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"Dillon Pyron" <dmpyronINVALID@austin.rr.com> wrote in message
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> Thus spake "Limey" <davidflies@noatt.crapnet> :
>
>>
>><jarrells@jarrells.cjb.net> wrote
>>
>>
>> I bought a
>>> used tank (Catalina) at a local dive shop for $90. Don't buy a tank
>>> made before 6/88 because most used a weak alloy and most dive shops
>>> won't fill them.
>>
>>This is simply not true.
>>
>
> Agreed. I've got an 87 tank. The shop that usually does the fills
> also does the VIPs and runs an eddy current every time. I do need to
> take it in for a hydro.
>

Lee already answered, but there were lots of tanks produced before '88 that
didn't use th inferior alloy. There's a list available.

LD.

Thus spake BarryNL <no@spam.com> :

>Douglas W. "Popeye" Frederick wrote:
>> <jarrells@jarrells.cjb.net> wrote in message
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>>
>>
>>>I bought a
>>>used tank (Catalina) at a local dive shop for $90. Don't buy a tank
>>>made before 6/88 because most used a weak alloy and most dive shops
>>>won't fill them. There are a lot of these on eBay. All Catalina tanks
>>>are good, but it's hard to convince a tech who is afraid it will
>>>explode in his face.
>>
>>
>> Need to find yourself a real diveshop.
>
>Don't you have the machines there where you just hook up the tank
>yourself and throw coins in until its full?

What's the value of filling the tank with coins?
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dillon

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"Dillon Pyron" wrote in message
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> What's the value of filling the tank with coins?

Make it more negatively buoyant?

Dillon Pyron wrote:
> Thus spake BarryNL <no@spam.com> :
>
>
>>Douglas W. "Popeye" Frederick wrote:
>>
>>><jarrells@jarrells.cjb.net> wrote in message
>>>news:1126182495.082730.31410@z14g2000cwz.google groups.com...
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>I bought a
>>>>used tank (Catalina) at a local dive shop for $90. Don't buy a tank
>>>>made before 6/88 because most used a weak alloy and most dive shops
>>>>won't fill them. There are a lot of these on eBay. All Catalina tanks
>>>>are good, but it's hard to convince a tech who is afraid it will
>>>>explode in his face.
>>>
>>>
>>> Need to find yourself a real diveshop.
>>
>>Don't you have the machines there where you just hook up the tank
>>yourself and throw coins in until its full?
>
>
> What's the value of filling the tank with coins?

Better bouyancy characteristics?

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