Any shops rent HP65 tanks-Lauderdale area?

[BethO]

Anyone know of any shops in the Broward County area (or even Palm Beach area) that rent steel HP 65 cylinders? I like the steel tanks, but I'm a little overweighted with the HP80s. I'd like to try out a HP 65 but am not sure where I can rent one.

Thanks for any help.
Beth

 

[ONESPEED]

:huh:Overweighted with HP80's? You must weigh about 20lbs.

Kidding, I don't know if they have HP65's for sure but if anyone would it would be FillExpress. Give them a call. Fill Express -- Nitrox & Technical Diving Specialist Serving Greater Fort Lauderdale

 

[deepstops]

:huh:Overweighted with HP80's? You must weigh about 20lbs.

Kidding, I don't know if they have HP65's for sure but if anyone would it would be FillExpress. Give them a call. Fill Express -- Nitrox & Technical Diving Specialist Serving Greater Fort Lauderdale

If they are Faber HP 80s, they are ridiculously heavy for what they are (-7.2 lbs. when empty).

In the PST line, there's not much difference between the empty specs on 80s and 65s. (-3.3 and -1.5 respectively)

This a reasonably accurate list of all cylinder specs: TECHDIVINGLIMITED.COM

 

[ONESPEED]

If they are Faber HP 80s, they are ridiculously heavy for what they are (-7.2 lbs. when empty).

In the PST line, there's not much difference between the empty specs on 80s and 65s. (-3.3 and -1.5 respectively)

This a reasonably accurate list of all cylinder specs: TECHDIVINGLIMITED.COM

Excellent chart Brian.

 

[BethO]

105 lbs - and I sink like a rock. Yeah - Fill Express is really great - very knowledgeable over there. In fact that's the first place I went when I started looking for steel tanks. I rented Worthington HP 80 cylinders from them. These tanks are 28lbs empty and buoyancy is -9 to -3, but I was overweighted. Unfortunately they don't rent the HP65's. I wasn't greatly overweighted with the 80's so I thought maybe the 65s would work for me. But I'm concerned about just buying the 65's without trying them first. I can't seem to find any shops that will rent them though.

Great chart Brian - really spells out all the choices.

Thanks for your help on this-
Beth

 

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You might want to look at the Faber LP85.
85 cf of gas and the ability to hold 110 with a "good" fill.
They are such a "lovely" tank, I use them as doubles for technical diving.

 

[Tom Winters]

I misread this - thought I saw LP65. I've never seen an HP version, but those LP66's are something else. For smaller-framed women who are air-efficient, they are the best tanks out there. They just about disappear into a tank holder on a boat. They're like something that you would stick on a Barbie diver doll. There's a dive shop owner with stores in Riviera Beach, Boca and Pompano who loves them. I've never seen baby tanks like that for rent though.
I know of a tech guy who used them twinned for deep stuff. He filled them himself so who-knows-what the final PSI's were.
I have heard of some dive shops righteously overfilling LP scuba tanks, but I believe that the last of them closed years ago and everyone concerned emigrated to the Lake Baikal area of Siberia.
The last of the LP66's can be located at Northeast Scuba Supply for $265 each.
Northeast Scuba Supply - Online Catalog - Tanks
Good luck with all that.

 

[BethO]

Thanks so much for the info. I'll check out the LP85's and LP66's and do some more homework and see if something will work for me. It looks like shops just don't rent the small steel tanks. I think you just have to buy them based on the chart info and hope for the best!
Beth