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Hi Bill; I have a couple of questions about your policy. Specifically, consider the following scenario. I have a set of doubles that I have put my own He and O2 in. Now I walk into a dive shop and say, "Just pump air on top of this". And because I am a good guy and I don't want any He or O2 leaking back into their cascades, I tell them the contents of the tanks. 90% of the shops down here won't fill them, even if they have 1 way check valves and O2 compatible air. Now lets see how I fit into your equation below. Bill Bott wrote: ......some stuff deleted ..... > I spelled it out before but here it is again : > > 1) You must be certified for the gas requested Ok, I requested air and here is my padi open water card. (by the way, I am trimix certified) > > 2) The tanks must be current for both Visual and Hydro Yep, no problem. Just hydro'd last week. > > 3) If Oxygen is to be added they must comply with ONE OR MORE > agencies > standards (To put it bluntly the tank must be stickered for Oxygen > service > within the last 12 months). Hmmm, Nope, I haven't asked for any O2 to be added. > 4) If tanks are filled with a gas other than air the customer > MUST analyze > the tanks and sign a waver stating the FO2 and MOD of the gas before > leaving with the gas. This one is a little tougher. Lets see, at the end of the air fill, the tanks WILL be filled with a gas other than air, so I pull out my own analyser and sign for the gas. > > 5) The tanks MUST be labeled with the contents and MOD if they > contain other than air. hmmm, yep, the tanks both have black duct tape on the bottom telling me they are bottom mix and there is a little piece of grey duct tape at the top of each tank that now says, "14/45 - 290" > If you feel that is to restrictive TUFF!!! My tanks meet this set of > requirements. And if I mix gas for you at the dive shop YOURS WILL > TOO!!! > I guess by your tone I won't find you at the shops in N. C. if you > think I'm unreasonable. No, I don't think you are unreasonable, if this is truly your policy. Unfortunately, there are many dive operations that spell out a policy like this, then when I comply with each and every item, they still won't top off my tanks with air. -- Regards, Andy W. Barclay. abarclay@po*.ka*.or* Always a UNIX Evangelist (and sometimes a system and network architect) Wyszkowski's Second Law: Anything can be made to work if you fiddle with it long enough. -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send list subscription requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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