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  • UK users of disposable gas cylinders

    From Abandoned_Trolley@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jun 29 22:20:54 2022
    I dont know if there's any UK users on here, but I would be interested
    to know what you do with discarded single use gas cylinders - the small
    ones which you buy in places like Machine Mart ...


    The guy in Machine Mart says that they just go in to "normal" landfill,
    and the guy down at the local tip had no idea, but I would have thought
    they can be recycled ?

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  • From Richard Smith@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jun 30 07:55:38 2022
    Commercially it's thought decent / almost-mandatory to make holes in
    scrapped air cylinders and anything else which could explode violently
    with rising temperature in a furnace if recycled.

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  • From Snag@21:1/5 to Richard Smith on Thu Jun 30 06:50:42 2022
    On 6/30/2022 1:55 AM, Richard Smith wrote:
    Commercially it's thought decent / almost-mandatory to make holes in
    scrapped air cylinders and anything else which could explode violently
    with rising temperature in a furnace if recycled.


    I use one of those small hand held torches occasionally . I also keep
    a couple of the cylinders around and refill them from a 30 lb pre-OPD
    tank . It's not illegal to refill them , but it IS illegal to transport
    them if they have been refilled .
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  • From bob prohaska@21:1/5 to Richard Smith on Sat Jul 2 02:18:41 2022
    Richard Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
    Commercially it's thought decent / almost-mandatory to make holes in
    scrapped air cylinders and anything else which could explode violently
    with rising temperature in a furnace if recycled.

    I'd think fuel gas cylinder are considered hazardous waste so long as
    they're intact. Can't tell by looking that they're empty. But, I'm
    from California 8-)

    bob prohaska

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  • From Abandoned_Trolley@21:1/5 to bob prohaska on Sat Jul 2 08:13:06 2022
    On 02/07/2022 03:18, bob prohaska wrote:
    Richard Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
    Commercially it's thought decent / almost-mandatory to make holes in
    scrapped air cylinders and anything else which could explode violently
    with rising temperature in a furnace if recycled.

    I'd think fuel gas cylinder are considered hazardous waste so long as they're intact. Can't tell by looking that they're empty. But, I'm
    from California 8-)

    bob prohaska


    I should have clarified in the OP that these are argon or CO2 cylinders
    - but thanks anyway ...
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