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Post subject: hydrostatic testing place?  Posted: 13 Feb 2018, 17:24 |
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Anyone know of the quickest, easiest and least expensive way to get a bottle hydrostatically tested and returned to service with minimal downtime? Needing this is a first for me.
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Post subject: Re: hydrostatic testing place? Posted: 13 Feb 2018, 17:35 |
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Is it a portable bottle or a built in? Some of the local (non-aviation) shops will balk if the aviation regulator is left on the bottle. If this is a built in factory system, then you may want to send the entire unit to someone like Aerospace Turbine Rotables. Wichita was quick last time I used them. https://www.turbinerotables.com/
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Post subject: Re: hydrostatic testing place? Posted: 13 Feb 2018, 17:48 |
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Username Protected wrote: Is it a portable bottle or a built in? Some of the local (non-aviation) shops will balk if the aviation regulator is left on the bottle. If this is a built in factory system, then you may want to send the entire unit to someone like Aerospace Turbine Rotables. Wichita was quick last time I used them. https://www.turbinerotables.com/That's perfect. Thank you. This seems rather silly to pull the nitrogen bottle out every 3 years and do this, ever heard of one blowing up?
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Post subject: Re: hydrostatic testing place? Posted: 13 Feb 2018, 17:54 |
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Not in an airplane but in general yes, I have seen a damaged tank rupture and it wasn't pretty.
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Post subject: Re: hydrostatic testing place? Posted: 13 Feb 2018, 22:00 |
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Username Protected wrote:
This seems rather silly to pull the nitrogen bottle out every 3 years and do this, ever heard of one blowing up?
No, since they are all tested evety 3 Years.  You also have the fire bottles and the O2 bottle in your Citation that need periodic testing.
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Post subject: Re: hydrostatic testing place? Posted: 13 Feb 2018, 22:40 |
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Username Protected wrote:
This seems rather silly to pull the nitrogen bottle out every 3 years and do this, ever heard of one blowing up?
A nitrogen bottle used as an accumulator on an A4 Skyhawk for the canopy system blew up while a tech was servicing it at my friend's shop. Hit him in the forehead and knocked him off the maintenance stand he was on...Somehow he survived, with a new oddly shaped head...the point is yes it does happen, albeit rarely. Jeff
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Post subject: Re: hydrostatic testing place? Posted: 13 Feb 2018, 23:00 |
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Username Protected wrote: If this is a built in factory system, then you may want to send the entire unit to someone like Aerospace Turbine Rotables. Wichita was quick last time I used them. https://www.turbinerotables.com/These guys are good and reasonably priced. Try them-
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Post subject: Re: hydrostatic testing place? Posted: 13 Feb 2018, 23:07 |
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Username Protected wrote: Can't a dive shop do it? Other than a few very rare exceptions, dive shops don’t do their own hydros. They send it to the same place to local fire extinguisher company and similar places use. Better to skip the shop’s markup and take it direct to the testing facility.
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Post subject: Re: hydrostatic testing place? Posted: 15 Feb 2018, 17:01 |
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https://www.c-l-aero.com/I have experience with these folks. Quick turnaround. If you want your regulator checked, they do that also.
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Post subject: Re: hydrostatic testing place? Posted: 15 Feb 2018, 17:20 |
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In the L.A. area, Tym's is good: Tym's Incorporated 414 W Arbor Vitae St Inglewood, CA 90301 Phone : (310) 953-3353 Email : info@tymsinc.com www.tymsinc.com
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