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By: 30th March 2019 at 04:44 Permalink - Edited 30th March 2019 at 12:15
-A few years ago I was taking my vintage roadster to a club meet at the Indianapolis race track and I find that my enclosed trailer has a puncture. The tire still has about half its air, so I drive about half a block to a gas station, they top it off (enough to go a block to a tire shop) with a WWII aircraft yellow oxygen bottle. I thought that was rather neat.
I wouldn't mind getting one to use as an emergency air source for when I'm away from home.
By: 30th March 2019 at 08:03 Permalink
-Back in the 1980's I worked for a organisation that was contracted to maintain some foreign registered executive BAe 1-11 srs400, they had all been around a bit so when we started doing the heavy maintenance we found a few odd repairs, illegal mods, lax maintenance and wrong parts installed. Among the components removed were the Oxygen bottles and these were sent to a workshop for hydrostatic testing and inspection where they looked for internal corrosion, occasionally a bottle would be scrapped for that reason but ultimately they all had a scrap life of 25 years so any getting close to 25 years were also scrapped, one of the three removed from one of these 1-11's was date stamped 1944, I would have loved to know where it had been during its life and what aircraft types it had been fitted to.
Richard
By: 31st March 2019 at 06:06 Permalink
-A few years ago I was taking my vintage roadster to a club meet at the Indianapolis race track and I find that my enclosed trailer has a puncture. The tire still has about half its air, so I drive about half a block to a gas station, they top it off (enough to go a block to a tire shop) with a WWII aircraft yellow oxygen bottle. I thought that was rather neat.
I wouldn't mind getting one to use as an emergency air source for when I'm away from home.
Saw a large aircraft one for sale a while back for $20.00. same size as used in a B17 etc, but painted Marine Blue like a Tigercat. Should have bought it... :(
New automotive ones are known as air pigs. Usually about 5 or 6gal size. People often paint a curly tail on one end & a snout on the other.
As for regular gas bottles like the one I posted, in the original thread on FB quite a few people said they'd seen really old ones still in use, including a 1911 & 1914.
By: 31st March 2019 at 15:59 Permalink
-My other half worked for a manufacturer of high-pressure gas cylinders for many years.
I asked one of her colleagues how old was the oldest re-certified and he said pre WW1, 1908 I think but it was years ago.
Bear in mind this isn't just in use but returned to the manufacturer, blasted, tested, repainted and stamped and certified for another X years service as good as new.
By: 31st March 2019 at 17:19 Permalink
-They get tested/stamped every 10 years here.
By: 1st April 2019 at 00:04 Permalink
-It depends on the gas here but never longer than 10 years. I didn't know - I asked since my last post.
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By: ZRX61 - 30th March 2019 at 00:04
Someone working at Tinker AFB spotted this today. Earliest test date was '44. Gonna start paying closer attention to gas bottles...