Final answer to PST exemption questions

[SparticleBrane]

SparticleBrane, you want me to change the title of this thread to "Just another one of the many, and the many, many more to come answers to the PST exemption"?

Roak

Sounds like a plan to me...
or perhaps "Yet another PST exemption bickering thread!"

 

[royalediver]

Good news for Pressed Steel Tank owners.
Rumor has it that our DOT is going to violate all its' own rules and allow PST LLC to renew E-9791. Further it looks like the DOT will further violate it own rules and "experiment" with letting PST bring shells in from Korea and finish them in the U.S.A.

 

[PhilEllis]

I may be doing some backpedling, but not for the reasons previously thought........

I get "word" that the DOT is trying to work with PST Cylinders, LLC to qualify some blanks to be produced in Asia, for later finishing in a factory here in the United States for the production of cylinders. They will probably be qualified to another exception number, but this move may allow them to renew the original E-9791 exemption, putting owners in the clear for the time being.

This would be a RADICAL change from any previous action by the DOT and would require them to go against all protocols currently in existence.

Vance, do I get to use mustard and relish with those words if this comes about?

Thanks,

Phil Ellis

 

[royalediver]

blanks are the term for flat discs of steel used to draw a cylinder-this is allowed by DOT. PST wants to bring in cups-drawn steel, ready for closing and heat treating, this is a gross violation of DOT rules as they currently exist.

 

[PhilEllis]

blanks are the term for flat discs of steel used in draw a cylinder-this is allowed by DOT. PST want to bring in cups-drawn steel, ready for closing and heat treating, this is a gross vilolation of DOT rules as they currently exist.

I can't believe they are going to allow the import of complete D & I blanks for finishing. But hey, I am surprised that are considering any of this. So, who knows?

Anyway, this would be good for existing owners of E-9791 if this process allows assumption of the exemption by the new company.

Phil Ellis