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On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Ben Wiseley 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. Why don't you ask them? Mind you, you may get a very entertaining answer! I've asked in a similar situation, and been told something like "we don't want to risk mixing argon with breathing gas". To which my reply was "If you're worried about that, you're not qualified to operate a fill station of any type, let alone one that would use a booster". -- Art Greenberg artg@ec*.ne* -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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