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Hi,

    Speaking of Argon, I'd like to lease a bottle and avoid the dive store's
cartel-like mark up.  Anyone know where or how I can get a fill whip to
transfer Argon from a welding style bottle to a K-valve (yoke) style scuba
tank?

                                                                        Thanks,

                                                                        Steve.

Kevin Connell wrote:

> 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
>
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>    is willing to pay for it)
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