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Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 16:33:12 -0800
To: ben@wi*.co*
From: "Kevin Connell" <kevin@nw*.co*>
Subject: Re: booster pumps and gas...
Cc: techdiver@aquanaut.com
At 09:37 PM 3/13/2000 +0000, you wrote:
>My local dive shop has a booster pump.  They won't do Argon fills.  Is 
>this because
>1) they're too lazy to get a tank of Argon (which I'd do for them) or
>2) you have to do some eloborate "thing" to the booster pump to boost 
>Argon and then go back to boosting with Air, Oxy, etc or
>3) there's no fucking profit margin on Argon or
>4) I'm such a stroke that I couldn't possibly understand the answer to 
>this and I should go back to playing with lego's when not pissing in my 
>dry suit.

#1 and too stupid.  Most people pay about $1/ft3 which is a 300% markup for 
argon.

Sounds like you need a p-valve, too.


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  Kevin Connell <kevin@nw*.co*>

  NW Labor Systems, Inc
  http://www.nwls.com

  Res tantum valet quantum vendi potest.
  (A thing is only worth what someone else
   is willing to pay for it)

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