Can anyone smell the air from a tank and determine where it was filled?
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Actually, there is a shop in our town that you can tell if it was filled there by the smell. The air smells just like compressor oil. You can taste it too, even for some hours after you breath it. Years ago when I first got back into diving I went there for a short time. Every experienced diver I know avoids the gas at that place.
Rick pegged it.
The guy wasn't talking about locations in any geographical sense - air is air.
But if you try to skimp on compressor service (because its expensive) and not replace your filters frequently enough, the air smells like compressor oil - there can be oil in your tank that blows by the filters...and the hotter the compressor and day the tank was filled, the more oil smell there can be in the gas in your tank.
In many towns the guys who own shops know one another, and word gets around. It could indeed be the case that a person who fills for a living can smell tanks that clearly indicate someone isn't changing compressor filters frequently enough. And if they know who that someone is.......then they have a pretty good guess as to where that tank was filled.
Oil in your breathing gas is no joke. There are some threads on other sites about guys who nearly bought it due to toulene and other petroleum byproducts in their breathing gas. Its a problem that people should be aware of, and take seriously.
Just FYI....
Doc
The guy wasn't talking about locations in any geographical sense - air is air.
But if you try to skimp on compressor service (because its expensive) and not replace your filters frequently enough, the air smells like compressor oil - there can be oil in your tank that blows by the filters...and the hotter the compressor and day the tank was filled, the more oil smell there can be in the gas in your tank.
In many towns the guys who own shops know one another, and word gets around. It could indeed be the case that a person who fills for a living can smell tanks that clearly indicate someone isn't changing compressor filters frequently enough. And if they know who that someone is.......then they have a pretty good guess as to where that tank was filled.
Oil in your breathing gas is no joke. There are some threads on other sites about guys who nearly bought it due to toulene and other petroleum byproducts in their breathing gas. Its a problem that people should be aware of, and take seriously.
Just FYI....
Doc
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Ahhh. This is a result of someone that states something that is so incorrect with enthusiastic ignorance that you feel embarrassed while they donÃÕ. This can also be explained as the uncomfortable feeling for someone that overwhelms you from head to toe. You look for a rock to hide under or a way to evaporate into thin air but there is no place to go!
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