In article , Donals Dilemma
wrote:

On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 23:02:33 -0000, "Donal"
wrote:


Donals Dilemma wrote in message
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On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 13:50:59 +1100, Peter Wiley
wrote:
I just used my account with BOC to rent industrial cylinders of
LPG instead. Always a way.

Yep, you can get around the rules.
In a normal situation the gas supplier will not fill or exchange on
site cylinders without seeing the compliance plate.
Hell they're so pedantic that you can show them the paperwork but if
there's no plate attached, and legible, they go away.

Please tell me that I haven't understood what both of you have written.

Do you need to show some sort of certificate just to buy a cylinder of gas
for your boat?


No!
for a boat you need a cylinder that has been tested and stamped no
less than 10 years ago. After that it need to be retested or replaced.
It MUST be galvanised for marine use so it's economical to retest and
have a new valve fitted.
In a fixed/home/commercial installation, a compliance plate needs to
be fixed near the cylinder before it will be installed/replaced or
refilled.


Right. Basically cylinders fall into 2 categories. 9kg & less, you can
own and get filled anywhere without paperwork, as Oz says, long as
they're in test. The big cylinders - 45kg - are used for
domestic/industrial supply of LPG and if they're for a fixed
installation (house for example) the pipework has to be done by a
licensed gasfitter and it's illegal for the supplier to rent bottles to
you if you don't have the paperwork/compliance plate. It's also illegal
to do your own gas pipework for reticulated town gas, BTW, and for good
reason - lotta idiots and the people they kill will probably not
include themselves, unfortunately.

My situation, I have an account with an industrial gas supplier for
oxygen, acetylene, argon, carbon dioxide etc for welding/cutting. Easy
to add LPG to the list of bottles I rent. IIRC the price was actually a
bit less than the domestic supplier as well.

PDW