Spray painting a galvanized tank?

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Any reputable shop I have asked to fill my bottles with Nitrox require a sticker stating the tanks has been cleaned and serviced for O2 that includes the valve O rings be suitable for O2 service.

Hey if you can find a dive shop to fill your bottles without this requirement go for it just make sure no one else is around due to a higher risk of explosion especially when using the blending method, and if they are one has to wonder how clean their air is and how often they service the pump?
 
The sticker I have on my tanks act as my proof of visual inspection and O2 cleaning.
It measures 3" x 3". I would never put one of those huge bumper stickers on my tank.
I just took a new diver buddy of mine to a dive gear maintainence seminar and we covered viz of tanks.
They have an aluminum tank there that had pitting under the NITROX sticker.
The pitting was so bad that they comdemned the tank.
YES, severe pitting on the outside of the tank can cause a tank to be condemned.
It can happen, one little nick in a sticker and saltwater gets under it.
 
I'm liking the idea of painting the bottom of my fins a bright color.

The tank painting thing isn't just about painting the tank.
It's about painting the tank a BRIGHT obnoxious color that my daughter can see from 40 feet away if we ever get sepearted.
 
Not my words below but interesting like I said no reputable dive shop in the eastern Ontario region will not fill your bottles unless proof of O2 cleaned sticker is on it this could be combined with a VIP sticker.

AN IMPORTANT NOTICE ABOUT NITROX



In recent years, Nitrox has become more and more popular with recreational scuba divers. Unfortunately, this growth, and some recent oxygen related accidents during tank filling, and stage bottle use, mean that nitrox blending, and oxygen clean standards are now drawing the attention of governmental agencies such as OSHA and the manufacturer’s legal liability council, as well as the “CE” or European standards agency.((You may not realize it, but most scuba manufacturers sell more equipment in Europe and European commonwealth related countries than they do in the United States)).

The up side of these discussions for recreational scuba is that nearly all of the equipment manufacturers now say their equipment is “nitrox compatible” for blends up to 40% right out of the box, with no special cleaning, or parts needed. Most small shops do nitrox fills using a method called “partial pressure blending.” This involves putting pure oxygen into the tank, then topping with air. It is very effective, and efficient, and relatively cost effective to set up. All tanks and valves, however, must be oxygen compatible and oxygen clean, since the first step involves putting the pure oxygen into your tank.

Now back to the OP question yes due to the low vis up here in the St Lawrence river after a rainfall not hard to get confused if there are many divers on a wreck so painting the bottom of the fins with your name or another identifying mark seems to work well, one of the tech instructors has bright florescent pink fins.
 
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I don't believe the problem is the tank.


I'm thinking along the lines of a long rope------7 of us got our 14 snapper last weekend--the largest were 21 lbs down to 15 lbs...& no erl(60 miles south of Cameron jetties)....
 
Any reputable shop I have asked to fill my bottles with Nitrox require a sticker stating the tanks has been cleaned and serviced for O2 that includes the valve O rings be suitable for O2 service.

Hey if you can find a dive shop to fill your bottles without this requirement go for it just make sure no one else is around due to a higher risk of explosion especially when using the blending method, and if they are one has to wonder how clean their air is and how often they service the pump?
I guess I must frequent shops that you'd not find reputable. Psst ... hey buddy ... wanna tank of devil-gas?

I keep my tanks and valves very clean and ready for oxygen service (and I have done so since long before the recreational diving world knew that EAN existed). But proclaiming to the world that my tank is that clean by affixing a huge bumper sticker to it ... naw, I don't need to do that.
Not my words below but interesting like I said no reputable dive shop in the eastern Ontario region will not fill your bottles unless proof of O2 cleaned sticker is on it this could be combined with a VIP sticker.

AN IMPORTANT NOTICE ABOUT NITROX



In recent years, Nitrox has become more and more popular with recreational scuba divers. Unfortunately, this growth, and some recent oxygen related accidents during tank filling, and stage bottle use, mean that nitrox blending, and oxygen clean standards are now drawing the attention of governmental agencies such as OSHA and the manufacturer’s legal liability council, as well as the “CE” or European standards agency.((You may not realize it, but most scuba manufacturers sell more equipment in Europe and European commonwealth related countries than they do in the United States)).

The up side of these discussions for recreational scuba is that nearly all of the equipment manufacturers now say their equipment is “nitrox compatible” for blends up to 40% right out of the box, with no special cleaning, or parts needed. Most small shops do nitrox fills using a method called “partial pressure blending.” This involves putting pure oxygen into the tank, then topping with air. It is very effective, and efficient, and relatively cost effective to set up. All tanks and valves, however, must be oxygen compatible and oxygen clean, since the first step involves putting the pure oxygen into your tank.

Now back to the OP question yes due to the low vis up here in the St Lawrence river after a rainfall not hard to get confused if there are many divers on a wreck so painting the bottom of the fins with your name or another identifying mark seems to work well, one of the tech instructors has bright florescent pink fins.
Tell those primitives in the eastern Ontario region to join the modern world and stop mixing NITROX like us amateurs, go pro get a membrane or a stick and start banking it.
 
Well Thal oh great one hopefully we primitives in Ontario will be able to rise to your high level of diving knowledge and abilities and yes I will be sure the dive shops up here your message, what a load of self righteous, self serving drivel!!

By the way anytime your up to it I welcome you to come dive with us Ontario primitives if we are worthy and maybe you could teach us a thing or two :dork2:

Hey I have a great idea based on your calculations on your post in another thread how about you show us how to bounce dive to 200ft with an un-O2 cleaned 80 cuft aluminum bottle with a 32% nitrox mix I'm sure you could figure it out, but mind if I watch with my double 100's and my 40 cuft deco bottle all O2 cleaned by the way :)
 
I was not considering YOU a primitive (though that is your right if you so wish), but rather shops that are still doing partial pressure filling and not banking. As far as learning from you, I learn from everyone I dive with and my Canadian trips to Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, Labrador, up the Davis Strait and Ellesmere Ilsland were all quite educational.
 
Yes sure Thal whatever you say:D Obviously your idea and my idea of safe diving practice above and below water are miles apart you dive your way and I'll dive mine to be honest I find some of your statements regarding your dive experiences suspect to say the least.
 
If you think that a banner on your tank has anything what-so-ever to do with your diving safety (a field that I've spent my entire adult career in) then I strongly recommend you go back to one of the shops that requires such a banner and, with your hand over your wallet, retake their NITROX class and see if there actually is anything but a shop driven profit center going on.
 
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