Question, vintage LP72 tank

[Couv]

Unfortunately the tank is only worth what someone is prepared to pay you for it. There is no market per se. I’m guessing $40-$60 but you may find someone who absolutely has to have it - even better when two people want it. Personally I’ve dumped more than I’ve kept of that vintage.

That's about what I was thinking-providing there is a galvanized coating under the yellow polyurethane coating. One chance a buyer would be taking is the inside might also have a coating and I'm not too fond of that.
@simonbeans might be interested in the back pack.

The most value the OP will get out of the tank is to have it inspected, re-certified, and dive it. For regular single tank dives-especially shore dives-the good old 72 is still my favorite.

 

[Luis H]

That tank is not galvanized. There is some rust spots anywhere that the paint has a scratch or the paint has been compromised in any way.

 

[rjack321]

Around here, that tank (out of hydro) with a J valve is worth at most $10. In hydro maybe $15-20 - and the hydro alone will cost you more than $20. It has no vintage value here in the Seattle/Puget Sound area
You could try ebay, the prices people sometimes pay there shock me.

The last time I bought a 72, I bought 5 of them all out of hydro but no valves for $25. They were all galvanized and unlined (yours isn't galvanized but might be epoxy lined). I had them hydroed, stripped some nasty vinyl off one, sold 2 as doubles, kept 2 as sidemount tanks, and kept the last one for no reason other than it wouldn't sell at $50 which really only covered the new valve I put into it but not the hydro.

 

[simonbeans]

That's about what I was thinking-providing there is a galvanized coating under the yellow polyurethane coating. One chance a buyer would be taking is the inside might also have a coating and I'm not too fond of that.
@simonbeans might be interested in the back pack.

The most value the OP will get out of the tank is to have it inspected, re-certified, and dive it. For regular single tank dives-especially shore dives-the good old 72 is still my favorite.

NO, simonbeans at vintagescubstuff.com would NOT be interested in the back pack. I call those "blown" backpacks as they are hollow. Thousands were around in the 1970s and very little interest today.

 

[happy-diver]

Which I find sort of well stupefying, as when you fill them with lead shot, bolt on a Pennington 18
and add some other accoutrements they make for a compact rig that dives horizontally sans belt

NO weight belt or just a tiny one

or no wing diving with or without a Fenzy

There goes a little pony


Diving It Magnificently!

 

[Couv]

NO, simonbeans at vintagescubstuff.com would NOT be interested in the back pack. I call those "blown" backpacks as they are hollow. Thousands were around in the 1970s and very little interest today.

Sorry about that. In the original post with the tank turned around, I thought the back back was a Voit style you were seeking.

...when you fill them with lead shot...

Holy crap @happy-diver ; how heavy does that make the back pack?

 

[jale]

Keep it, hydro it and have fun
Doesn't take much space and you will be happy to have it for your local dives

 

[Eric Sedletzky]

I’ve been given several of those tanks in the past. One thing I can say is I’ve never had to deal with one that had an internal liner, thank god!
I was given one once that was painted and had an extraordinary amount of external rust pitting down around the boot area. I sand blasted it to clean steel then sprayed on an epoxy DTM primer followed by a polyurethane topcoat. The inside was actually quite pristine. I took it to hydro and it passed!
It was a 1/2” pipe thread tank dated 1959. I dived it a few times then sold it for $50. Not the smartest business decision on my part if looking at it that way, but I did save a tank, gave the hydro shop and paint supplier some business, and made another diver happy.

 

[rnln]

Thanks everyone for your opinions. Another decision question, if you are given between this LP72 and an AL80 in current hydro (fairly new), which would you choose?
Thanks again.

 

[lowviz]

Any chance you can post pics of all the neck stampings on the AL80?