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Has something changed recently with Luxfer? Two years ago I sent back seven aluminum 80's (one at a time) with no money, after getting prior authorization from Luxfer. They cost me $17 each to ship UPS (no box, just a label on the tank itself), and I got seven brand new aluminum 80 back with no problem. One tank was less that ten years old, so I had to send that one to California (cost $35) instead of North Carolina, but even that one was no problem. I sent them without valves. All had failed visual plus. I sent no other money. Perhaps this was a time limited offer, but even at the time my local dive shops didn't know anything about the deal. > ---------- > From: Steve[SMTP:s_lindblom@co*.co*] > Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 10:20 AM > To: techdiver@aquanaut.com > Subject: 50 lbs of TNT, was Luxfer Cylinder Replacement Policy > Importance: High > > Not to nitpick your useful post, but I have been reading gradually > escalating equivilents, in pounds of dynamite or TNT, for the explosive > force in a SCUBA tank for some time now, starting out at about 2 lbs and > now up to your 50, to the point where I am wondering why we didn't just > drop all the old 6351-T6s on Iraq or Bosnia - at your figure they clearly > offer a bigger bang for both the buck and the lb. than most conventional > explosives. > > BTW, last thing I heard Luxfer was returning a singificant number of the > tanks sent to them, when Luxfer techs could not find the cracks that the > dive shop did, which amounts to an even worse deal - you pay shipping both > ways, and end up with the same old tank (which in many cases the dive shop > still refuses to fill!). Anyone thinking of taking them up on the deal > ought to check the track record of whoever condemned the tank first. > > Jerry wrote: > >Sustained Load Cracking in the crown threads is a very real and serious > >problem with aluminum cylinders of all makes. The equivalent explosive > >force is approximately equal to that of 50 pounds of 50% TNT going off. > >It can maim, kill and destroy everyone and everything in sight. > > > -- > Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. > Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. > -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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