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Safe transport of med. oxygen cylinders

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PJH

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My neighbor uses medical oxygen, and needs to make a day trip requiring at least one spare cylinder of oxygen. These cylinders don't have the protective cap like my shop cylinders. How do you safely haul them? The spares will be in the back of my pickup. I've done a search, and there's lots of info from the UK, and some info about trains and buses, but I haven't found anything that fits our situation. I appreciate any advice you can give me.

Paul
 
My Dad used to use a plastic milk carton to carry them in his truck. He would stuff an old rag between them. It's low tec but it worked for him.
 
They aren't dangerous. They don't have the pressure or volume of your shop cylinders so it doesn't matter as long as they aren't rolling around.
 
My Mom uses them, so I've seen them brought in by the supply company as well as seeing her haul them around. Basically there are no real safety precautions necessary other than having them secure.

With the big bottles the tank is steel and heavy while the valve is relatively small and weak, so to speak. If the bottle fell, just it's weight and momentum would easily break the valve. The result is the valve has to have a guard to protect it.

With the medical bottles, they are aluminium. Between the small size, and lite weight of the bottle and as beefy as the valve is, the chance of a valve getting broken is so infinitesimally small that it's simply not an issue for anyone.

So, as another reply suggested, it you have several bottles, a milk crate, or 2 liter soft drink crate works well for keeping them upright and together. For just one bottle, simply lay it down where it won't roll around, and it will be fine.
 
I used to carry a 100# tank in back of mini-van. Strapped it in the best I could. It was very scary to think what would have happen in an accident, but wife needed it or she turned purple.

The sad thing is that once you are on oxygen, good chance you will never get off. The more you are on oxygen, the more oxygenyou need and the weaker you get. My wife was on it for about 5 years 24/7 before she passed 15 years ago.
 
In the real world just try to keep them upright and not rolling around. Yes the brass valves will break off and YES, they are filled at the SAME PSI as your shop cylinders. The only difference between shop O2 and medical O2 is the piece of paper saying your Medical is pure. I will have about 250 of them on the truck in the AM.
 
You are horribly misinformed. 2200 psi full...it's a small rocket waiting to happen. I've seen them go through six walls in a hospital x ray department. They all need to be chained so they don't move.
 
Put in a bag, a gym bag or similar they do not have to be upright. strap them down to be secure. if in side a passenger compartment secure bag with seatbelt, you dont want them loose. They are secured so they won't flying through the air striking passengers or other objects in or outside the vehicle case of an accident or rollover. Been using O2 for twenty years now. Always be safe when transporting them and secure them.
Chuck
 
Same difference with SCUBA bottles. I dove back in my younger days. Seen whole car trunks, pickup trucks full of em.
And these where 3000 psi aluminum bottles, 80 cubic ft.

Banged em around and rolled em around. Closest thing I saw to exciting was when a guy had the "burst disk" let go while it was on his back and he was on the surface of a flooded rock quarry. Exciting for a minute, then it was all over.

Just secure them, pad them, and use some common sense.

Gene
 
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