[TheForge] Oxygen/Acetylene Cylinder Tracking

Sat Apr 27 06:24:01 2002

Usually the date stamps are for high pressure cylinders. A "plus "after the 
date is five years, a "star" is ten.
I rarely get a O2 packing leaking, but over the years I have gotten quite a 
few acetylene cylinders with this problem. It must be a problem for the 
vendors also as they take them back. You can tighten the packing nut but 
then you can't turn it on and off if its too tight. Always stick your nose 
near the valve after hook up with the valve part way open as sometimes they 
wont leak when fully open. Soapy water in a spray bottle is best.
Larry Brown

At 11:43 PM 4/26/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>         Loren,  If you mean the date stamped on the bottle of the last major
>pressure test of the cylinder, I do believe folks take that seriously.
>Usually if the date is over five years old, they will not refill the tank
>until it is tested.  This is why I like to rent tanks as the maintenance
>issue is their problem.
>         Granted I still get leaking packings on occassion.
>
>Ralph
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Loren Patterson" <[email protected]>
>To: <[email protected]>
>Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 7:59 PM
>Subject: [TheForge] Oxygen/Acetylene Cylinder Tracking
>
>
> > I was just wondering if anyone knew the details as to the trackability of
> > oxygen and acetylene cylinders. I'm not sure if it's true because I heard
>it
> > from someone I was chatting with.. but I was just curious what anyone else
> > knew. This gent seems pretty convinced that cylinders in general are
> > actively tracked, but it seems kind of silly. What do you think?
> > - Loren
> >
> >
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