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Our local fire shop charges $18. No vis stickers included, but a vis is part of every hydro. Not sure if they fill or not as I never send the valve with the tank.
$12.00 for the hydro, I take it to the people that do the test. They charge me $18.00 if I use my name, $12.00 if I use my company name when I drop them off. Than $12.00 for the VIP and air fill, at my local dive shop.
Dive shops usually charge approx. $35 for hydro/VIP/air fill with a 1-2 wk. turnaround. The hydrostatic tests are done by a 3rd party company.
One shop will run a "special" a couple of times a year that provides the same services for $15-$20.
If you take your tanks directly to the 3rd party company, then you can cut out the "middle man" fees but traveling to/from the company location might be a tad inconvenient. Turnaround time should be much faster (1-2 days?).
$55 for a hydro/VIP/fill is very high. I would think that a shop could only get away with charging that much in NYC.
$16 per tank at the hydro facility. (used to be $12 a few years ago, but they went up like everything else does..)
LDS I think charges $25 or $30 for hydro. But they have to pay an employee to take it down to hydro facility and then go pick it up. So they really aren't making any money on it after you factor in employee and vehicle costs for two trips.
$15 O2 cleaning at LDS (I think.... I forget how much exactly)
$10 visual at LDS
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Originally Posted by koozemani
