I was taking the overfills for granted, after all when you are filling 
your own tanks... I put in them whatever is available in the banks. If 
they have some really hot banks, I will live with a slightly lower PP02 
for a fat fill.

Did you people hear that out there? Not only do I fill "dirty, unclean" 
tanks with partial pressure fills, I also crank those babies out. What do 
you have to say about that, you bunch of rule toting hypocrites? HUH? I 
can't wait to hear all you "section 3, part B, subtitle E, paragraph 3" 
assholes start spouting off about this spectacularly common practice. 
Lets hear it, you fools.

Why a cascade? Well, it seems a shame to turn in a ox tank with 4-500 psi 
in it. With a 3 or 4 tank cascade you can practically empty those 
suckers. But if you've got money coming out of your butt like those 
rebreather assholes out there, who the fuck cares?

   Jim

On 8/12/97 8:03 PM Steve Lindblom wrote:

>CObb wrote
>>OK, enough of this hyperbole. Here's the real solution to this situation:SNIP
>
>You know, the really funny thing about this post is that while it sounds
>like a joke, it is absolutely right; the "good old boys club" is the
>easiest, most cost effective way to cut through the bullshit.
>
>We've got a dive shop a ways from here that has mild techie pretensions,
>Northeast Divers near Boston. If I am to believe what I hear, they are
>routinely doing overfills for half the divers I run into. But when I
>stopped in, on a trip down that way, with a couple LP steels, and asked the
>girl if she could run them up to a modest 3000 psi, she gave me a filthy
>look as if I'd just asked her to palpate my hemorrhoids, and launched into
>a prim little lecture about the evils of overfilling and how "we don't to
>that here". OK, I guess they have a right to save the good treatment for
>regulars, but I wish they'd spare the rest of us the outraged act.
>
>>1. Assemble your own cascade system. If you don't know how, you shouldn't
>>be doing it anyway.
>
>Though why a cascade? You don't need for nitrox, and a booster makes more
>sense for trimix. The only thing you really need a cascade for is mixing on
>a grand scale, or bottling 80%+, and even then the cascade isn't going to
>get you  reliably much over 2000 psi.
>
>
>
>
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