When To End a Tank's Life???

[Jim Lapenta]

I say it is time to start a thread naming stupid shops. If they won't fill otherwise good tanks due to age, decals, looks, etc. Post their name and if you have it phone number and email. We can then call them if we travel ask them if indeed they are dumbasses and ask why they will not fill perfectly good tanks.

 

[Eric Sedletzky]

I don't understand a shop that would not fill any steel tank that has a current hydro and VIP.
You'd think they would be glad to make the extra $5 or $6 for the fill.
What, do they think they are going to blow up or something?
72's are probably the safest tanks out there. They were built like a tank (the kind with tracks) and they are low pressure (2250).
WTH???

 

[ronbeau]

"What would you do?"

I would sell or recycle them and buy new steel tanks. My new HP100 steel tanks weigh about the same, have better buoyancy characteristics, give me 30% more air, take 6 lbs. off my weightbelt, and will last forever.

I think you mean 25% more air.

100 cf - 80 cf = 20 CF difference.

20/80 = 25%

 

[elmer fudd]

Here in the Tacoma area, neither Underwater Sports or Lighthouse have a problem with filling my LP72's. Underwater Sports doesn't accept AL tanks older than 1990 however. Not sure about Lighthouse.

I'm also pretty sure Tacoma Scuba would fill LP72's.

 

[Dyno Bill]

I never had anyone refuse to refill a tank that had current certs. It's the hydro shop that can condemn a tank I always go them back and made stuff out of them. I still have steel tanks that have a twist valve on the top like a water bib.

 

[spectrum]

I never had anyone refuse to refill a tank that had current certs. It's the hydro shop that can condemn a tank I always go them back and made stuff out of them. I still have steel tanks that have a twist valve on the top like a water bib.

It's not about condemnation, just a shop decision not to fill. Their pump, their call.

It's rooted in come combination of ignorance, fear, greed and marketing. It's the reality in many locations.

One shop in the region changes $120 to VIP 1990 and older (20Y) aluminums.

Pete

 

[Dyno Bill]

Crap the last VIP I paid for was maybe 15 bucks and I did most following that myself. If it's rusty it goes for a spin/tumble. The hydro inspection shop is where the go/ no go happens

 

[Avonthediver]

It's not about condemnation, just a shop decision not to fill. Their pump, their call.

It's rooted in come combination of ignorance, fear, greed and marketing. It's the reality in many locations.

One shop in the region changes $120 to VIP 1990 and older (20Y) aluminums.

Pete

hOLLy CraP BaTmAN!!!! $120.00 for a VIP?!

 

[Avonthediver]

I live in ...belive it or not in a diving community the most I have paid for a viz and a hydro is $50.00 bucks!

About 72 tanks. a buddy of mine did have one of his tanks go un-filled cause of a plug that had not been drilled out and a burst disk installed. But after he got it fixed for fifteen dollars he was back on the raod again!
The old steel tanks are just that tanks...maby I should see if he would name them "Sherman's"

 

[--tom--]

I think you mean 25% more air.

100 cf - 80 cf = 20 CF difference.

20/80 = 25%

Sorry, Mike is correct.

Your formulas are right, but an AL80 holds 77cf of air; ST100's holds a 100cf.

So 100 - 77 = 23

23/77 = 29.87% I'd call it 30%.

One of the many idiosyncrasies of scuba.