pangaeamaposa
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For those who oxygenate with O2, where do you buy it? I am having trouble finding it locally.
This is what I was told, but every hardware store - including the big chains and the local ones - have stopped selling them.Hardware stores. With the blue propane and yellow mapp tanks for soldering torches. By plumbing stuff a lot of times.
This is what I was told, but every hardware store - including the big chains and the local ones - have stopped selling them.
Yeah, maybe I'll go this route. I was hoping to find those little red disposable tanks. I don't really brew enough to justify a big tank, but I would like to try oxygenating. Seems like it might not be worth the headache though.I just bit the bullet and bought a 5# tank from a welding gas supplier. It is definitely not cheap, but it will last me several years
There was a supply chain shortage about 10 months ago. I had to drive 40 miles to find a Lowe's that had any in stock, and there are at least 10 Lowes and equal number of 'Homers' within reasonable driving radius. Happy to report I'm seeing them locally now, after panic-buying a half dozen last Fall.This is what I was told, but every hardware store - including the big chains and the local ones - have stopped selling them.
I tried this approach and GenAir indicated they needed a prescription to exchange the skinny tank. I talked to a couple Doc friends and it was a pain to go that route. The good folks at GenAir gave me a credit to apply against the purchase of the small industrial O2 tank that will last a long time. I got a regulator online for about $20.the other alternative is to go on craigslist and pick up the thin candlestick ones used for medical oxygen. you can usually get those fairly cheap. sometimes even free. i dont know if you can get those filled/swapped at the usual gas places (the ones i noted above) but at minimum you can just find out where the old people get theirs and go there. its probably a swap system as well. likely gonna be a medical supply house that sells oxygen, wheelchairs, hospital beds for your home, canes, walkers,, etc etc. ask a local old person and they can probably tell you.
Same. I can't find it anywhere, and the big stores don't seem to ship it. I'm down to my last bottle too.This is what I was told, but every hardware store - including the big chains and the local ones - have stopped selling them.
You probably could have bought a 20 or 40 cu.ft. tank for about the same outlay.Happy to report I'm seeing them locally now, after panic-buying a half dozen last Fall.
I bought a medical tank from another homebrewer and it still had some in it. Before it ran it out, a friend who was on oxygen exchanged it for me. It will probably last me through the end of my time as a home brewer (I'm 65).
well that was exactly what i was implying when i said to go pick one up off craigslist. my old neighbor got one off craigslist after somebody died, so it still had gas in it. think he said he gave them 20 bucks.....some would see that as a challenge to be accepted....
Just be sure to secure your tank. (Always secure your tanks.)
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