Psa xs scuba 108's hydro failure

[Randall]

If they havent xxx?d them out I would take them somewhere else.


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Unfortunately he already xxxx out the numbers. He's a decent guy, so ill take the tanks back to him with the procedure i just printed from Worthington and have him re-test them with that procedure. I know the tanks are still condemned, but if they pass he will at least learn something and I hopefully wont have this issue in the future. On the bright side I learned something also, not sure that's worth a set of tanks but I guess some lessons are expensive.. Thanks again for all of the input guys,

[rddvet]

Unfortunately he already xxxx out the numbers. He's a decent guy, so ill take the tanks back to him with the procedure i just printed from Worthington and have him re-test them with that procedure. I know the tanks are still condemned, but if they pass he will at least learn something and I hopefully wont have this issue in the future. On the bright side I learned something also, not sure that's worth a set of tanks but I guess some lessons are expensive.. Thanks again for all of the input guys,

Yeah unfortunately thats a $4-500 lesson thats hard to swallow. Its definitely possible its a true failure. But I suspect its a procedural issue. I doubt there?s anyway to reverse it being condemned which sucks. I know of 2 hydro facilities that dont xxx them out until they speak to the person that owns the tanks. It would be nice if they all did that.


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[rddvet]

Yes! However I didn't leave them, I stood there while they tested them

I do that too but only because I enjoy hanging out with Dave.
I was very lucky that my first technical instructor was adamant that his students and friends only use Dave if they?re anywhere near his area. It was because he had the exact same issue on a set of tanks that the op had.


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[Randall]

Yeah unfortunately thats a $4-500 lesson thats hard to swallow. Its definitely possible its a true failure. But I suspect its a procedural issue. I doubt there?s anyway to reverse it being condemned which sucks. I know of 2 hydro facilities that dont xxx them out until they speak to the person that owns the tanks. It would be nice if they all did that.


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Yea i will be having the conversation with him about calling me before he condemns another one. Never know maybe they pass and he does some free hydros for me.....

[BluEclipse17]

A few years ago I used to hydro tanks. If a tank fails hydro you are required to condemn them and your only allowed to run the test two times. Even if it's the test operator or equipment malfunction your required to condemn them. Shops can be fined a good bit of money if they are caught in violation- I have been inspected and it's not a fun process. Once they are condemned and XXX'd out they are scrap, unless you have a private fill station.

As others have said they likely didn't do the pre-stretch, which if I recall correctly, is at 90% of the test pressure. If you don't do this step you will fail tanks that should pass. It's a really crappy situation. The guy running the hydro likely destroyed your perfectly good tanks if they didn't do the pre-stretch. He's a nice guy but now who is responsible for 2- $400ish tanks.

[JahJahwarrior]

That's small claims court territory...

Dave failed one of my tanks and I thanked him for keeping me safe, but it's different with someone who didn't follow the required procedure.

Give him a chance to make it right, I don't believe in courts as the first step.

[teqdiver]

In case anyone wants to see the notices issued by XS Scuba ages ago, here they are. They have been on XS’s website for years.

https://static1.squarespace.com/stat...ton_notice.pdf

https://static1.squarespace.com/stat...procedures.pdf

https://www.xsscuba.com/x-series-ree-values