Welding CO/Argon tank question

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Our area you can buy acetylene bottles and the smaller weld mix gas bottles, but you have to lease the large oxygen and argon bottles, that`s where they rip you off:mad:
 
67Dart273 said:
This seems to be a fairly recent change--last 10 years?. I deal with "Ox arc" here. I took my bottles in--not fully empty, as I was concerned about the cert date and did not want to get stuck with the high cost of pressure cert. They told me they don't hang that on the customer anymore, with "owner" bottles. I've forgotten what all is "owner" the tiny 20/40 O2, the 80 O2 and what we used to call a 60 acet. Around here I either 122 or 150 bottles were or could be owner. Some used to be "lease" and some used to be "rent." Way back in the 70's there were PISSED customers who had had what they thought were 99 year leases on bottles, and "I guess" a merger/ buyout resulted in them becoming "20" year leases----and many were "up." We lost a few customers, over that deal.
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Yeah, I had a 20 year lease, oxy/acetylene set up. I thought that would last me forever. But I was a kid and what did I know? That lease has been up for 30 years now this month lol. Man, where does the time go?
 
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