Need help identify tank

[osd9]

Tank is in hydro but needed a VIP. Got it VIP'd last week.

A little update. I turned the tank around and stamped on the reverse side of where the above markings are is ....

OMS/112

So, I guess it's an OMS 112 LP. I read somewhere, probably here, that the 108 and 112 are the same...could that be true?

The tank is obviously made by Faber. There is also a sticker on the neck area that says "it's steel it must be a Faber"

 

[SparticleBrane]

OMS labelled their 108s as 112s just so their tanks were "bigger" and people would buy them.

 

[osd9]

When I calculate my SAC rate, what value should I use....108 or 112?

 

[Jimmer]

When I calculate my SAC rate, what value should I use....108 or 112?

108. The 112 thing was just to sell tanks.

 

[osd9]

Thanks for all the help guys....it's really appreciated!

 

[Scared Silly]

Faber-Italy M8303 04/1284 130 17L 06 04. TC-3AAM-184/DOT 3AA 2400 REE86

Man I just loved all the guessing

M8303 == Mfg Id == Faber

04/1284 130 == 04 Year made, 1284 Batch number, 130 number in batch

17L water volume in liters.

06 04 == First hydro June 2004 (There should have been a + plus mark for overfill)

TC-3AAM-184 == TC Transport Canada, 3AAM Material Callout Steel. 184 working pressure in bar.

DOT 3AA 2400 == DOT Dept of Transportation, 3AA Material Callout Steel. 2400 working pressure in psi.

REE86 == rejection elastic expansion value


As for the OMS 112/108 thing we have a set of OMS66 or really LP65s I always found it funny.

If the Al cylinders are made by Catalina here is how to decipher their markings:

http://www.catalinacylinders.com/markscuba.html

 

[osd9]

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06 04 == First hydro June 2004 (There should have been a + plus mark for overfill)

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There is a '+' after the 04. There is also another 'symbol', kind of like the top part of an up-facing arrow between the 06 and the 04.

 

[SparticleBrane]

For the original hydro, most manufacturers put a small symbol between the month and year of the hydro stamp. It looks something like this, off of one of my Worthington 119s:

Luxfer's symbol (off one of my Al80s):

Whenever it is time to get this cylinder hydro'd, you'll see a small code between the two dates, something like this off one of my PST LP80s (note the "D7 26"):

This is the code of that specific hydro re-tester; if you wanted you could look it up based on a big list of re-testers from the DOT. It's difficult to make out, but the original hydro date is under the 2/08 mark -- on PST cylinders they didn't usually (I've never seen it, at least) put a symbol between the month and year of the original hydro test date. It was just a dash: "5-02+".