recovery tanks

[njtinman]

my recovery tanks are old and need to be tested the supply house says they only do the ones the sell. has anyone had to dell with this problem?

[billg]

I have a fire extinguisher service company retest mine.

[hotrodrob]

Keep checking with the supply houses. Every now and then they do a cylinder exchange program around here. They take old bottles full or empty and give you a new or certifed bottle.

[beshvac]

I am confused.....I just take full tank to supply house and get new empty tank. they used to charge a fee to take R22 recovery tank....now its free..."Here Ya Go"???

[BaldLoonie]

Now they better be paying you for the R22!

[socotech]

Yea, we get paid a pretty penny for recovered r22.

[cehs]

I went to a dive shop one time. Scuba dive.....
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[njtinman]

i wonder if a welding supply will test them

[jtrammel]

For every 30lbs of r22 we exchange they sell us a virgin drum for $200 vs the $485 to buy a single drum. They don't care if the tank is out of date or not.

[klee7013]

For every 30lbs of r22 we exchange they sell us a virgin drum for $200 vs the $485 to buy a single drum. They don't care if the tank is out of date or not.

jtrammel do you mind saying what supply house does that. Seems like a pretty decent deal.
Even though we got 40 tanks that we split up in 4 different locations that we paid $425 after tax Hell only paying $200 for a new tank of r22 is a pretty good deal

[mbhydro]

Never tried it but would a propane distributor test recovery tanks? They have to pressure certify their tanks so they should be able to do it.

[davidj001]

welding gas supply house can do it

[trykonxlgold75]

The company that I used to work for was going to have one of our supply houses retest ours until they found out you could buy new tanks cheaper than the test. I dont know what you are paying to retest but they wanted something like $60.

[hvac wiz 79]

Why would you guys have old recovery tanks? What do you do when they get filled?

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[njtinman]

i sold the r22 in my tanks to a reclaimer so he took the tank to his work emptied it out and brought back my tank

[njtinman]

i just talked to a welding supply by me and he will do each tank for $22 each. that's a lot less than a new tank

[kevink1955]

Only problem with testing tanks is they fill them with water during the hydrotest process. If you ever intend to use them as reclaim tanks to hold refrigerant while servicing a system the tanks will need special processing that most welding supplys do not do.

You do not want wet tanks while doing service work

[njtinman]

last i knew they put the whole tank in water not water in the tank

[njtinman]

and also i thought if you put the tank into a vacuum it would boil off any mosture