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Re: Oxy Acetylene Torches

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Subject: Re: Oxy Acetylene Torches
From: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 12:11:32 -0400
David Scheidt wrote:
> One other thing I should have mentioned in the previous post.  People 
> frequently ask about the expected life time of cylinders.  It's pretty 
> well close to infinite, barring physical damage from an outside source. 

   ...I remember a story, perhaps from somebody on this list, where a 
person had a pair of tanks from Nazi Germany that they still used. I 
recall that the swastika had been crudely "disguised" by adding more 
lines, but was still discernable and the tanks were still in use.

   I have a small set of 40cu ft tanks myself. (knee highs, in a little 
roll around cart) For general blue-wrench work around the shop, they 
last a long time. If I do a lot of cutting the oxygen bottle does run 
out though. I just use the local swap program, show up at a shop, walk 
in walk out with a filled bottle.

   I didn't sign up for the service, I just started using it. I was 
given the bottles from my dad who ran out of uses for them. He probably 
had them at least 15 years before they got to me.

-- 
Trevor Boicey, P. Eng.
Ottawa, Canada, tboicey@brit.ca
ICQ #17432933 http://www.brit.ca/~tboicey/
"You should tilt your heart when you pour longing into it..." - Cornfed

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