kebrown
Well-Known Member
About 6 months ago I bought an aluminum 20 lb CO2 tank on line for my kegging set-up. I went to get it filled at a local gas retail place. They could not fill it while I waited but told me they could take my tank and exchange it for a full tank for the same price. I had read that this was a common practice on this forum so I exchanged my tank. I went back and exchanged it twice sence then and everything was working great. However, Saturday I checked my tank and it was almost out of gas. The gas place I had been using was closed on Saturday so I call around and found one that was open until noon. I put the empty tank in my car and drove 30 miles to the other business to get my tank filled. I gave the man my tank to be filled. He examined the tank and told me he could not fill the tank because its test date had expired. The test date was back in 2001. I was very up set to say the least. I could hardly wait to go back to the original place (Roberts Oxygen) to find out why they had broken the law and filled a tank that was out of date. They informed me that the law gave then 10 years between inspections on their rental tanks. Does anyone know if this is true? I made them exchange my tank with one in date (within 5 years) for me be be allowed to have it filled at other business. It pissed me off because if I had moved or they had gone out of business I would have been stuck with an out of date tank. I wanted to share this experience with others. In so much as others will not be stuck in the sane situation.