[TheForge] Ice rink

[Bruce .]

This is your gas supplier you're talking about?  Losing track of
cylinders is not a good thing, but  pales before failure to keep
cylinder inspections up to date.  I am very leery of management
changes.  Who knows what know-nothing might have got put in charge and
decided to save money by skipping the hydraulic tests!

ASAP, take a look at your current gas cylinders and see if you can
find the inspection info.  See if it looks like the ones you've got
have been tested recently enough to be okay.

Next -- if a leak is at the bottle valve and is NOT due to a problem
with the fitting on your regulator, the gas supplier CANNOT charge you
for that cylinder.  Inform them the minute you discover the problem
and get them to replace it.  If you have to fetch the cylinders
yourself, take a good CGA fitting, dead-headed it with a cap, and use
it to test the cylinder before you leave their premises.  A few drops
of detergent in water is generally safe for such testing, though you
should rinse it off with water afterwards.

On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 12:49 AM, Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer
<artgawk at thegrid.net> wrote:
> Point taken ! Thanks!
> That's why i asked, rather than tried it.
> I have dressed the poll/nipple before successfully when i'd run out of replacements.
> The problem is that the bottle's valve's seats are sometimes sorrowful abuse victims..
> It's a swap full-for-empties bottle system and after 9 (?) successive buy-outs and mergers since i've been a customer,
> They have no idea how many bottles they have out and what the serial #s are.
> Using teflon tape on threaded oxy fittings seems to be a common practice.
> I'll check Western, thank you.
-- 
Bruce
NJ