Re-Certifying oxy acetylene tanks in FL

[Soundguy]

i'd find a place that will swap them.. many places that have thouroughbred gas cylinders ( gas pony ).. they will swap your owner tanks for their gaspony tanks.. there is a 1 time fee for the swap.. it's not bad.. like 19$ per tank. after that you are good..

soundguy

 

[shade tree welder]

The other dealer in town allowed me to purchase my tanks 30 years ago and has been exchanging tank for tank ever since. If you do not have a bill of sale you are usually out of luck. In Ohio the tanks that are sold to an individual have a smooth collar on top of the cylinder-leased will usually have something casted on the top of the cylinder.

Ditto on the dealer. Grab the yellow pages and find somebody that will work with ya.

Do you own the tanks ?

Some other independants will just swap tanks and not worry about it. They enjoy the gas business.

Laws in states vary some, mostly LWS rules are the biggest problem. I own
all my cylinders I have titles for all of them, we have titles in Illinois. I just
swap them at my local LWS. Most mine have smooth neck rings and the LWS
swaps them with smooth when in stock but as long as I have titles it really
does not matter. Airgas will not refill/swap my cylinders, so they do not get
any of my business. The other independents will; but cannot beat SJ Smith's
pricing so I stick with them, and the free delivery is alwasy nice. I do have
to pay a hydro charge every 10 years on the tanks to SJ Smith. They actually
track that. Actually around here generally 3 years of lease/rental rates are
about equal to purchasing a cylinder. The smart LWS's sell tanks, dumb one
lease them but once the owner moves he owns them... LOL

I would look for a better LWS.

 

[Mark @ Everlast]

Here in GA, they won't even sell you a full size tank anymore.:confused2:

 

[shade tree welder]

Here in GA, they won't even sell you a full size tank anymore.:confused2:

That sucks how about businesses can they still purchase them?

 

[Skyco]

i'd find a place that will swap them.. many places that have thouroughbred gas cylinders ( gas pony ).. they will swap your owner tanks for their gaspony tanks.. there is a 1 time fee for the swap.. it's not bad.. like 19$ per tank. after that you are good..

soundguy

Might want to look at this-

Thoroughbred Industrial Cylinder Exchange

 

[Regneufeld]

Here in Canada we can only purchase the small tanks. I have 2 oxygen and one acetylene. they don't keep track of which tanks I actually own, I just take them in and pay for the gas they filled different ones with. That said there are or were tanks you could buy from canadian tire or some such place and those tanks they will fill and give back to you but no exchange. Not even sure tanks like that are available anymore.

 

[Soundguy]

Might want to look at this-

Thoroughbred Industrial Cylinder Exchange

that only applies to those large cyls. everything smaller is no problem. ( or if it is tb blue it is no problem )

I didn't see if the OP posted his cyl sizes or not.. so it was just a sugestion..

soundguy

 

[Mark @ Everlast]

That sucks how about businesses can they still purchase them?

No, I have a business...Lease or rent only. They say its a liability, blah blah blah,

 

[Skyco]

Might want to look at this-

Thoroughbred Industrial Cylinder Exchange

that only applies to those large cyls. everything smaller is no problem. ( or if it is tb blue it is no problem )

I didn't see if the OP posted his cyl sizes or not.. so it was just a sugestion..

soundguy

Understood, just pointing out they don't exchange all the sizes they sell unless meeting their conditions. Don't know why they are stricter on the larger ones. IIRC at one point they wouldn't take ANY cylinder from someone else for exchange. Looks like they backed off that, probably killed their business....



Found out why they won't take larger ones, they were sued by Airgas for taking in their cylinders. Theirs as in they still owned them, they were on lease.

 

[Soundguy]

who wants to pay 150$ every time they need to get more 02....

soundguy