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Source of bottle gasses - ethane?

Douchermann - 23-8-2008 at 21:21

I was wondering if anyone could point me in the direction of a manufacturer that sells consumer sized bottles of ethane. By consumer sized, I mean 40-80cu. ft cylinders. I've searched through google and all I can find is the fire retardant, which is obviously not what I'm looking for. Thanks in advance

Picric-A - 24-8-2008 at 01:29

Where do you live?
If you are in the UK like me this company are good and reliable:
www.ckgas.com
My school buys all their small lecture sized gas bottles of them, Cl2, NH3, HCl ect..
Picric-A

Douchermann - 24-8-2008 at 12:16

My appologies, I'm located in the US. Thanks though.

Panache - 27-8-2008 at 00:04

All refrigeration suppliers will sell r-50 which is ethane, take a cylinder along and buy what you need, however it's farking expensive because of it's purity. (in oz it's like $150/kg)

Ethane bottles

tapira1 - 6-9-2008 at 18:04

Coming late to the discussion, but agree with panache in a couple of aspects: 1- The gas is extremely pure and expensive; 2- refrigeration suppliers use it for chillers. We repaired a -78ÂșC flexicool that lost its gas and it was fairly expensive.