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From: gmm@bunker.UUCP (Gregory M. Mandas)
Newsgroups: net.rec.scuba
Subject: Re: Re: Equipment Recommendations Needed
Message-ID: <609@bunker.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 1-Nov-84 16:15:58 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov  1 16:15:58 1984
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Organization: Bunker Ramo, Trumbull Ct
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> > 
> > I am interested in purchasing the following scuba equipment:
> > 
> >    regulator
> >    gauage/control cluster
> >    bc and backpack
> >    tank(s)
> >    alternate air supply
> > 
> > I plan on purchasing the items new, although I would appreciate any
> > feedback regarding which items may be "safely" purchased second hand.
>
>  
>    { Edited out of the replay were two very good paragraphs on how 
>      to purchase steel tanks. }
> 
> Buying a used aluminum tank is a more risky proposition.     

I read this to mean that you run a higher risk of purchasing a bum 
tank if it is aluminum than if it is steel. Could you explain this. 
All of the material I have read on the subject points to aluminum 
tanks being far better then steel tanks. 

Greg Mandas
ittvax!bunker!gmm