How old is "too" old for aluminum cylinders?

[tursiops]

I am out on Kauai and on my morning walk there's a neighbor with a mailbox that is a polished metal pipe .... it got me thinking about repurposing a steel 72.

Cut the top off, weld on a hinge and a latch, add a small dive flag mail signal...mount it on a post. How cool would that be? It's on the to-do list

Edit ... of course I'm not the first to think of this LOL

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I too have a dive flag on my mailbox...

 

[Gone for diving]

I am out on Kauai and on my morning walk there's a neighbor with a mailbox that is a polished metal pipe .... it got me thinking about repurposing a steel 72.

Cut the top off, weld on a hinge and a latch, add a small dive flag mail signal...mount it on a post. How cool would that be? It's on the to-do list

Edit ... of course I'm not the first to think of this LOL

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What's with the mailbox on the ground?
They have very short people living there?

 

[Still Kicking]

What's with the mailbox on the ground?
They have very short people living there?

That was just a random google image. Good question...

 

[Still Kicking]

I will check records and see if there is any pattern. Many are Norris I would guess just because they are most common 72s.

Going back to March '18:
Out of 47 failures, 21 were Norris steel 72s (excessive permanent expansion).

Other: 6 Worthington HP tanks exceeded REE, 4 PST HP, 4 LP 95s, 4 misc 72s, 3 Faber shorty 72s, 2 Al80s and a few miscellaneous.

 

[happy-diver]

Nice Aqua Master DA reg ['69?].....how does it breath on that bottle? The Land of Oz indeed!

Your AO looks very sharp and organized.....jealous!

Yeah I'm happy thanks man.

It's one of those years I don't know, I put a Phoenix nozzle on it but breathing it laying on the deck is crap

Here is the Bow T-post on my boat.

Mate this is magnificent when I rob a bank to afford a boat, then get out of jail I'll make one

Maybe I'll just wait a while, and come back with my life organised like yours, bloody brilliant



The family Dachshund collects the mail dudes