**sigh** the best reason to get a concentrator if you lampwork

Check out this thread at wetcanvas about an oxygen tank exploding in someone's car:

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Moral of the story: Do NOT transport an oxy tank in a closed in vehicle. Use a truck, and keep the tank upright!!

Eeek.

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Kandice Seeber
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On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 14:29:40 -0400, Kandice Seeber wrote (in message ):

I didn't even know that you could go buy oxygen and pick it up yourself. Admittedly, the oxygen I'm using is to help me breathe, but I just call the guy with the green tanks, and it "magically" appears in my living room the next day.

BTW, the portable oxygen things they sell for people to take shopping have all kinds of safety features so they can't blow up. So far, I've managed to avoid having one. I just can't bear the thought of having to take one with me when I go places. (Yes, I know it's inevitable someday; but the longer I can put it off, the better)

Kathy N-V

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Kathy N-V

It's always puzzled me, because except for purity torching oxygen and medical oxygen are the same...tanks and all. Well, okay, bigger tanks usually. And yet I know of many areas where welding supply-type oxygen guys won't deliver if you don't live someplace zoned commercial. That's certainly true where I am now, and most of the Phoenix East Valley. But back in PA my trusty welding company delivered to me on demand (24 hours notice). Sometimes I took tanks in to be exhanged (if I'd had a brain fart and forgotten that the connected tank was my last of 3), but mostly I got delivery. Here, I have to do it ALL by myself. Ugh.

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Karen_AZ

They also will shoot through steel bulkheads, according to the "shipboard safety" lecture I got in Corps School. The "best story" about it, was a tank that some fumblefingers dropped, knocking off the cap-- it shot through two ship compartments and a hapless sailor between the first and second bulkhead.... Moral: secure the tank properly before moving.... Kaytee "Simplexities" on

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Kaytee

The main reason they don't like to deliver in residential areas is those areas are way off their routes. Also, they are used to delivering several tanks of various gases per location on a regular basis and dropping off one or two tanks occasionally isn't worth it to them. The place I get my O2 doesn't run a truck near me. They said they would deliver, but the extra charge was more than the tanks.

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Louis Cage

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