What would you do with steel 72's?

[Campana]

I have a number of steel 72's, like 8 of em. People keep giving them to me. I tumble them, get them hydro'd, and use them for open water classes. I just don't need as many as I've got. Here's what I've got, what would you do with them?

Set of old doubles, 1/2" valves, with one yoke outlet (sell?)
Set of doubles with 3/4" valves and brand new isolation manifold (sell/use?)
6 regular steel 72's with current hydros and new valves (sell/use for deco/?)
2 old 72's not yet hydrod with 1/2" valves (sell/fix up and sell?)

get the picture? anybody want to buy one or more for a bargain price?

[ericfine50]

Use the ones with the 3/4" neck for doubles - always nice and a small package. Maybe sell a few and use one or two for an Pre-Dive Argon tank (to flush the suit)??

Oh the posibilities???

Eric :-)

[Ladydiver]

If you want to sell them, feel free to place an ad in the classifieds at:

Aqua Trader (http://www.aquatrader.com)

[voidware]

If you cut off the bottom they make great candy dishes or cereal bowls.

brandon

[Tavi]

Put a different amount of water in each, hang them up close to each other............

Awesome windchimes!! :dance:

[Campana]

Windchimes! Cereal Bowls!! What's the matter with you two, I ain't turning perfectly good STEEL into decorative or kitchen items! (I did take Ladydiver's suggestion and put em on sale on Aquatrader). Hope I get big bucks for em and you will eat your words about windchimes and bowls.

Campana, tank merchant to the world.

[Tavi]

Originally posted by Campana
I ain't turning perfectly good STEEL into decorative or kitchen items!

I agree completely......... Just having a little fun! :D
I hope you do well in your endeavors as a tank merchant!


Hmmmm,

Are the Doubles with the 3/4 valves and Iso manifold Yoke or DIN?

[Campana]

They're those convertable kind, the coolest kind if you aren't going 300 bar, which you wouldn't need on these tanks. The insert that makes them a yoke is removable with an allen wrench, then they're Din 200. By the way, the hydro dates are 98 and 00, and they have a + rating on both.

[voidware]

Windchimes. I could never have thought of that. It could aleviate the nostalgia that I feel during the winter. I love the satisfying bang of a steel tank, followed by the woosh of air and a string of profanities.

Don't you just love to dive.

brandon

[caverkevin]

I would use one for an argon storage bottle. Kinda nice for refills between dives. If you have some doubled up with good manifolds, dive them. I am getting ready to put together my third set. With and 11 pound v-weight they are great to dive. Stages....well too heavy for open water. Nice for O2 on cave dives, were it sits in the entance of the cave. As for selling them, could you take some poor fools money and live with yourself?? If they are really junk, cut the bottom off and make a bell.

KLJ

[SPEEDSTER]

wow, there's your answer! You could get 2(!) new uses for each tank. the top would become a bell, the bottom a bowl! who could ask for anything more?:out:

Mike

[WYDT]

Are 72's Low Pressure? If so one would definately make a great O2 deco bottle for cave diving.

I like the argon idea too!!

DSAO!

[Narc'd1]

I use mine for staging bottles...

[Campana]

Originally posted by WYDT
Are 72's Low Pressure? If so one would definately make a great O2 deco bottle for cave diving.

I like the argon idea too!!

They are 'very' low pressure, like 2200. I've got one that is rated at 1800 and is in use as an o2 bottle. Painted it John Deere Green.

DSAO!

[jonnythan]

You could send them to me!!

I'll pay shipping ;)

[daylight]

Dave,

Sounds to me like you got a good set of doubles, and some good stage bottles, and possibly some Argon bottles.

Getting rid of gear is imposible. The pile of stuff only grows.
That is the joy of diving, having a great big ol' pile of gear.

Larry

[maddiver]

Dave-

You do not ever want to use these for stage bottles (they are too heavy) and will overtax your buoyancy system (especially if you lose the drysuit or the wing during your dive). And there really is no real advantages to using them for this purpose. You can however use them for Cave only oxygen bottles (this has merit and is different than stages due to the fact that you will drop these fairly close to entrance and they remain negative when low (hence the use for oxygen bottle). Its not unusual to do a dive to the back of Devils system 100-110 min bt and do 20 min on oxygen bottle you got in the water with reading ~900 psi (using only 400 psi for the deco and getting out with 500).

Doubles- questionable....for fun around texas lakes i guess they would be ok, but they have no place in a cave or technical environ (especially due to the potential for rupture when overfilled of these tanks...the window at the fill station at Ginnie Springs was created by one of these that had not even reached rated pressure yet). Not much scares me about gear...but using these things anywhere near a filled or overfilled situation gives me the creeps.

Argon? For intermediate storage? Confusing. I would say not due to potential for an accident like happened to a Cave Diver from texas who died in JB by 'grabbing' a tank without oxygen content. Also Argon is exetremely narcotic......you'd be so buzzed at 15ft you couldn't function on pure argon.



Originally posted by daylight

Sounds to me like you got a good set of doubles, and some good stage bottles, and possibly some Argon bottles.

Larry