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Originally Posted by navychop
That is exactly what I told Scubaland Adventures in Austin, I even forwarded the link to the Luxfer inspection site and one from XSscuba. Since the last two inspections were from reputable LDS's, Toms Scuba and Oak Hill Scuba, they can't just pull a valve and drain a tanks without asking especially since it is current in Hydro and visual + and 02 cleaning. Scubaland did not offer an apology, just basically telling me to have it hydro'd again. Since when does Scubaland trump Federal inspection standard.
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They can do whatever they please in the name of safety. In this case, you'd be hard pressed to argue that they were being ridiculous: they observed a visibly deformed tank made out of an alloy known to explosively self destruct, full of a gas which acts as an accelerant. In order to stay on the safe side, they immediately drained the tank. Once the tank was drained, they removed the valve to ensure that the tank was completely unpressurized and could not be repressurized.
At this point, they can refuse to fill the tank and you can do nothing to force them to fill it for you.
The only thing I do agree with you on is, they owe you the cost of the gas in the tanks. No more no less.