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Old 03-24-2005, 01:42 AM
barry123400 barry123400 is offline
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On the bottle.

Boneheaddoctor, most important as someone mentioned is if you can get it locally filled. Also About 40.00 of that auction price is shipping. Should be able to get one locally cheaper unless things have changed. See what the company that you would use to fill a bottle will do for you. In canada the supply is a monopoly. Only hobby oxygen bottles can be self owned and refilled. As of late you can own and have refilled any self owned mixed gas bottle for mig or tig use here but they make it difficult. The other reason to try to buy locally is some companys demand you pay for a hydro test even if bottle is fresh coded here. The games never end it seems. Also for our friend that thought of using compressed air as a replacement for oxygen. The resultant flame temperature would be so low in my opinion as to be useless for anything other than soldering at best. Plus with acetelene as the fuel base suspect still might be a smokey flame. With propane and compressed air best temperature obtainable is just adaquate for brazing or fairly low grade parts heating at best.

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