SCBA tank from Best Fittings
My 4500psi, 45 minute SCBA tank has reached its 15 year lifespan and my 60 minute tank has a couple of years left.
I can buy a 60 minute tank, without the valve, from Joe at AirTanksForSale.com for $499. I have checked best fittings and they seem to offer a 60 minute tank that is cheaper than what Joe sells.
Has anybody, in the US, bought a SCBA tank from Best Fittings and if so, what was the shipping cost? Are the Best Fittings tanks DOT approved?
I’m trying to get stuff lined up for the AOA shoot this fall and this air gun bullshit is quickly getting out of hand! 😯
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To call you a sissy would be an insult to all the sissies in the world…
Dr.:evil:
My point was it’s more likely that it happens something to the scuba tank your filling from than the tube on the gun you’re filling.
Filled a few tanks to date but never heard of a catastrophic failure. Of course a missile now and then after a knocked off valve and ones a burst disc rupture @340bar behind me and nearly made me soil my pants.
Almost forgot that time when a pipe connection stripped the threads on the activated charcoal filter and in 1 millisecond filled the entire room with atomized activated charcoal, pitch black!
As long as they are used as intended and handled with care the risk is less than minimal, hell otherwise you never would get to play with them in the land of lawsuits and worst case scenario… U end up looking like :hOOt: on a good day.
Good night…
Dr.:evil:
The Toad Suck Stallion? That Ti peeling sounds innovative. For some reason I’m more afraid about that little tube blowing up under my nose than the Tank blowing up . I’m a Sissy …
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It depends on who is looking at the tank when they fill it. 😯
So If the tank are produced according to DOT-CFFC standards than they should be good to go in the US ???
Haven’t you heard? Titanium peeling it’s the latest trend in beauty treatments…
My point was it’s more likely that it happens something to the scuba tank your filling from than the tube on the gun you’re filling.
Filled a few tanks to date but never heard of a catastrophic failure. Of course a missile now and then after a knocked off valve and ones a burst disc rupture @340bar behind me and nearly made me soil my pants.
Almost forgot that time when a pipe connection stripped the threads on the activated charcoal filter and in 1 millisecond filled the entire room with atomized activated charcoal, pitch black!
As long as they are used as intended and handled with care the risk is less than minimal, hell otherwise you never would get to play with them in the land of lawsuits and worst case scenario… U end up looking like :hOOt: on a good day.
Good night…
Dr.:evil:
So an airtube with 300 something CC of air pressurized to 200 Bar exploding on your face is not a big deal ?? 😯
I don’t know if the local fire houses will fill a CE tank.
I do know that I wouldn’t be able to get a non DOT tank hydroed.
Best fittings tanks are NOT DOT marked.
You as a “civilian” can use it in the states as you like BUT it won’t be handled professionally.
That means it won’t be filled, hydro tested probably not even shipped but with a compressor of your own you’re set for the life of the tank, l wouldn’t go past the expiration date on a cf tank definitely not if it’s not tested and inspected regularly.
By the way… Over here you can take a steel scuba tank with 5 years test interval and retype it for technical gas and then it’s 10 years interval just one thing, you can’t go back.
The cf tanks are always 5 years interval regardless of what it’s used for.
On the topic of Chinese Ti or any small air tank beside the face just take a minute and think about the pressure in a 10 liter 300 bar tank… The pressure per square inch of tank inside wall is crazy if you do the math so smaller is safer.
Dr.:evil:
Best Fittings is a very highly regarded company over here. Great service, great products and sensible prices.
Tedd, I got my tank from Mac-1. It was much cheaper than Air tanks for sale.
Knife
A year ago I bought SCBA tanks off eBay with 5 years remaining for $75 shipped. I ended up buying a Jubilee valves (slow flow) from Best Fittings. They were very reasonable at $125 shipped to the USA for the valve, gauge, whip, and foster fitting. American SCBA tanks use 7/8-14 thread IIRC. If you look on their page they make the jubilee valve with a lot of different threads. In addition to the certifications being different maybe the thread size is too….
Clint
Anyone use the Luxfer 106 cu ft 4350 tanks? I think they are glass covered but I could be wrong. They are heavy 33 lbs but a lot of fills.
http://www.rlairgunsupply.com/high-pressure-air-tanks/a-luxfer-limited-106-cylinder/
Again back to “Luxfer” who is producing the vast majority of tanks for DS, BSA and others. Although these are small tanks (typically from 200 cc to 500 cc), they still have them tested and labeled. And they supply to the US market as well as the European. I some cases you’ll find the bottles are “dual purpose” and labeled CE and DOT.
The real difference between the two standards lies in how they are being tested. The procedures are different for the two standards although the aim is the same, – to make a safe tank for you and me. I am led to believe that one of the standards involve testing at fixed stations during production and of course pressure tested at the end. If it passes, – the relevant stamp will be given. The other standard has a different way of testing although the end result may be the same but with a different stamp. I was told by “Luxfer” that this is one of the reasons why it is difficult to go back and give an already DOT labeled tank a CE certificate and vice/versa.
Intervals for hydrotesting may vary from one country to another and also depend on use. Bottles for diving/breathing have in general a more strict “regime” than pressure vessels used for other purposes. Tanks for “other purposes” would normally have a black and white collar indicating it is not meant for diving (CE-regime).
The rules and regulations governing our pressure vessels are indeed a jungle to navigate. Especially so in the EU, where individual countries still stick to some of their national ruling……..
This didn’t help much, – did it…………. 😳
Cheers
Trygve :biggrinn:
Yep. He is. BF is on the World Map ! :biggrinn:
I can buy a 60 minute tank, without the valve, from Joe at AirTanksForSale.com for $499. I have checked best fittings and they seem to offer a 60 minute tank that is cheaper than what Joe sells.
Has anybody, in the US, bought a SCBA tank from Best Fittings and if so, what was the shipping cost? Are the Best Fittings tanks DOT approved?
I’m trying to get stuff lined up for the AOA shoot this fall and this air gun bullshit is quickly getting out of hand! 😯
Are you talking about Best Fittings here in the UK??
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Damn right!