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Re: Recertifying nitrous bottles? [Re: DrCharles] #2859800
12/14/20 12:52 PM
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Talked to the guy this morning. He was very defensive and insisted that he's been selling nitrous since 1992 and he doesn't do business that way.
So in his humble opinion I must have opened the valve, or it leaks (!). Despite that the cylinder is still 21.70 lbs today, hasn't changed a gram. As if I wouldn't have noticed and heard 3 lbs of nitrous leaking into my car (bottles were in the back seat) during the 1 hr drive home.

All he would agree to is for me to come down and he'd fill it up in front of me.
Sure, another 80 mile round trip and $10 in gas. And the bottle's at his house, not his shop, more time wasted.

At BEST his scales are wrong - which probably means he's been shorting people for decades. I will be charitable and assume it's unintentional.
Credit card will only dispute all-or-nothing. I just want $22.75 back, not the whole $130. He did provide 80% of what I paid for.
At this point the overpriced $7.50 nitrous in my own town looks like a better deal rolleyes
And now I know why, of 26 Google reviews, there are 21 five-star and 5 one-star. Live and learn.

Re: Recertifying nitrous bottles? [Re: DrCharles] #2859834
12/14/20 02:02 PM
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Did you weight your bottle before filling and is your scale certified. Maybe take your scale along next time.


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Re: Recertifying nitrous bottles? [Re: pittsburghracer] #2860025
12/14/20 08:03 PM
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It's surplus so hasn't been calibrated in a while... but that's easy enough to check (with a precise volume of water, for example).
And it's always agreed with the scales at USPS and FedEx.

More importantly - even if my scale is off, how could the weights be so different for two identical bottles, both labeled by NOS to weigh 14 lb 12 oz empty, 24 lb 12 oz full? work
One is 21+ lb and the other is barely 24.

I need to go out of town for the rest of the week, so I will take this up again when I get home.

Re: Recertifying nitrous bottles? [Re: DrCharles] #2860095
12/14/20 11:18 PM
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Originally Posted by DrCharles
It's surplus so hasn't been calibrated in a while... but that's easy enough to check (with a precise volume of water, for example).
And it's always agreed with the scales at USPS and FedEx.

More importantly - even if my scale is off, how could the weights be so different for two identical bottles, both labeled by NOS to weigh 14 lb 12 oz empty, 24 lb 12 oz full? work
One is 21+ lb and the other is barely 24.

I need to go out of town for the rest of the week, so I will take this up again when I get home.




I have three brand new bottles that just ran out of cert. I have a new scale I bought for when I do run nitrous so I’ll try to weigh mine this week just out of curiosity. 1000’s of Dollars of nitrous stuff unused in my bedroom. Lol

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422 Indy headed small block
5.982@112.56 mph
9.42@138.27

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Re: Recertifying nitrous bottles? [Re: pittsburghracer] #2860110
12/14/20 11:54 PM
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For a minute there I thought your bedroom was in the garage laugh

I've decided just to take the "short" bottle with me the next time I go to Mtn. Home, and tell him I want exactly 3 more lbs in it.
He did offer to fill it for free, with me present (that's all he would admit to).
That will be a full 10 lb, and then it doesn't matter whose scale is being used.

Then we'll be even and I'll never darken his shop door again. Anyone with the trifecta of bad attitude, late schedule, and blames the customer for HIS mistakes is not someone I do business with (more than once) rolleyes

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