Anyone work with CO2 cylinders/sales

Anyone work with CO2 cylinders/sales

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Turn7

Original Poster:

23,607 posts

221 months

Saturday 20th July 2019
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Need some guidance please...

Derek Withers

869 posts

186 months

Sunday 21st July 2019
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I worked in paintball for years so may be able to help.

Lotus Notes

1,200 posts

191 months

Sunday 21st July 2019
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Yep, what do need to know?

Turn7

Original Poster:

23,607 posts

221 months

Sunday 21st July 2019
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Need to understand the TRUE law in regard to filling cylinders and cylinder ownership.

Company I know was filling any cylinders offfered - from BOC to Air Liquid to dodgy fish tank untested type bottles.

They had some bottles retested by a "commercial" tester, but the cyclinders are still engraved with another companies details.

The tester said that evryone nicks everyone elses cylinders and thats ok...

But it just not...

Id like to find the truth in black and white to prove to this compnay that altho they paid to refurb the bottles, they dont belong to them.....

If that makes sense.

Gary C

12,429 posts

179 months

Sunday 21st July 2019
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Hum, cant help you

Our cylinders each contain 150Te of liquid CO2, so they tend to stay on site smile

hman

7,487 posts

194 months

Monday 22nd July 2019
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As far as I know BOC cylinders are on a rental basis only, might be the same for air liquide too.

Normally the cylinders are refilled by the company that rents them out.

There are laws (TPED) that require a hydrostatic test every ten years. The rental company should be keeping in top of this as well.

AndyAudi

3,040 posts

222 months

Monday 22nd July 2019
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Used to work with compressed air co.

Cylinders are nearly always only rented out meaning someone will either be paying for them or has paid a lost fee for them. (Lost ones do turn up periodically from different sources)

Anything that was taken out of service with us was rendered unusable.

anonymous-user

54 months

Monday 22nd July 2019
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The bigger gas companies have staff that go round the place hunting for cylinders that the user can't show have been sourced officially - i.e. rented

BOC/Linde calls them Field Cylinder Officers

There are various bits of legislation and codes of practice about filling cylinders that are covered in these (and other) publications by the British Compressed Gas Association)

http://www.bcga.co.uk/assets/publications/CP32.pdf

http://www.bcga.co.uk/assets/BCGA%20CP%2043%20-%20...

I suspect that at least one of the bigger companies knows of the existence of this 'rogue' filling operation already