The Great Helium Hunt of 2021

[Manatee Diver]

I guess they are renting.

 

[Marie13]

Sure sounds like it.

 

[_Ralph]

Helium comes in smaller sizes than T's too .....


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[KentB]

Talk to the ccr diver maybe he has space to store the bottle and you 2 split it?

 

[Marie13]

Going to cave country around the holidays, so I’ll bring back at least one pair of 85s filled with helium. I’ve got a transfill whip already.

 

[tmassey]

Going to cave country around the holidays, so
I’ll bring back at least one pair of 85s filled with helium. I’ve got a transfill whip already.

Apartment or not, you realize you’re 1/2 a step away from a compressor – or at least a booster. @tbone1004 has one that fits in a pelican case.

 

[tbone1004]

Apartment or not, you realize you’re 1/2 a step away from a compressor – or at least a booster. @tbone1004 has one that fits in a pelican case.

yup... requires 110vac, scuba inflator, or low pressure shop compressor, doesn't really care which one, it's also for sale now that I bought a Masterline...

 

[jlcnuke]

yup... requires 110vac, scuba inflator, or low pressure shop compressor, doesn't really care which one, it's also for sale now that I bought a Masterline...

Did I miss that in the classifieds?...

 

[mderrick]

I remember paying $95 a T and selling it at .50 a cubic foot.

I can remember when gasoline was 29.9 cents a gallon, and a guy put it in your car for you.

And it is really 300 SCF by molecular weight, not a divers cube of breathing gas. Add cylinder rental and delivery... so figure a dive shop landed cost is about $1.00 a foot, probably a lot more because in my observation of inexperienced trimix blenders is they lose a lot of gas, plus labor costs, and specialized equipment investment, opportunity costs, etc... any dive shop in south florida charging less than $3 a foot is probably losing money on trimix and should be charging $4 a foot if they expect to make a very modest profit.

 

[tbone1004]

Did I miss that in the classifieds?...

no, haven't really advertised it yet