Quote: (Originally Posted by
Ant Slegg)
What I am interested in knowing is:
1) Has anyone got experience of getting cylinders filled (by commercial dove shops) that lack that all important official looking sticker?
2) Has anyone got any experience of O2 cleaning cylinders/valves etc. themselves? (will a dive shop accept a home made sticker?)
Ant,
I'm sure this was discussed a few times in the good old days of Scuba-UK. It'll be in the archives (at
The Drogon Network [Search Scuba-UK and NDG]).
As I remember it, if you do the course, you can buy the stickers and clean your own cylinders. If you have the right stickers, who is to know that you did it yourself? I could be wrong - this is in the dim and distant past.
FWIW, as I'm in the UK and cleaning is easy to arrange, I grumble about the cost and hassle of O2 cleaning, but I'm not willing to forego it. I doubt my insurance would pay up if something blew up because my kit wasn't O2 clean and I can't readily afford to replace all my kit (contrary to the rumours ;-). There's also the potential for third party liability.
On that note, I'm off to good old Deep Dive to get a twinset cleaned. Hopefully it'll be the last time (not a trip to DD, which I always enjoy, but cleaning the wife's twinset :-).
Cheers,
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