Oxyacetylene welding kit.

So the story goes that quite a few years ago my father gave away our gas bottles and gas welding gear.

But now i find i'm increasingly in need of it.

I get that things have changed since and i'm sure there is certificates and licences and red tape galore to be able to hold such equipment in a domestic garage.

We had the bottles chained to the wall and the pipes were disconnected after every use.
Happily able to report that we didn't blow the house up in the 30 odd years that we kept the bottles.

I hold City and Guilds certificates for gas welding and safe use also.

So can anyone tell me if there is anywhere I can get the bottles and be able to exchange them when they've run out?

Or what hoops I need to jump through to be able to keep bottles again.

Nowt to stop you having oxy acetylene at home. Any welding place will rent you the bottles.

cost of bottle rent is about £10 a month each plus gas, but why would you want it mig weldings better and heat is easily done using propane

Cheap skates use oxy propane

Pikey said:

Nowt to stop you having oxy acetylene at home. Any welding place will rent you the bottles.

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I was expecting it to be alot harder than that.

I don't know anywhere around Coventry who does the bottles except maybe BOC.

X10 size is £45pa. Rental. Over ere.

Funkykipper said:

I was expecting it to be alot harder than that.

I don't know anywhere around Coventry who does the bottles except maybe BOC.

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Do a search FFS. gotta be plenty of welding supply places round Coventry

Funkykipper said:

I was expecting it to be alot harder than that.

I don't know anywhere around Coventry who does the bottles except maybe BOC.

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try eng weld supplies ,i know they have a branch in derby ,everyone around here uses them , i do because they are cheaper than some

jamesmartin said:

try eng weld supplies ,i know they have a branch in derby ,everyone around here uses them , i do because they are cheaper than some

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Thank you James, better advice than grumpy grandad above you.

fanatic said:

Cheap skates use oxy propane

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Is Oxypropane better then?

Funkykipper said:

Is Oxypropane better then?

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its used for cutting not welding , acetylene for both, most use plasma and mig/tig so acets rarely used

fanatic said:

Cheap skates use oxy propane

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Propane murders the oxygen buts better for cutting

I have oxy-acetylene as my dad has had it for the last 40 years or so. it's handy for brazing the odd stuff or out and about where you can't get power easily for the welder and besides my welder is far too big to be carting about anyway lol

The oxy bottle just fits with about an inch or two to spare across the rear tub of the 110 too which is sweet when I need to move it

DaveM-sport said:

I have oxy-acetylene as my dad has had it for the last 40 years or so. it's handy for brazing the odd stuff or out and about where you can't get power easily for the welder and besides my welder is far too big to be carting about anyway lol

The oxy bottle just fits with about an inch or two to spare across the rear tub of the 110 too which is sweet when I need to move it

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Perfect.

If it's only occasional use Hobbyweld Rent Free Acetylene

Something portable would good.

Small cylinders of oxy/acetelyne are rent free here but the refills are extortanate.
I've had the kit with big bottles at home in the UK for years, used to get them changed at the local BOC agent, no questions ever asked.

Datatek said:

Small cylinders of oxy/acetelyne are rent free here but the refills are extortanate.
I've had the kit with big bottles at home in the UK for years, used to get them changed at the local BOC agent, no questions ever asked.

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That's how we did it too. But without bottles to begin with it's a tad hard.

Datatek said:

Small cylinders of oxy/acetelyne are rent free here but the refills are extortanate.
I've had the kit with big bottles at home in the UK for years, used to get them changed at the local BOC agent, no questions ever asked.

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Funkykipper said:

That's how we did it too. But without bottles to begin with it's a tad hard.

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You'll be very lucky to get bottles exchanged now without buying a contract, the good old days of buying a bottle from a local engineering place have long gone. You can't even get a bottle of CO2 that way cos they're all on contract and have serial numbers.

Carrington224 said:

You'll be very lucky to get bottles exchanged now without buying a contract, the good old days of buying a bottle from a local engineering place have long gone. You can't even get a bottle of CO2 that way cos they're all on contract and have serial numbers.

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So you rent the bottle per year and then also pay every time it needs filling up i assume?