Divers bottle/air rife filling

[RobF]

Stick to dive shops, £5 is a good deal, rip-off merchants near me slapped a £20 surcharge on my last fill for some spurious BS reason to do with it being a surface cylinder and requiring extra cooling/special handling / rarefied mountain air /chicken sacrifice to keep the dive god happy.

Are you sure that wasn't a visual inspection?

[Steyr]

Scuba tanks - surface air or otherwise, need a high pressure and they need filtered systems better than found on commercial plant.

The air is not Dry - but a lot of the moisture is removed. Humans are generally breathing this and need some moisture otherwise the throat would dry and they would dehydrate. Even snorkelling leaves your throat bone dry and that's normal air with water evaporating all around.

This is specialist kit needing regular servicing and probably engineer inspection to comply with safety and legislation/insurance conditions.

In the same way I would never use a stirrup pump to fill my gun, I would not use anything other than a proper dive compressor to fill my tanks

[Gerard c.]

Scuba tanks - surface air or otherwise, need a high pressure and they need filtered systems better than found on commercial plant.

The air is not Dry - but a lot of the moisture is removed. Humans are generally breathing this and need some moisture otherwise the throat would dry and they would dehydrate. Even snorkelling leaves your throat bone dry and that's normal air with water evaporating all around.

This is specialist kit needing regular servicing and probably engineer inspection to comply with safety and legislation/insurance conditions.

In the same way I would never use a stirrup pump to fill my gun, I would not use anything other than a proper dive compressor to fill my tanks

Thanks steyr got stirrup pump but never used as worried about the rifle and looking after it. ok I only have an air arms s200 but its all I could afford and I must look after It

[Solvo]

Are you sure that wasn't a visual inspection?

Oh yes. £7.50 for the fill, and a £20 surcharge for it being a surface cylinder which "has special filling requirements" wont be going back there again.
Nothing wrong with the cylinder, it was about 3 months old from BestFittings.
Was about to spend on a new Leatherman while i was in the shop but needless to say didn't.

Stick to the quality £5 fills.

[RobF]

Oh yes. £7.50 for the fill, and a £20 surcharge for it being a surface cylinder which "has special filling requirements" wont be going back there again.
Nothing wrong with the cylinder, it was about 3 months old from BestFittings.
Was about to spend on a new Leatherman while i was in the shop but needless to say didn't.

Stick to the quality £5 fills.

Definitely sounds like one to avoid!

[grumpygit]

Definitely sounds like one to avoid!

Name and shame so no one else gets caught out, think i would have asked where this information comes from.

[Solvo]

Name and shame so no one else gets caught out, think i would have asked where this information comes from.

http://www.blueoceandiving.co.uk/
In Maidstone.

I challenged it, and he gave some crap about special filling requirements though didn't seem to know what he was talking about, and pointed out the register automatically added the charge (when her set the cylinder type filled to 'surface')
So after a fruitless discussion i told him I knew he was talking bollocks, forget about the multitool i asked about and id get the tank filled elsewhere in future.

[grumpygit]

http://www.blueoceandiving.co.uk/
In Maidstone.

I challenged it, and he gave some crap about special filling requirements though didn't seem to know what he was talking about, and pointed out the register automatically added the charge (when her set the cylinder type filled to 'surface')
So after a fruitless discussion i told him I knew he was talking bollocks, forget about the multitool i asked about and id get the tank filled elsewhere in future.

Good for you, sounds like he was talking out of his rear end .

[angrybear]

Oh yes. £7.50 for the fill, and a £20 surcharge for it being a surface cylinder which "has special filling requirements" wont be going back there again.
Nothing wrong with the cylinder, it was about 3 months old from BestFittings.
Was about to spend on a new Leatherman while i was in the shop but needless to say didn't.

Stick to the quality £5 fills.

What exact details did they give when you told them they were talking utter arse water ?

As with incorrect info given at Post Offices, if you & I don't challenge it, we only have ourselves to blame.