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It needs to be reverse flow pressure tested to 0.4 bar (from memory) to see if the lever/button/sleeve still activates.
BOC Gases used to do a free safety inspection, don't know if they still do or not. If it's for business use I would just replace it, if it's just your own use get it checked if you can; should be fine. You could always sell it Brightspark on ere...he'll get another 20 years out of it!
BOC Gases used to do a free safety inspection, don't know if they still do or not. If it's for business use I would just replace it, if it's just your own use get it checked if you can; should be fine. You could always sell it Brightspark on ere...he'll get another 20 years out of it!
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nahh i wouldnt buy them i get them given .mine are over 30 years now still going strong . if u want to test the flashback arestors fill the hoses turn off the bottles at the key and remove the regulator . the arrestor will get backflow and pop the lever out . refit reg and reset arrestor jobs a gudunIt needs to be reverse flow pressure tested to 0.4 bar (from memory) to see if the lever/button/sleeve still activates.
BOC Gases used to do a free safety inspection, don't know if they still do or not. If it's for business use I would just replace it, if it's just your own use get it checked if you can; should be fine. You could always sell it Brightspark on ere...he'll get another 20 years out of it!
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It's the replacement date, should really be inspected annually if you follow the codes of practice
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sure whats the worst that could happen?
It all goes bang and there are consequences which you can't cope with because they involve other people and their lawyers and insurance companies and a great deal of loot.
Because you haven't followed the book, or can't show you've followed the book, your insurance company doesn't want to know and cancels the policy claiming breach of contract - there'd probably be some argy-bargy involving loss adjusters and investigators on the way there.
Financial ruin, seizure of property, divorce, rejection by children (who change their names to escape it) and society at large, prison sentence, chronic ill health due to stress, letters to The Times, changes to the law to prevent this outrage happening again - sort of.
However, were you sufficiently resourceful, you could see this lot unfolding and hoof it for a new life in Liberia or somewhere.
The probable consequences are nothing much, but more painful than coughing up and having it recorded that the damned thing was officially approved as good or chucking it and getting a new one officially considered to be good, whether it was or not.
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i meant it sarcastically
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ffs im quaking in my boots
id better go out and renew all my gear and inform the insurance company who will trebble my premium . i wont be able to sleep tonight if i dont 
ffs im quaking in my boots
Still your uncalm spirit. The insurance company won't be open til tomorrow and wouldn't be interested anyways until a claim of a particular sort was made.
View all this as about as likely as consecutive lottery wins, except negative.
Of course, if you are of an unusually cautious disposition........
If course if it all goes bang there won't be any evidence left that they were out of date.......
As a regulator service technician of 25yrs I will not be binning my Oxy/acetylene regs when they pass the date stamp. I shall test them as I do now and keep on using them.
As a regulator service technician of 25yrs I will not be binning my Oxy/acetylene regs when they pass the date stamp. I shall test them as I do now and keep on using them.
ive got a few old regs that it would be usefull to have them officaly tested.
all of the places i deal with just want to sell me new singel stage crap things for about 30 quid, but the ancient 2 stage ones do a much better job are older than me and never played up
any suggestions on where chouldd send them ?
all of the places i deal with just want to sell me new singel stage crap things for about 30 quid, but the ancient 2 stage ones do a much better job are older than me and never played up
any suggestions on where chouldd send them ?
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If they are over 5 years old, anywhere you send them will just advise replacement 
but the gas pressure actualy stays where it's set, can go from a small welding torch to gas axe with 1/8th nossel with ether or anything in beteen it runs spot on.
new reg can't keep up with the 1/8th nossel on the axe and the pressure creeps to much on a weling torch h
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well as long as the regs dont creep and theres no leaks and u have flashback arestors fitted and u test them yoursself as i stated in earlier thread u will be ok. mine are old but ive only ever gone through 1 and a half acetylene bottles and 4 oxygen bottles . how many bottles would u go through in industry in 5 years use
but the gas pressure actualy stays where it's set, can go from a small welding torch to gas axe with 1/8th nossel with ether or anything in beteen it runs spot on.
new reg can't keep up with the 1/8th nossel on the axe and the pressure creeps to much on a weling torch h
the problem is those hatefull people with high viz and clipboards that have nothing better to do than justify there job by p*****g everyone else off.
they don't seem to like you testing stuff yourself, but if you have a bit of paper from anybodyelse.ltd saying it's fine that will do hoop jumped through. they take 1 look and go bother someone else
they have been through meany meany bottels of gas, same old story tho i can have a bottel for 6 weeks and not use it, then use 6 bottels in a week
they don't seem to like you testing stuff yourself, but if you have a bit of paper from anybodyelse.ltd saying it's fine that will do hoop jumped through. they take 1 look and go bother someone else
they have been through meany meany bottels of gas, same old story tho i can have a bottel for 6 weeks and not use it, then use 6 bottels in a week
You are in business then, so have no alternative but to replace them & have them tested annually by a "competent person", with certs to back it up (we have to finance the social utopia you know!). Seriously, it's that, or don't bother renewing your insurance policy...because they won't pay out in the event of something going wrong anywhere near your Oxy/Fuel equipment (anything to squirm out of it & that's A1 on the list!)
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but the gas pressure actualy stays where it's set, can go from a small welding torch to gas axe with 1/8th nossel with ether or anything in beteen it runs spot on.
new reg can't keep up with the 1/8th nossel on the axe and the pressure creeps to much on a weling torch h
Danny, out of interest you haven't changed from using 2 stage regs to 1 stage regs have you?
yep
but when you need a regulator all i seem to be abel to find off the shelf is singel stage.
i know i chould order some two stage regs but would thhey be any better in quality than the singel stage ones i've been getting ?
as said before i would happily pay good money to have my old regs tested / overhauled / rebuilt if that would tick all the required boxes.
it is anyoying that i've only ever had problems with regulators that are in date tho, banning stuff made in china would no dought be an inprovement
but when you need a regulator all i seem to be abel to find off the shelf is singel stage.
i know i chould order some two stage regs but would thhey be any better in quality than the singel stage ones i've been getting ?
as said before i would happily pay good money to have my old regs tested / overhauled / rebuilt if that would tick all the required boxes.
it is anyoying that i've only ever had problems with regulators that are in date tho, banning stuff made in china would no dought be an inprovement
its the type of creep that dose it's best to drive you insane with a gas welding torch.
you turn the torch down and the 02 pressure goes up and pop the torch goes out. never seem to be abel to keep the flame exactly as you want it. or am i just been over fussy and expecting to much from the regs
you turn the torch down and the 02 pressure goes up and pop the torch goes out. never seem to be abel to keep the flame exactly as you want it. or am i just been over fussy and expecting to much from the regs
