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Just a public service announcement as far as the “prescription required” nonsense they will throw at you to justify charging you five times to ten times the going rate.

First: any oxygen you buy from any company comes from the same fill plant. The only difference is that the “medical oxygen” comes with a form that says what the purity level is. When I get oxygen delivered to the farm, that truck just delivered to the hospital. Industrial is the same stuff as medical. Get you an industrial “K” bottle (tell ‘‘em you need it for your welder) to keep at home for backup. Should be about a $100 bill, and it holds about 7,000 liters when full, enough to keep you at 2 lpm for over 48 hrs in case of equipment failure or power outage and can be replaced at any welding supply house.

Second, you don’t need a “medical grade” oxygen concentrator: again, the “non medical grade” ones are the same, produce the same % oxygen, just without the paper trail. At a fraction of the cost, and none of the hassle.

The whole thing is a racket, like insurance rates for windshields.

Just a public service announcement as far as the “prescription required” nonsense they will throw at you to justify charging you five times to ten times the going rate.

First: any oxygen you buy from any company comes from the same fill plant. The only difference is that the “medical oxygen” comes with a form that says what the purity level is. When I get oxygen delivered to the farm, that truck just delivered to the hospital. Industrial is the same stuff as medical. Get you an industrial “K” bottle (tell ‘‘em you need it for your welder) to keep at home for backup. Should be about a $100 bill, and it holds about 7,000 liters when full, enough to keep you at 2 lpm for over 48 hrs in case of equipment failure or power outage and can be replaced at any welding supply house.

Second, you don’t need a “medical grade” oxygen concentrator: again, the “non medical grade” ones are the same, produce the same % oxygen, just without the paper trail. At a fraction of the cost, and none of the hassle.

The whole thing is a racket, like insurance rates for windshields.

I have a K bottle in the shop. I would not breathe anything that came out of those bottles. When I go to get a refill. I see the way they are handled and filled. In order to get Department of Labor to pay for mine, I must have doctor submit a form of Medical Necessity to get it approved and I must do it every year. They pay 100%. The medical grade concentrators and bottles are sterilize before delivered. Shop grade are not.

Self medicating with O2 can be as dangerous as self medicating with other drugs

If you're not bright enough to do the math for correct mixture - you're existence isn't helping the human race as a whole.

As for sterilization - LOLOLOLOLOL - who sterilizes the air you breathe when you're outside or in your car?

Try walking by somebody's O2 concentrator machine and firing off a stinky fart. That's probably more hazardous than breathing a little welding oxygen. If a welding tank all that was available and the need was extreme, damn right I'd be using it!

I am bright enough to know what oxygen to use and it sure as hell is not welding grade. It isn't the oxygen that is sterilized it is the equipment and bottles dumb $hit. I don't bring crap into my house that some 15 an hour scum has handled. My lungs are crapped up by breathing a whole lot of crap I didn't have a choice to. As for not helping the human race,you can kiss my a$$. This forum is full of ignorant low lifes like yourself that never contribute anything useful. I have no doubt if you needed oxygen ,you would stick the cutting torch in your mouth and turn on the regulator.

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