Who fills nitrous bottles? Question is do you fill them if bottle is out of certification. I have filled them for years and have not made certification a must have. I am now thinking liability wise that filling out dated bottles is not in my best interests. I know a lot has to do with the DOT and its regulations.

For new customers, I will fill them once if they are recently out of date. After that they must have them re-dated. Regular customers I inform before they are out of date. Luckily for me there is a fire safety company only about 3 miles away, which can hydro test bottles for me. It is about $30. For $40 on top of the re-fill I will get them tested for the customer so they don't have to try and find the place.

Thanks for the reply. I wish we had a place near by that could do re-certifications. That would be very helpfull. I take it that the tech inspections do not include bottle dates?

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Fire extiguiser places can do it. Google hydrostatic testing for your area.

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I did and no luck. Our local Air Gas company can do it but they only send a large ammount of bottles in at once. They claim 90 to 120 days aprox before it would return. Way up here in Upper Michigan there is not much specialty buisness.

I have found that it is not a tech problem as much as getting someone to fill the bottle. I recently had to have my shifter co2 bottle tested before the guy would fill it. And there's only one place locally that will fill a bottle like that. It cost about $30 to hav e it recertified.