can i use a SCBA to fill my SCUBA tanks?

[nadwidny]

Soooo, the short version is if you want Grade E air, then you really need a compressor/filter stack assembly that's designed as a whole to produce that grade.

Nonsense. Grade E is ridiculously easy to attain and is pretty much done with stock filters that come with the compressor.

Most compressors that meet Grade E also meet the pseudo-standards of ANDI's O.C.A. and the NAUI's "oxygen clean".

 

[CraigAClark]

Portable machines with stock filtration may produce Grade E initially. However, they cannot produce it throughout the cartridge life. Examples are the Bauer triplex and the filtration on the Coltri MCH-6.

Your avatar is from an early movie about moonshine runners and that guy played one of the detectives in "Cold Case".

 

[nadwidny]

Portable machines with stock filtration may produce Grade E initially. However, they cannot produce it throughout the cartridge life. Examples are the Bauer triplex and the filtration on the Coltri MCH-6.

Possibly. I don't see too many, if any, samples from portable machines. However anything bigger doesn't have a problem which would include pretty much every compressor in a fire department.

Your avatar is from an early movie about moonshine runners and that guy played one of the detectives in "Cold Case".

Nope. It's Ricky from Trailer Park Boys.