Re: [APD] transporting CO2 tanks?

["S. Hieber" <shieber at yahoo_com>]

If you carry it in a car, better the trunk than passenger
compartment. A rapid leak from the tank could fill the car
with condensing water vapor making vision difficult.

The regulations for compressed gas tanks generally come
under DOT. Local regs can be diff; usually are.

If someone had a compressed gas tank in a parked car in the
daylight, that's very injudicious.  Car's can get very hot
and although CO2 tanks do not get filled anywhere near
their tested pressure capacity, storage in parked car (even
short term) is beyond the recommend proper use.

Scot H.

--- Kurt Wiedenhoeft <kurt at saskia_com> wrote:
> All this talk about CO2 tanks reminds me of something my
> supplier told
> me the last time I got a CO2 tank. He told me that in
> Florida it's
> illegal to transport a filled tank in my car ($10,000
> fine no less),
> that it should only be transported in an open pickup
> truck. He said one
> of their customers got stopped by the police after
> somebody noticed the
> tank in the back of her car at a Wal-mart parking lot
> (that I can
> believe). 
> 
> I find that really hard to believe, especially since I've
> never heard
> that when I pick up a propane tank with my car. On the
> other hand, I'd
> hate to be proved wrong... has anyone else heard this?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Kurt
> 
> 
> 
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