Metric Faber tank I.D. help, please.

[James79]

I was just given an older steel tank by a non diver (had been used as a paintball fill station at one point). It's a Faber manufactured, Scubapro branded steel... Shorter than my LP 72s, and fatter than an Aluminum 80 (I believe it's 8 inch diameter). Not DOT stamped, and the valve in it is the metric 25x2 thread.
Please somebody help me decipher the stampings, and decide if it's worth trying to put into service!

 

[tbone1004]

well if it's not DOT stamped then you can't put it into service legally, so that answers that question fairly quickly.

It's probably something around a low pressure 95 though. I'm not that familiar with those markings, but either way, you can't legally fill those bottles, nor can you get them hydro'd in this country. If you have your own compressor, that's up to you, but a dive shop certainly won't touch it.

 

[jale]

Looks like you got a 12L steel tank from 1998 with a last hydro done in 2005.
A keeper.
I have a few similar 10L tanks and still use them

 

[James79]

Well, that was quick! I take it then that there's no reciprocity with different country's standards?
And thanks!

 

[tbone1004]

Well, that was quick! I take it then that there's no reciprocity with different country's standards?
And thanks!

sadly not. They make great bells if you cut the bottoms off though, but that's about all it's going to be good for on this continent

 

[jale]

Where did u get it ?
Europe or Asia ?

 

[James79]

Friend who runs a paintball field gave it to me.... Was on the porch of the shop when he bought it. I'm near a military post, so my guess is it was given to the field by someone returned from Germany years ago.
That's just speculation though.

 

[jale]

I don't know if you can requalify it as a DOT tank but Tbone seems to say it is imposible...
Need to get your own compressor then

 

[James79]

I want a compressor... I NEED my wife not to kill me! Lol