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john of wessex

Joined: 18 Jun 2007
Posts: 2130

Posted: Mon Jul 08, 13 8:10 pm Post subject:
I'm told that the sort of bottles BOC supply their gas in - Oxygen atc for welding make excellent tube headers for small water tube boilers (The sort of thing you want in your steam launch) There is a small WTB abandoned next to the Canalside Café at Bradford on Avon if inspiration is needed

Nature'sgrafter

Joined: 22 Feb 2012
Posts: 527
Location: Sanday , Orkney

Posted: Mon Jul 08, 13 9:08 pm Post subject:
just find someone who sells the full bottles they normally ask for a deposit so that they are returned. Hence if offered some for free they should smile and thank you for the extras.

onemanband

Joined: 26 Dec 2010
Posts: 1473
Location: NCA90

Posted: Mon Jul 08, 13 10:57 pm Post subject:

Most stockists will take their brand of bottles back. Some might take back other brands.
I've cut up 2 bottles. First was a bugger to remove valve - steel bar thru bottom of bottle (to brace it) and scaffold tube on wrench. 2nd bottle valve came off with just wrench.
I've cut them straight after filling with water - no air = no explosion
The water that results from bottle is pretty nasty as are the fumes when you first burn them (unless you remove all the paint)

gregotyn

Joined: 24 Jun 2010
Posts: 2201
Location: Llanfyllin area

Posted: Tue Jul 16, 13 1:45 pm Post subject: gas cannister recycling

There was a tv prog about a surfing couple who started a sustainable lifestyle of surfing ang making redundant gas cylinders into wood burners, selling in the top stores in UK. they were very popular, doubtless still going! Based in Cornwall, but were fetching these things from all over the UK from the various sites where they were sold off after they became unsuitable for their intended gas holding purpose.

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