Breathing Air & O2 clean Tank Stickers

[Dominic]

This is just speculative at the moment, but:

As you know, there's new requirements come in for scuba cylinders that mean we have to have "Breathing Air" stickers on them.

My basic research (Phoning my local and chatting to some other people ;)) suggest these stickers are typically being sold by dive shops at around £2.50

My club is considering buying some direct from the makers, the only downside being that they only sell in batches of 100.

We don't really have THAT many cylinders in the club, so we'll probably look at selling the rest off to members, their families, their friends, their old room-mates, and anybody else who fancies a sticker

So are there any people on here that'd be interested in a few stickers at £1 each? Since I'm the one who's ordering them, I have a certain amount of say on who they get sold to, y'see.. ;)

[Sam]

I've not long had my cylinders hydro tested and they came back without any additional stickers or marking.

Does this regulation not just apply to newly made cylinders?

[Driftwood]

Dom,

There's a guy in Belfast that was selling stuff on Ebay and through the web from a closed down diving shop....

http://www.suboceanservices.net

Site's offline at the mo but he can be mailed through EBay (search for member "suboceanservices") - he was selling gas stickers for 50p!

HTH

[Dominic]

Due to the original price being based on a mis-quote, I can now report that I can let people have the stickers for 50p each.

However:

Whilst these are official stickers supplied by SITA (I can scan in the IDEST receipt if anyone really wants to see it) they ARE different to the ones you get sold by dive shops.

Specifically, they measure only 3x15 centimeters. This is great for me, with my 7L cylinders, and for anyone with a pony, but if your dive shop is likely to kick up a fuss about them not being as big as the ones they sell, you might like to bear this in mind. Also if your cylinders are covered in mesh, they probably aren't going to be big enough to be visible underneath the stuff.

[daz]

I would recommend people consider getting these stickers at what appears to be a reasonable price.

I have discovered a few problems with the current legislation (As have a lot of people).  As I understand it :-

If your cylinder was test prior to a date that I can't remember - doh,  It does not require a sticker as long as it is still in test.

When it is retested it must have a breathing air sticker affixed (probably at additional cost to the test (most places are charging between £2 and £2.50).  So when it is next due for a test people will have to pay for a sticker.

However this aside I have stickered all my cylinders as some filling stations do not seem to know what the legislation actually states and are ensuring all cylinders are stickered.  I can't be bothered to argue the toss with these places as the cylinders would have needed a sticker eventually anyway.

Regarding the net covering the sticker,  I must admit I don't worry too much, if anyone wants to question it I can always slide the net down.

Kind Regards,
Daz

[abucksdiver]

<font color='#000080'>Last month, I had my wife's cylinder tested. (It was its first visual test). I now have a cylinder with a new test date stamped on it, and have a test certificate saying all is well.

Now my question... Do I need a sticker on the cylinder?

If so, what should it say? (The cylinder is used for Air only, is yellow with the black/white quarterings around the neck...)

Thanks for the help...

abucksdiver

[Digger]

<font color='#000080'>For a start, the colour of the paint and gubbins is irrelevant.

As for the stickers, have you checked that the sticker witht the next test date doesn't have &quot;breathing air&quot; written on it anywhere? If it does, it's ok (at least I've had no problem getting a fill on mine)

All these massive stickers I see with big green diamonds on them are unneccesary, as far as I know. It just has to be clearly labelled with breathing air, nitrox, or custom mix/trimix.

[abucksdiver]

<font color='#000080'>Thats the problem... there is no sticker on the cylinder. (The test date is stamped onto the cylinder itself.

So I need a sticker with just &nbsp;&quot;Breathing Air&quot; on it?

abucksdiver

[Digger]

<font color='#000080'>I would have thought you could go to your LDS, who will have stickers with breathing air, but also some next test stickers. Then again, I don't know if it has to be stickered. I would have thought that having it stamped is better, as it can't get ripped off, changed (in a hurry, anyway), or interfered with in general.

You probably need a Breathing Air sticker at the minimum if it was tested since the change of rules.

[Richie]

Got a couple of mine tested a month or two back, nicely stamped but they lost paint in the process! Hammerite anyone? &nbsp; &nbsp;