The Great Helium Hunt of 2021

[Marie13]

Just got home from getting my tanks. 4 x LP85 filled to 20/20 (approximately) to 3000psi. 1 x AL40 with 100% filled to 2200psi, and a 6cft suit bottle air fill and a VIP on the suit bottle, although the shop just charged me $2 for the tank O ring and slapped the VIP sticker on. Even though I have a whip, I wanted to ensure I could get the suit bottle filled at a shop if needed.

 

[Jack Hammer]

$0.70cf for O2, wow.

 

[CptTightPants21]

Just got home from getting my tanks. 4 x LP85 filled to 20/20 (approximately) to 3000psi. 1 x AL40 with 100% filled to 2200psi, and a 6cft suit bottle air fill and a VIP on the suit bottle, although the shop just charged me $2 for the tank O ring and slapped the VIP sticker on. Even though I have a whip, I wanted to ensure I could get the suit bottle filled at a shop if needed.

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I understand you are in a tough spot, but that invoice infuriates me to my core and I could never get fills from that shop.

18.50 as a flat surface charge, .70 a cuft for O2, helium @ 4 FRACKING SIXTY. They even put their thumb on the scale when counting the helium cuft. Jesus...

 

[CptTightPants21]

I understand you are in a tough spot, but that invoice infuriates me to my core and I could never get fills from that shop.

18.50 as a flat surface charge, .70 a cuft for O2, helium @ 4 FRACKING SIXTY. They even put their thumb on the scale when counting the helium cuft. Jesus...

Honestly, you could have bought almost 2 Ts of helium for what they are charging.

 

[Marie13]

The shop in Evanston charges $20 for Trimix labor. A friend in southern CA pays $1.05/cft for 100% O2.

Just discovered the shop by my office charges $0.33/cft for O2. Think I will get the O2 fills there from now on. That shop does charge $10 for custom nitrox mixes so I’d be paying that extra for 50%.

 

[Marie13]

The Evanston shop’s prices. I’m not counting on that helium price being current.

 

[Marie13]

Honestly, you could have bought almost 2 Ts of helium for what they are charging.

Ts of helium are going for more than $600 in the Chicago market. My instructor’s shop in WI charges $5/cft.

 

[Manatee Diver]

Jesus that sounds like highway robbery to me.

No labor charges, because some idiot is doing the valve knob turning. Oh.... wait.... that idiot is me.

 

[Marie13]

The prices in the Great Lakes area are totally different than FL. The demand for helium up here is much, much less.

 

[Manatee Diver]

The prices in the Great Lakes area are totally different than FL. The demand for helium up here is much, much less.

If I ever dove up there I would be bringing a trailer full of tanks.

I'm not sure how accurate the helium prices are in that previous clip, as I went to look at the other shop I get fills at. And here are their prices, and typically they are pretty close in price.

TBH I rarely look at my invoice, I just hand over my credit card and try to remember if I have enough ramen for the month.