This is the first time I need to refill my tank but my fbo is quoting $80 for a refill. Can I use medical oxygen? Any other option rather than an $80 cost each refill. I live in CT. Thanks for any advice you may have.
This is the first time I need to refill my tank but my fbo is quoting $80 for a refill. Can I use medical oxygen? Any other option rather than an $80 cost each refill. I live in CT. Thanks for any advice you may have.
According to the welding shop where I got my tank filled, the only difference between the medical and the welding oxygen is that the medical oxygen goes through some extra FDA checks. I have medical oxygen in my tank. 60 cu ft tank, $25 to fill with medical oxygen. Next time I'll go with welding, but that will probably take a while for me to empty. Go to a welding shop.
I'll have to try the medical refill, did you need a perscription ?
Nope, not needed, at least not here. But there's no reason to go for a medical oxygen refill according to the guy I talked to - it all comes from the same tank. What you're buying with medical oxygen is the assurance that it's got the appropriate purities, whereas that's not checked on welding oxygen.
I'm just getting into this now having just bought o2 tank. I've seen those threads before and found them quite useful.
Unfortunately the welding shops around here won't do it. NYS has some weird law about needing a prescription.
I have had success with Fire Equipment store. Hydrostatic, cleaning and refill for 15cu is going to be about $45. So I'm guessing the refill would be about $15.
I've got a dive shop really close to me. That's where I'm going first when I need a refill. (the Fire Equipment shop is 50 min round trip)
Yeah... I've seen that warning in those threads... and that they mix O2 and other stuff. I'll be sure to confirm with them that I'm getting pure O2.Bob be careful. I dive and the dive shops that I have used can fill tanks with compressed air NOT O2
Look around for the supplier that the welding shops use for tier tanks and go there. Here in MN you do need a prescription to refill a medical tank (different valve/regulator attach fitting) but at the big O2 supplier you get the same stuff regardless of what tank you bring in.
Call me the silly boy, but I am supremely amused that anyone would ever suggest that you need a prescription to buy oxygen.