55 inched 200 cubic foot scuba tank refill station
Does anyone know much about these type of tanks?
It contains pure oxygen at the moment. Can this be dangerous to shoot out of a PCP?
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I don’t have any idea what the pressure is for portable medical O2 tanks. I’ll have to take a closer look the next time I’m at the hospital. I have 4 boys so I end up there all too often! In fact, I was there just a few nights ago when my 12 year old was showing symptoms of apendecitous (SP?). Anyhow the rolling bed had a bottle of O2 installed and it was green as were all the wall outlets for O2.
You know, Jerry, that’s been bothering me as well. I think medical is blue, for sure industrial and scientific grades came in green.
Not only does the bottle need to be the right color, but the valves also often change with the gas. All in all I like the suggestion of trading it in for a HPA tank at the gas rack if you can.
Something in the back of my mind also says medical gas is lower pressure? Getting the tank recertified would cover that……the dive shop is still gonna have a heart attack when you cart it in though.
They can get kinda jumpy when it could cause safety issues (like when they won’t put Nitrogen in SCBA tanks).
Doug Owen
All kidding aside, I don’t think any responsible shop will fill that tank until it is certified (if not already) and painted the right color for air. I’ve got a yellow tank just like it for bulk storage of HPA and I thought green was the color for O2. Maybe green is just for medical purity O2. But if light blue is for industrial oxygen, than filling with HPA would present another possible hazard and a shop would be dumb to do the fill.
I’m with Walter on this one (as I’m sure he knew the thread would cover the stupidity of using O2). There’s a time when non-newbies ought to stop asking dumbass questions like they just got to the site by accident. With all the overdrawn safety posts about nano grams of oil causing meltdowns in the vicinity of HPA…this was a dumb question considering the source (non-newbie)…
Makes sense….he already knows some of the dialog…..
Occurs to me we’d best get it all done on the first take……
Doug Owen
I think sirj should play himself…… (and do his own stunts).
Now, if he got it on video thats a different matter….. 😆 😆
Now yer talkin’…..cable rights, DVDs, residuals rolling in…..
Who we gonna get to play the part of the new guy?
Doug Owen
Yeah, could be that he read that and went straight out and filled up with oxygen.. 😳
Now, if he got it on video thats a different matter….. 😆 😆
Could well be, don’t really know either of the gents in question. I’m just responding to the question asked and first answer given. The other fellow isn’t going to be the only guy to read it, innocent types could take it seriously….I see nothing to indicate they should do otherwise between ‘is is OK to use this Oxygen in a PCP?’ and ‘go for it’. When seemed like it was a fish or troll move of some sort, it made even less sense to me.
Just calling it as I see it, I guess. History and humor are fine and all, but when basic safety issues can be misinterpreted…..maybe time for a rediculous answer rather than a dangerous one?
Doug Owen
well said Tef
I presumed you missed this at the end of the original post.
Nope, did not miss that but thought it demanded an equally idiotic response albeit somewhat irresponsible! 🙂
as Wok said…. Joe should know better than that
Walter….
like telling a classmate that has obviously been sleeping that yes 2+2=5
I presumed you missed this at the end of the original post.
Pabs, which bit?
im just asking scuba shops if they can fill this tank to a high pressure so that i can use it as a refill station.
then why ask such a foolish question?
Then why give such a horse shit answer? That ‘go for it’ advice is just plain irresponsible. Not everyone is clued into the joke…..some poor fool could take you for being honest.
No questions are really foolish, some answers go way way past that.
Doug Owen
Joe has had PCP airguns for a long time, should have read all he could with respect to discussions of silicone divers grease, the filling of PCPs with other gases, the discussions of the pics of blown up guns.
This ain’t no newbie and frankly the questions when foolish are exactly that foolish and do not deserve much of a response.
so there is indeed a history behind the horse shit answer.
Walter…
I presumed Grumpy had not read the last bit..
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A normal tank comes with about 2400 psi
Here is the color code for medical use tanks in the United States.
Oxygen – Green
Nitrous Oxide – Blue
Carbon Dioxide – Gray
Helium – Brown
Nitrogen – Black
Air – Yellow
Link to full report of medical gas mix-ups and color codes, at least 7 deaths.
http://www.usp.org/pdf/EN/patientSafety/pSafetyMedicalGases.pdf
Go to page 4 for United States and Canada medical compressed gas color codes.