Re: [APML] Forming Gas from where now??

[Philip Perkins <philip@astrocruise.com>]

This may be the easiest part of all - BOC, Air Products, Linde Gas, all 
supply forming gas. But they won't know what you mean by forming gas - tell 
them you want 92% Nitorogen and 8% Hydrogen.  No-one from outside the US 
ever had any gas from Lumicon in the first place - it could never shipped 
internationally.  (actually there was one silly thing that Lumicon did: to 
ship me an *empty* cylinder (knowing in advance that the gas could not be 
shipped internationally but the cylinder could)) So I paid considerable 
freight for the empty cylinder and when it arrived it was useless - the 
Lumicon cylinder is not a 'proper' cylinder - it is rated to only 300 PSI 
and if filled by any one of the gas supply companies it would blow it apart 
- their standard fill is usually to at least 200 Bar.  They prefer to fill 
only their own cylinders.  If asked to fill an 'alien' cylinder they insist 
(rightly) on testing it first (so as not to create a bomb).  But one thing 
is for sure: none of them will touch the Lumicon cylinder

--Philip


>-- Jim Ives <flyboy9990@earthlink.net> wrote:
>Does anyone know where to get forming gas from now? I'm left with a 
>cylinder that just ran out after my last hypering session and a fridge 
>full of Tech Pan and the old RG200 that I can't hyper!
>
>Jim Ives


Philip Perkins - philip@astrocruise.com
Wiltshire UK & Luberon France
Astrocruise - http://www.astrocruise.com


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