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I learned something new a week ago, and it just occurred to me to come here and mention it. This may not apply to your circumstances, or this may be old news to you, but I thought I would mention it anyhow.
I picked up a 5 lbs. CO2 tank off of Craigslist (very cheaply) awhile back, and have been trading it in at a local welding shop. It's close and the refill/trade price seemed reasonable.
While I was in the shop this last time I mentioned that I was looking to combine 2 regulators (One with a broken high pressure gauge, and a fully functional one) into a dual regulator, and I wanted to get their thoughts. The guy wasn't sure if that would work, so I elaborated on how I was going to be pushing 3 kegs of beer, and a keg of soda at a higher pressure, so what I was looking to do might make more sense.
At that point he looked at me and said; "your going to be trading out that 5 lbs tank quite a bit if your running that much pressure, you may want to upgrade to a 20lbs tank".
That stopped me. Honestly, it hadn't even occurred to me that they would just trade up...
In retrospect it makes sense, but it was just not something I had thought of. Of course there is a fee (something like $20, plus the cost of a 20lbs refill), but it seems more than reasonable to me. While I don't know if this is a universal practice, if your running a 5lbs tank, and thinking about upgrading, this may be an option to investigate, over buy another one.
Hope that's helpful to someone.
I picked up a 5 lbs. CO2 tank off of Craigslist (very cheaply) awhile back, and have been trading it in at a local welding shop. It's close and the refill/trade price seemed reasonable.
While I was in the shop this last time I mentioned that I was looking to combine 2 regulators (One with a broken high pressure gauge, and a fully functional one) into a dual regulator, and I wanted to get their thoughts. The guy wasn't sure if that would work, so I elaborated on how I was going to be pushing 3 kegs of beer, and a keg of soda at a higher pressure, so what I was looking to do might make more sense.
At that point he looked at me and said; "your going to be trading out that 5 lbs tank quite a bit if your running that much pressure, you may want to upgrade to a 20lbs tank".
That stopped me. Honestly, it hadn't even occurred to me that they would just trade up...
In retrospect it makes sense, but it was just not something I had thought of. Of course there is a fee (something like $20, plus the cost of a 20lbs refill), but it seems more than reasonable to me. While I don't know if this is a universal practice, if your running a 5lbs tank, and thinking about upgrading, this may be an option to investigate, over buy another one.
Hope that's helpful to someone.