How reasonable is it to expect a "good" fill in New England?

[oceancurrent]

Additionally, they cause corrosion and need to be replaced at every VIP.

Good point. I didn't think of it...

Generally, I don't like stickers on tanks (mostly for aesthetical reasons). I have scraped off the manufacturer labels from my tanks and left them with just the ellegant VIP stickers from PG.

Sounds to me like two main reasons why we see the big Nitrox bands on tanks are:

1. The band helps sort out the rentals at divestores which keep dedicated Nitrox tanks (resorts, generally)

2. People like showing off that they are Nitrox divers

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[Diesel298]

any stickers on my tanks came like that.
i dont mind the nitrox sticker on my deco gas just for quick reference bou its nothing a piece of duct tape that says 50% MOD 70FSW wont do

 

[yak]

I stopped getting my fills at CAD after they made a buddy scrape the nitrox sticker off his tank before they'd give him an air fill (although I'll grant that big green Nitrox stickers are dumb). Apparently, EAN21 isn't nitrox on Cape Ann.
Between that and the high price, it's one of my last choices for fills... even if they usually are pretty full.

Yea, Al at South Shore warned me about that when I got my nitrox cert last month.

My LDS (NAS) is pretty good with fills. I did end up with about 3800 psi once in an E7, but they're normally at 3450-3500 once they've cooled.