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From: ddrake01 I'm going to touch on a sore spot, but here goes. For those of you that do O2 clean your equipment, I have a question. Often one is out on the bayou, far, far away in your Xwing Star Wars fighter exploring an underwater habitat. It such case, finding a compressor, much less an O2 capatible compressor is just not going to happen unless its in your truck/trailer. If one brought one's own O2 and needed to fill Nitrox to get your desired decompression time, would the following senario work for mixing in a tank that is or isn't clean. A shop that I've visited fills w/o cleaning and with an hydrocarbon lubricanted compressor. They claim that you can fill safely as long as you fill very, very slowly. The reasoning is that if you use the O2 clean valve to throttle the O2 and keep the flow very small, that ignition temps won't be reached. The same goes for the "well filtered" air that comes from their compressor. A fill for a set of double 120s may take a couple of hours, but you can do this with your own tank of O2 in the field and either a compressor or your own set of tanks/banks. If you feel that this has any merit in INCREASING the safety of filling "dirty" tanks, please reply. I'm most interested in the opinions of those who have pumped a cubic mile and have seen some accidents. Anyone who has other safety minded improvements for using "dirty" tanks and oily air please let me know. Thanks DAVID DRAKE AHDNN1A.DDRAKE01@ED*.CO* ROMULUS, MICHIGAN EDS/GM POWERTRAIN 8-375-5467 (GM NET)
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