welding gas

biggles

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Location
derbyshire
Have just about emptied my BOC bottle of argoshield, which has lasted nearly 3 years, unfortunately I cant get this refilled without an account now, which seems expensive for my light use. the garage down the road sells SGS gas which is pay a one off fee of £85 rental and £69.60 per refill for a 20l bottle, does anybody else use these and does that sound a fair price? also how big is a 20l compared to a full size "w" BOC ? cheers
 

biggles

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Location
derbyshire
20l is bugger all compared to the proper BOC bottles but then if it lasted you 3yrs it may suffice.
How many litres is a big BOC? cant be much bigger can they, just looking at my BOC and its a lot smaller diameter than my 20l oil drums, and it must be thick steel because its bloody heavy when empty, although it is a lot taller, would it be as big as 50L maybe? or not?
 

ACEngineering

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Location
Oxon
Have just about emptied my BOC bottle of argoshield, which has lasted nearly 3 years, unfortunately I cant get this refilled without an account now, which seems expensive for my light use. the garage down the road sells SGS gas which is pay a one off fee of £85 rental and £69.60 per refill for a 20l bottle, does anybody else use these and does that sound a fair price? also how big is a 20l compared to a full size "w" BOC ? cheers

As said you can get the volkszone deal on a Y sized bottle from BOC, easy half the normal costs and a Y size is the next size down from a Big full size W so it a decent size.
 

milkloss

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Livestock Farmer
Location
East Sussex
How many litres is a big BOC? cant be much bigger can they, just looking at my BOC and its a lot smaller diameter than my 20l oil drums, and it must be thick steel because its bloody heavy when empty, although it is a lot taller, would it be as big as 50L maybe? or not?

I think you’ll find BOC a much higher pressure as well as larger. Some strong googling reveals the cubic meters of gas in a cylinder.
 

biggles

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Location
derbyshire
cheers Lads, from what I can find out a 20l has approx. 5 cube of gas where as a BOC "W" has about 11.5, so based on current usage a rent free bottle should last me a year or so, the deposit is fully refundable should it not work out so im taking the plunge with SGS. The BOC was filled to 230bar and SGS say 200bar, so will see when regulator is fitted. cheers
 

Farmer_Joe

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Livestock Farmer
Location
The North
cheers Lads, from what I can find out a 20l has approx. 5 cube of gas where as a BOC "W" has about 11.5, so based on current usage a rent free bottle should last me a year or so, the deposit is fully refundable should it not work out so im taking the plunge with SGS. The BOC was filled to 230bar and SGS say 200bar, so will see when regulator is fitted. cheers


mines 230 bar when regs on but not sure how 20l compares to you bottle size, i got it wrong deposit is 110, but the refill is 65 plus vat i think

taken from webiste: 20l, 230 bar, 5.09m3
 

rob h

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Location
east yorkshire
We have a tig welder that doesn’t have a lot of work when we got it a couple of years back it worked out cheapest with a hobby weld ultra bottle lasts about a year
 

Blue.

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Livestock Farmer
Have just about emptied my BOC bottle of argoshield, which has lasted nearly 3 years, unfortunately I cant get this refilled without an account now, which seems expensive for my light use. the garage down the road sells SGS gas which is pay a one off fee of £85 rental and £69.60 per refill for a 20l bottle, does anybody else use these and does that sound a fair price? also how big is a 20l compared to a full size "w" BOC ? cheers

Do you know anyone with the same sized bottle on a boc account?

As always there is a way.
 

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