That's how they do it here--you can buy or rent a tank, but either way
when you need more gas they're not going to fill the tank you drove up
with, while you wait. They give you a new tank and the tank you used to
own is now theirs, and you own the new tank they give you , I suppose.
The primary difference seems to be whether they're charging you each
month for the tank or not.
But yeah, it's vital you make sure they'll accept the tank you buy.
Otherwise it's just garage art.
On 9/25/2011 12:18 PM, Douglas Braun wrote:
> In NJ, all the places I know just do exchanges on acetylene bottles. So if
> you buy a bottle and there is something wrong with it (out of date?) and
> they won't take it as an exchange, you would have wasted your money.
>
> Thy guy told me that there is only one place in NJ that actually fills them,
> and everybody else simply exchanges them and sends the empties back to the
> filling station. The place I usually go to changed hands a couple of years
> ago, and now they don't fill any gas cylinders at all, just exchange them
> like Home Depot does with barbeque grill propane tanks.
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