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Getting The Most From Your O2 (Read 672 times)
FrankF
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Getting The Most From Your O2
Sep 22nd, 2013 at 2:35pm
 
I have been thinking what to do when you have an O2 tank that is near empty, but you don't want to give it back to the O2 provider yet because it still has some O2 left? Now you have a full tank, but want to finish off the almost empty tank too.

I decided to make a "Y" adapter to combine O2 from the near empty tank with a full one, to squeeze the last bit of O2 from it. I didn't want it to cost money, so this is what I made (yeah, there are more elequent ways for doing this, but it didn't cost anything).

Things you will need:
3 O2 tubes cut off from the useless canullas the O2 company provided.
1 air-tight empty verapamil bottle from CVS
1 male to male O2 tube fitting

I drilled holes for each of the 3 tubes in the verapamil bottle. The holes need to be a just a little smaller than the tubing, so air doesn't leak. Forced the tubing into the holes, and the tubing forms itself to the hole shape so it doesn't leak.

This is what the "Y" adapter looks like:

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Marc
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Re: Getting The Most From Your O2
Reply #1 - Sep 25th, 2013 at 8:20pm
 
Good tip Frank. I use welding O2 and fill my own "E", "Jumbo D" and baby sized tanks from the mother ship tank in my garage.

You can do the same with a simple adapter hose kit, first described here by Jonny. It looks like this: Multimedia File Viewing and Clickable Links are available for Registered Members only!!  You need to Login or Register

I had 9 of them awhile back, but gave them all to CH sufferers over the last couple of years.

Marc
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