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Old 2007-12-04, 8:31pm
Tannise Tannise is offline
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I'm in the East Bay as well. I get my oxy from a welding supply in Dublin. I think I originally paid $100 to purchase the tank - it's a 125. I pay $20 per exchange. The guys at the shop are really terrific. They get the tank from the trunk for me and put the new one in. I did ask about delivery so I could get a larger tank and was told that if they are caught by police or fire delivering industrial oxy to a residential neighborhood - there are large fines. Don't know if they were just trying to get out of delivering to a small account, but even when I asked about a delivery fee, still got the same answer.

When I first started lampworking, I really blew through the oxy until I learned to fine tune my flame, now my oxy lasts me much longer than before. I find that I have much better heat control now and don't usually need a big flame hissing oxy all the time.
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