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Ronnie, I've got two of the same tanks, I believe. They are made by Luxfer and are composite. DOT has given Luxfer an exemption that allows them to test the bottle in u/w use. I got two and recently had to return them for hydro. 45 cu ft and 4500 psi eleven pounds with valve. I've seen them in doubles configuration. I use them for OC bailout on deep dives. They are light and carry lots of gas. Luxfer has in testing now a carbon fiber bottle with no metal liner or with a kevlar-like liner, I don't know which they went with. High psi but large volume. Pony size bottles won't come for awhile. There are NO composite bottles DOT approved for U/W apps. (though we know many that are used successfully) except the conditional Luxfer 45 cubers. Luxfer is 10 minutes away from me. They got great composites. I plumbed a nice 18 cuber as a third gas bottle on the 155 rebreather for gas switches.xx On Sat, 23 Sep 1995, Ronnie Bell wrote: > > > On Fri, 22 Sep 1995, brad wrote: > > > I have been testing a prototype tank from Luxfer which is rated at 4500 psi, > > Tell me more, is it composite (I hope not), steel, titanium ?? > For us non-rebreather types big tanks are interesting. > r.b. > -- > Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@terra.net'. > Send subscription/archive requests to `techdiver-request@terra.net'. >
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