What can you do with Carbon Dioxide??

[Junkman]

A friend offered me a large steel bottle filled with Carbon Dioxide, but I have no idea of what to use it for... He purchased the bottle for some machine that they used at work, but the project never materialized, and the machine was returned to the vendor. He still has the bottle.. any suggestions...

 

[Zrexxer]

Two major things. You can use it for shielding gas for MIG welding mild steel, and you can use it to carbonate home brewed beer. Both noble endeavors.

 

[NUTTSGT]

Take it back and maybe get the deposit or use it as a credit for something else.

 

[ScaldedDog]

Fill tires, run ARB lockers, run air tools when no compressor is around...

Mark

 

[PassnThru]

Release it - make Al Gore cry? Credit to a GJ member in a previous discussion.

 

[Cryptic1911]

crack it open when something catches fire

 

[The Hot Rod Grille]

Here's a pic of how I use carbon dioxide in my garage. My soda fountain makes carbonated water which I mix with concentrated flavors to make cola, orange, grape, cherry, strawberry and root beer. Stop by the garage and I'll make a fountain treat for you!

Jim

 

[StriderTB]

How about full medical oxygen tanks? My parents were cleaning out their garage and found three or four full bottles.

 

[Junkman]

Medical oxygen bottles for the most part are obsolete if they are the steel ones. Today, all medical oxygen except for the largest bottles are aluminum. Depending on where you live, I might know someone that would be interested in them for an antique ambulance. Technically speaking, today, you need a prescription to have medical oxygen. I doubt that anyone would ever push that issue though. I have 4 antique ambulances, and I always keep a full bottle on-board, in the event that I might need it for myself. Each of my ambulances is equipped with a older E & J Resuscitator. In a pinch, they will still perform as well as the day that they were manufactured. Because of liability, I wouldn't use them, unless it meant the difference between life and death.. I figure that the Good Samaritan laws would protect me in that case.
Getting back to the bottles that you have....... what are the hight of the bottle? Can you post a picture? thanks Junk...

 

[StriderTB]

They're probably only 10 years old, like the middle tank pictured:

 

[Junkman]

Those are the newer style... Donate them to your local EMS or Fire Department ambulance squad...

 

[StriderTB]

Excellent! I don't think my parents knew quite what to do with them, I'll let them know.

 

[rwhite692]

Suffocate a global warming activist with it.

Or just hit him over the head with the bottle, faster acting that way.

 

[Bender78]

Suffocate a global warming activist with it.

That's good.

 

[dkcase]

..... today, you need a prescription to have medical oxygen. ...

Why on earth would this be a regulation ?.

Or does it just have to make as much sense as declaring that carbon dioxide is a pollutant ?

 

[BioHazard]

Why on earth would this be a regulation ?.

It's BS, but it's true. My grandma used to be on constant medical O2. (after 70 years of smoking!) By prescription only - but they filled it at the same place as the welding cylinders and you can buy a medical grade "oxygen concentrator" online. Makes no sense...maybe it's only so insurance will pay for it?