Damn good video. Haven’t welded in years and getting everything started back up. Came looking for some simple tank info to freshen up. And came out with a lot more useful information 🤙🤙🤙
This is one of those things that is totally irrelevant to me right now, but I'll need at some point in the future when i delve into this. Good to have for future reference
@@DereksWorkshopAndProjects It's funny, I watched that video yesterday and then noticed an air-gas welding supply store on my trip to church. Just another mental note for later
Where I am in Central California, almost all the bottles have names on the neck, the weldibg supplies don't care, you may just have to pay a small fee to have it painted if it's not in their colours, but that's a recent thing for my welding supply. I've bought all my cylinders used, maybe 10 at this point, and I've never had a problem exchanging them, although with my 300 cu ft cylinders I did have to sign something for the dot saying I am the one who own them, not sure what that's about.
A blank neck ring is a customer owned bottle. However I have never had an issue turning in a bottle that had markings on the neck ring. Apparently most places don’t care unless the neck ring says Airgas Matheson praxair exc the big ones.
I got a 125 c25 full in north Ga. For around $300. I just swapped it for $25, same dealer. This one has less gas, about 1500# vs 1900#. I’ll see what they do next swap.
What I've been trying to better understand is how to know how many CF (cubic feet) of Argon are in my #4 ( 125 CF ) Argon cylinder as the PSI decrees. Like now I'm at about 1000 PSI now I'm sure there are a lot more than 1/2 of the starting CF of 125, because with my understanding the higher the presser the less additional Cubic Feet of gas (in my case Argon) can be added to the cylinder per PSI increase. So with my practicing of TIG welding it got down to 1000 PSI faster than I would have hoped it would have, but it should take longer to go down as I get lower in presser. Is there a chart to show the cubic feet left in a cylinder relative to the PSI? I've been looking & looking can't seem to find one. Now maybe I'm just wrong about being able to compress more gas per PSI increase at lower PSI, & less increase of CF per PSI as the presser get higher.
I just priceed buying my first and the 175 tank filled I'd $390 and refill when needed is $75 from the local air gas store and that's in store pick up I didn't ask about delivery
I got a contract for a size 16 botttle, i paid $107 for 3 years for the contract. $80 every time I need it filled, for me it’s a no brainer, bottle would cost $400 and some odd dollars to buy and I likely won’t even get it refilled
If you were only going to weld for 3 years, that makes sense, but if you’re going to weld for years and years to come. In 12 years, you’d have paid for the bottle. It is, of course, easier to pay $107 but if you can afford the $400, I say why not!
As soon as he mentioned tractor supply I stopped the video to type this I bet he's going to say because they are ridiculously expensive they're like five times more expensive than the mom and pop shop that should actually be more. They're absolutely ridiculous it's embarrassing how expensive
