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jmanz69 · 01-01-2005, 06:05 PM

Victor, Airgas, and Linde are good ones. Get a used one, they last forever and are pretty pricey to buy new. The little tube is for showing the amount of flow, not the amount left in the bottle. You see that from the pressure guage, the needle will not move for a very long time, but when it does, it goes fast. You can expect to get about 3 hrs of "trigger" time from a 40 cf bottle. That is a very long time when you consider how short your trigger pulls are when welding on sheet metal. Mine lasted about 2.5 months before starting to go down. I haven't got it filled, but the last time I called AGA, they said about $25 to exchange it. I payed $85 for mine, and that was in August.

01-01-2005, 06:05 PM	#8
jmanz69 Careful, they attack... Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Waterford, MI, USA Posts: 1,107	Victor, Airgas, and Linde are good ones. Get a used one, they last forever and are pretty pricey to buy new. The little tube is for showing the amount of flow, not the amount left in the bottle. You see that from the pressure guage, the needle will not move for a very long time, but when it does, it goes fast. You can expect to get about 3 hrs of "trigger" time from a 40 cf bottle. That is a very long time when you consider how short your trigger pulls are when welding on sheet metal. Mine lasted about 2.5 months before starting to go down. I haven't got it filled, but the last time I called AGA, they said about $25 to exchange it. I payed $85 for mine, and that was in August.