it because it had 800# pressure in it. He said if it
came into the loading dock without a sticker, and with no pressure, it would
be treated as an unknown quantity, and would have to be tested, purged, and
possibly the tank would have to be rolled.

I asked him why he would do this, and the other company wouldn't. He said,
"I can't answer that, you will have to." Well, for me, it is a decent
enough solution. I was not grinding off the letters on a company that was
currently in business and that I knew owned the bottle. When the lease goes
out on one bottle I currently have with that company, I am going to return
it with a letter to corporate explaining why I will not be doing ANY
business with them. I had done nearly $5,000 worth of business with them
the year of this incident.

I think those little stickers (pieces of paper with glue on one side) are
also available in MEDICAL OXYGEN and would not be hard to locate and
reliable cylinders.

Look! It's official. It has a piece of paper on it. It HAS to be MEDICAL
OXYGEN.

Unless one has the really spendy test equipment, you don't know what you
have. Oxygen to me would tend to be more likely to be pure, as mixing
contaminants would produce an explosive situation, and I really don't think
that most people would take the chance.

I'm still interested in seeing the answer to Ed's question on what test
equipment that guy uses to make sure they have medical oxygen. Maybe they
just look at that paper sticker for quality control.

Steve

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