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#1 matt6150

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Posted 10 June 2015 - 06:00 PM

So my wife brings this home one day last week. She works for a nonprofit organization that has a free medical clinic and people donate things. Well I guess they had no use for this tank so I got it. Has a regulator and looks brand new. No more using the small red oxygen tanks to aerate. Now to just get it filled.Posted Image

#2 Big Nake

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Posted 10 June 2015 - 06:14 PM

Dude. Go Diving! :DNice score.

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Posted 10 June 2015 - 06:18 PM

Speaking of diving, I called a few places to see where I could get it filled. The place I get my co2 filled said they fill diving tanks but they wouldn't fill this. Not sure what the difference is, oh well.

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Posted 10 June 2015 - 06:23 PM

The place I get my co2 filled said they fill diving tanks but they wouldn't fill this. Not sure what the difference is, oh well.

Liability? Is that tank threaded backwards like the red bottles?



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Posted 10 June 2015 - 06:46 PM

Liability? Is that tank threaded backwards like the red bottles?

No completely different threads.

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Posted 10 June 2015 - 07:25 PM

Nice score but you may need a prescription to get it filled.

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Posted 10 June 2015 - 07:44 PM

Nice score but you may need a prescription to get it filled.

yup

 

maybe you can swap it at a gas outlet for a welding 02 tank?


Edited by miccullen, 10 June 2015 - 07:45 PM.


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Posted 10 June 2015 - 08:56 PM

Nice score but you may need a prescription to get it filled.

This.

 

I picked one up a few years ago at the thrift store.  It had 1500psi in it.  I'm down to 1000, but know that I would need a perscription to get it filled.  (or if you can get a connecton with a medical O2 company)  The real problem may be that the tank also needs to be hydro-ed.



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Posted 11 June 2015 - 03:45 AM

find a local welding place - they might work with you.



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Posted 11 June 2015 - 05:01 AM

find a local welding place - they might work with you.

I do not think they will.  Just from some personal experience I have had.  Most of the times they will not risk it and a prescription will be required.



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Posted 11 June 2015 - 05:04 AM

I do not think they will.  Just from some personal experience I have had.  Most of the times they will not risk it and a prescription will be required.

 

good thing I didn't buy one of these.  I had heard this but I wasn't sure if it was true.

perhaps after you use up the O2 you could do an exchange with the clinic?



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Posted 11 June 2015 - 05:07 AM

I have been using something like this It was a spare my dad had so it worked out well.


Edited by drez77, 11 June 2015 - 05:08 AM.


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Posted 11 June 2015 - 05:54 AM

If it was free, it might be worth painting green. A welding place may fill it if it's obvious that it won't be used for breathing.

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Posted 11 June 2015 - 06:15 AM

If it was free, it might be worth painting green. A welding place may fill it if it's obvious that it won't be used for breathing.

Now that I look at the picture in the OP again you may be right.  It has a normal looking valve on it not the pin type you see in the smaller ones.

 

httpss://www.medline.com/media/catalog/CA05/CA05_07/CA05_07_09/PF01787/HCS2CON1L_D00103_HRE_1.JPG


Edited by drez77, 11 June 2015 - 06:15 AM.


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Posted 11 June 2015 - 06:20 AM

I'd at least suck it dry for hangovers or just to invigorate :)I do that with my Nitrox mixed scuba tanks....

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Posted 11 June 2015 - 07:09 AM

Made a few more calls and found a place that exchanges. I'm assuming welding oxygen will be fine for this application? What am I thinking, thats what I use now in the red tanks. I think I will just paint it and remove any signs that it is a medical tank.

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Posted 11 June 2015 - 07:23 AM

It will be fine but I would still put a filter inline.one of these guyshttps://www.morebeer...ary-filter.html

Edited by ChicagoWaterGuy, 11 June 2015 - 07:25 AM.


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Posted 11 June 2015 - 07:33 AM

It will be fine but I would still put a filter inline.one of these guyshttps://www.morebeer...ary-filter.html

 

I don't think it's necessary. Even the welding gas has to be really clean. 



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Posted 11 June 2015 - 07:40 AM

I have one on my medical grade tank. Probably not needed but it's a nice separation point. The tubing from the filter to the stone gets cleaned and sanitized. The tubing from the regulator to the filter never comes off.

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Posted 11 June 2015 - 08:37 AM

Now that I look at the picture in the OP again you may be right.  It has a normal looking valve on it not the pin type you see in the smaller ones.

 

httpss://www.medline.com/media/catalog/CA05/CA05_07/CA05_07_09/PF01787/HCS2CON1L_D00103_HRE_1.JPG

 

yeah - his regulator looks just like mine (except mine is green instead of reddish).




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