i'm pretty certain this doesn't affect the industry as a whole, but the president of the home owners association where i live is throwing quite a fit over my cylinders. i just got a letter stating "cans of compressed air" are precluded in the complex's deed restrictions. i guess is she considers them HAZMAT. i don't think an objective assesment of risk is in her repertoire, and i'm pretty sure she can't do anything about it (except send letters): but i'm curious if other on this forum have experienced similar paranoia from your neighbors who might worry your AL80 is a "bomd[sic] waiting to go off?" and how you dealt with the situation? thanks.
Cans of compressed air? So, is the HOA limiting which household goods you can keep in your house too? Last I checked, the little can you get at MicroCenter to blow the lint out of your PC fan was a can of compressed air. And we're talking a single family dwelling here, right? Not that a townhouse should be any different, but you don't need her coming back with the argument that that spontaneously exploding cylinder will take off the baby's head when it travels through the spare bedroom wall into the baby's room next door. You wouldn't get much sympathy fighting that argument.
If I were in your shoes, I'd ignore her. HOA board members need things to do, and hassling you over your cylinders gives them something to bitch about with each other during meetings, and hours of fun drafting letters. You are providing a service for those less fortunate than you, and who wish they had a life. You can probably provide 1-2 years of entertainment for them, as well as incurring a few legal expenses (when they consult with the HOA lawyer) before someone else is elected and the whole matter is dropped.
I used to deal with them in this way: I had a trailer parked in my yard. It was visible from the street, and it might have any amount of boat equipment on it (spare engines, the crane, etc. etc.). It was in clear violation of the deed restrictions. BUT, the HOA also provided a neighborhood watch service that I truly believed in, and found helpful keeping crime down while at work or offshore. I bought the citizen's patrol over $1,000 of gasoline per year for their patrols. Whenever the deed restriction bitch would cruise the neighborhood and write me up for my utility trailer, the neighborhood watch member would tell her to STFU and go away. I never got a letter, and was happy for the protection. The HOA lawyer lived across the street from me, and he would tell me the stories of the meetings where the deed restriction bitch would get all red in the face, and couldn't do anything about my stupid trailer.
