Helium costs

[roakey]

Figured I'd update this note with a current datapoint. I just got a quote on a T (291cf) of He, what Linweld calls "High Purity" -- 99.998%

$55

For anyone in the Northern West, I encourage you to take a look at Linweld, significantly cheaper than any other outfit I looked at:

http://www.linweld.com/locations.asp

Roak

 

[MikeFerrara]

Figured I'd update this note with a current datapoint. I just got a quote on a T (291cf) of He, what Linweld calls "High Purity" -- 99.998%

$55

For anyone in the Northern West, I encourage you to take a look at Linweld, significantly cheaper than any other outfit I looked at:

http://www.linweld.com/locations.asp

Roak

Boy don't I wish!

The last time I got helium I took some industrial grade but I still paid over $40 which is half what I was paying for HP and UHP.

 

[roakey]

Mike, do you rent bottles?

Linweld also has an interesting "security deposit" offering... You pay a $225 "security deposit" for a T bottle and there's no rental fee. You "own" the bottle (fills are still via exchange) and when you turn the bottle back in, you get your security deposit back.

So though a significant outlay initially, in about 3-4 years you've ahead of the game in terms of rental, if you ever get out of the gas stacking business, you get all your deposit back.

I don't know if other gas companies offer this kind of setup, but being an individual blender, it works very well for me where I might go months at a time without mixing...

Roak

 

[MikeFerrara]

Mike, do you rent bottles?

Linweld also has an interesting "security deposit" offering... You pay a $225 "security deposit" for a T bottle and there's no rental fee. You "own" the bottle (fills are still via exchange) and when you turn the bottle back in, you get your security deposit back.

So though a significant outlay initially, in about 3-4 years you've ahead of the game in terms of rental, if you ever get out of the gas stacking business, you get all your deposit back.

I don't know if other gas companies offer this kind of setup, but being an individual blender, it works very well for me where I might go months at a time without mixing...

Roak

Some of my bottles are leased for like $100 for three years and some I rent for like $5/month