bwahahah not even a gaping clams comment? :razz:

ok I'll quit now, sorry for ruining your thread marie, think of it as a comedic break :razz:

ROTFLMAO! Took the words right out of my mouth.

But point being, Marie's tank ROCKS!! Maybe she should give seminars and charge an arm and leg, or a frag per word.

There's nowhere in Powell River to fill up a CO2 bottle?? :neutral: There has to be something. Check the welding supply shops, the medical gas shops, the beverage supply places .. there has to be somewhere. Those drink dispensers at McDonalds et.al. - those are CO2 cylinders that drive those things, somebody has to be able to fill them up.

Are you still running this tank skimmerless BTW?

My husband checked around last year and he couldn't find anyplace. It is after all a very small town.

Even though my skimmer probably doesn't do much good, I started it back up any way... mostly for my piece of mind. It just didn't feel right not having a skimmer cup to clean out :lol:

Oops, forgot to mention fire extinguisher places, there has to be some of that.

I'm surprised is all, I thought Powell River wasn't, you know, that small (isn't it 20,000? That's not exactly tiny :) ).

Anyhow, I poked around in yellowpages.ca a bit and came up with this place, maybe you know it already, maybe they suck, I don't know. But hey, maybe they're worth a call since they say they're a Praxair depot:
http://yellowpages.ca/bus/British-Co...did=13795459aa

Also this place might be worth a call:
http://yellowpages.ca/bus/British-Co...d/3454250.html

Nope, both of those places send everything out of town. In fact it's Wick's that looks after filling my bottle along with all the fire extinguishers in town.

And while there maybe 20,000 people from saltery bay to lund there is less then 10,000 that actually live inside town limits



Edit, ok so I lied, there is actually 13000 people living in the town proper

Maybe you need to get one of those monster bottles? I think their like 100lbs or somthing...should last you a few months anyways:biggrin:

Sounds like it would be easier to have 2 bottles, have one dropped off at your CO2 shop to be shipped for filling and swap when other bottle is empty. More cost I know, but you wouldn't be out of CO2

Yeah, wow, I can understand there not being a place to fill it in town then, but you'd think there'd be something within a couple hours drive. Three weeks to a fill is .. well .. well, what can I say, I'd consider that unacceptable.. but I guess you work with what you got. I agree with Scav, I think you should get a 70lb bottle for your main and then use a 10lb or 5lb bottle as the spare.

That's actually what I do, I have two cylinders myself because I thought the 1 to 2 day turnaround for my fills was too long :p

And the real irony is I'm not even running a reactor right now. I've been dosing instead. Damn thing keeps leaking, it's driving me crazy. I've been contemplating ditching the reactor altogether when my new tank comes up and just go with the Balling method or a derivative. But, that's another topic altogether.

Sorry to hear it's such a hassle in Powell River. I honestly thought P.R. was sort of the nearest major centre for a lot of those coastal hamlets. But when I was looking for you last night, I agree, I saw basically nothing in the town of Powell River itself. I found places in Qualicum Beach though :rolleyes: .. You'd think there'd be something that could do better than 3 weeks. I guess all the restaurants/fast food places probably just have a truck come in once per week loaded up with cylinders, coming in from the L.M. maybe... :neutral:

I smell business venture... You should open up a CO2 refilling business, everyone would have to go through you :wink: