On 2015-03-14, Howard Beal wrote:

"Ignoramus24975" wrote in message
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The minute you exchange your "owner" cylinder for a gas company
cylinder, you no longer have the owner cylinder. It is a very
unfortunate mess.

I use a lot of oxygen and acetylene (about 5 tanks of oxy and one tank
of acetylene per month). I found a welding gas supplier who is
inexpensive and quite liberal about what cylinders they exchange. I
acquired a lot of tanks at closed down plants and such, they exchanged
them all for Airgas cylinders and they now supply all my welding
gases. I actually have too many tanks and need to sell some.

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Airgas has been my supplier for over 25 years, never had a problem.
When i moved from chicago to las vegas i took my cylinders with me
and have never been refused a refill. I would be very cautious buying
cylinders from an individual, i see a lot of people trying to sell realy old
(linde,airco,etc) for what you can buy a cylinder from airgas or praxair.


My supplier is an airgas dealer, not airgas direct, he takes just
about any cylinder except for Terrace supply etc