Flame King YSNR501 50 Pound Refrigerant Recovery Cylinder Tank , Gray

Great quality recovery cylinder at an unbeatable price. Cylinder is on-par with mainstream brands. The problem, is with Amazon's packaging (see picture) and handling of this item. Buy a pack of socks, it comes carefully packaged. Buy a pressure vessel for storing a high pressure hazmat, it's thrown into an oversized box taped shut and kicked on down the road. YOU MUST DO BETTER AMAZON. Fortunately, despite the box bursting open in transit, mine arrived virtually undamaged (minor paint scuffs), it is however already 1 year old. As to the warehouse deal tanks with "major cosmetic damage" see DOT specification DOT-4BA-400. They are likely unserviceable. All in all, a good product at a fair price. Just could use ALOT better packaging... some bubble wrap, packing paper maybe, a smaller box, double boxed, ...... Final Note: If you are bargain shopping; Stay away from the cheap Chinese knock-offs from that other online marketplace. The 20 to 30 $ you save could cost you or someone else a lot more.

This tank should provide me with excellent service for decades. Do-it yourselfers- don't buy those cheap pressure cooker looking ones just because you think they are easy to clean (removable lid, etc). If you're a do-it-yourselfer, you should know as professionals do, that you would test the contents of the system before evacuating to determine if the refrigerant is re-usable. If it isn't, then use a designated junk tank for recovery of the contaminated refrigerant that can't be re-used. Those tanks are then to be turned over to an EPA certified reclaimer. My point is, you don't need to clean a dirty tank, because legally you can't do so unless you're a certified reclaimer. My new tanks always take the place of previous new tanks, which then become recovery only "junk" tanks. Buy a tank that will remain a new tank until it is replaced with the next new one. Be responsible to your planet.

Holds liquid refrigerant. Does not leak

Arrived very poorly packaged, but not much to damage - the valves are well protected by the handle. Didn't really care about a few scratches. Was a little disappointed to see that the date of manufacturing stamped in it was a year old, so 1 out of 5 years gone until the next test.

Clean. Holds the R10A just fine. I only put 6 lbs in it, so I'm not exactly testing the limits. Hopefully buying a DOT approved tank gets me a way to properly offload it to a recycler. After the beating I took trying to buy an adapter at a local HVAC supply house without producing a certificate of mastery, I don't have high hopes. Legislators: If you want to help the environment, enforce one of two things: 1. Require HVAC professionals to offer timely and appropriately priced evacuation services. 2. Make it clear to tradesmen that homeowners are allowed to work on their own property. As it is, pros refuse to show up for a "small" job. But they sure lay into you if you do it yourself. I'll bet a sizeable fraction of well-meaning people, after being bullied by two or three pros, just cut the line and walk away. If you want to regulate reclamation, do it in a way that doesn't punish homeowners for doing it right. This unit doesn't come with an auto-shutoff sensor. Be sure to get the tare weight before you put anything in the tank. Don't fill over 80% full. If you found a place near SLC that will empty the tank without giving you guff, drop me a line.

My tank was received a few days ago, and it came exactly as advertised as far as it's description. That same day I pulled a vacuum with my two stage JB vacuum pump. It did not take more than roughly fifteen minutes to pull it down to 170 microns. In the next ten or fifteen minutes it only went up to 190 microns, which surprised me because I did not expect to receive a tank that dry. This tank would probably work well in a classroom, for using pumped down refrigerant over and over.

Your R22is worth money and can be filtered acid neutralized and recycled. Test for acid and filter and acid treat and test r22 from broken but intact compressor system, before storing, set up bottle with 500 micron vacuum then add 5 psi of r22 if storing bottle recovery ready for later with slight positive pressure. Don’t suck down old system past a few psi positive pressure, let the tech vacuum and have the rest so no air sucked in . Can only be used on your property for other R22 systems you own only by licensed tech to set , can sell to a recovery company.

Alway reliable