Buy a refill station

[bleu]

So I am looking into buying my own refill station. I was wondering if some of the chaps out there that already own a business woudl chime in on how to go about doing this. I know where to buy one, though I may be open to better offers.

What I wonder is what costs are there? Insurance? I was thinking of just having it at my house for my personal use then I realized that since I had such a hard time getting a bottle filled in the first place, there might actually be a market for it here. Any rules that you know of that say you can't fill a bottle at your house?


Thoughts welcome,

Take care,

Bleu:wiggle:

[Ashentep]

In my area, so long as you have the proper business licenses to operate a shop, you can fill nitrous bottles. I actually fill bottles, but I don't advertise because I mainly want to keep my bottle full.

I use a simple -6AN transfer line with filter and a qtr turn valve. I've got a digital shipping scale that I use to measure the amount I am putting in the bottles. Gravity and pressure feeds the small bottle off the mother bottle, and it works great. I think I have about $100 in the filling rig, and if I only fill my own bottles, it saves me ~$96 per mother bottle. I get between 60-65lbs out of a 70lbs mother bottle this way. If I went to a transfer pump, I could probably get a little more, and I wouldn't have to freeze the bottles before filling, but I just can't see spending the money on the pump yet.

[quicktruck]

my setup is just about the same. get a good digital scale. It works fine filling it without a transfer pump as long as you freeze the bottle first. The hard part about it was getting the fitting to thread onto the tank. No one likes to keep that in stock. It had to be special ordered. If you don't use a transfer pump make sure you get a tank with the siphon tube so that you don't have to build a stand and flip the tank upside down.

[Nate]

http://ny-trex.com/kits/10042.php

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[bleu]

Thanks for the note on the business stuff. When I get back to the states i think I am going to do this. You just rent a mother bottle?

[Ashentep]

Yes. I lease a 70lbs mother bottle for $40 a year, and when its empty I exchange it for a full one and pay for just the nitrous in it.

If you have a Linde gas locally, I'd recommend checking their prices out. They're the cheapest supplier by far locally to me.

[quicktruck]

I use Linde gas also. my rent is about 60 a year, still not bad.