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Andy, If you come in with the senario you spelled out... YES i will top your tanks. Because you told me that the tanks contained He and O2 I would request a trimix cert. If you didn't tell me what the tanks contained I would make the assumtion it was only air. I don't anilize tanks as they come in for a fill!! By you telling me what was in the tank you place a certin amount of liability on me so now you need to fill out the waver and mark the tanks with the MOD and contents. Your anilizer or eather of the two in the shop or for that matter mine or the guy down the street... I don't care what anilizer you use as long as YOU anilize your tanks and sign the waver. As for no O2 clean, You added the O2. When you brought the tanks in the FO2 was <40%. No problem!! As for the duct tape I will supply you with that and a perminant marker to write on it with. No PROBLEM!!! At 09:38 AM 8/7/97 -0700, you wrote: >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'. > > Bill (aquadart) Bott -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send list subscription requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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