BTW...All our customers know where our hydros are done. We don't mark up the cost. The hydro shop is in town so they pick up and drop off the tanks. It's no skin off my nose and it simplifies the process for the tank owner. Also, it sometimes saves them money. We have found defects before sending the tank for hydro, therefore, saving the hydro cost.
All about visual inspection stickers VCI/VIP
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Hydros are DOT required things.
If the customer didn't want to pay the markup that a LDS adds on to a hydro, he can take it to any fire extinguisher or compressed-gas shop that can do them himself (there is a list available online; shops who can do the test are all certified by the government, and I've got it around here somewhere.)
A hydroed tank is done and the tank and valve returned to the customer (usually loose.) No visual is done by the hydro place, since there is no such thing outside of the scuba business.
The VIP is purely a dive shop thing and is uncorrelated with the hydro.
What you're describing is not odd at all, unless the guy took it to a dive shop for the hydro, in which case the "usual practice" is to do the VIP when the tank comes back.
Sounds like the VIP simply wasn't done and/or the customer went directly to a hydro test facility with the tank rather than going through a dive shop.
If the customer didn't want to pay the markup that a LDS adds on to a hydro, he can take it to any fire extinguisher or compressed-gas shop that can do them himself (there is a list available online; shops who can do the test are all certified by the government, and I've got it around here somewhere.)
A hydroed tank is done and the tank and valve returned to the customer (usually loose.) No visual is done by the hydro place, since there is no such thing outside of the scuba business.
The VIP is purely a dive shop thing and is uncorrelated with the hydro.
What you're describing is not odd at all, unless the guy took it to a dive shop for the hydro, in which case the "usual practice" is to do the VIP when the tank comes back.
Sounds like the VIP simply wasn't done and/or the customer went directly to a hydro test facility with the tank rather than going through a dive shop.
FredT
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The first step of any hydro by DOT regs is a close visual inspection. It's the VIP STICKER that's a dive industry thing. Most gas suppliers will question your oxygen bottle if it HAS a sticker. It confuses them since the only sticker they usually see is the neck contents sticker.
FT
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