All-Safe

[2airishuman]

I recently took a bunch of cylinders up to All Safe in Wyoming (just north of the metro near North Branch). They seem happy to take walk-in business. I was pleased with the work they did. Turn around was just over a week.

Their current prices, give or take the pennies and the tax, are $21 for hydro and VIP, $20 for hydro only, $4 for visual eddy current (for pre-1990 aluminum cylinders), and $18 for internal shot blasting.

The shot blasting is a great process. They cleaned up an old steel cylinder for me, one that had the brown painted-in liner. The liner had deteriorated and the corrosion looked bad when I took it in, and after shot blasting, the liner was gone and the walls smooth. Quick, easy, and cheap compared to tumbling.

They will shot blast almost any steel tank you bring them whether you ask them to or not, however, so figure that into the cost.

They return cylinders to you completely empty.

They will also accept cylinders sent to them via UPS or whatever, which might make sense if you're outstate and only have one or two.

I don't think they do any valve work, but I didn't ask.

The only thing to watch is that, if you have PST high-pressure cylinders, PST has a service bulletin out that specifies that the cylinders should be pressurized to 90% of test pressure before hydro as good tanks will often fail if this isn't done. All-safe is unwilling to do this based on their interpretation of the DOT regulations. They are up front about it, at least. I dropped my PST cylinders off at Nardini instead.