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Old 02-17-2017, 07:24 AM
cliffrod cliffrod is offline
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Originally Posted by crystallographic View Post
Hi Rick,
I have known about the dirty Ar for many years, back to early '90's.
Our filter is .1 micron catchable, but don't know what type of contaminants are prevalent. I'd be happy to test a known bottle of bad Ar, to see. Or loan a filter out to test on a known bottle of bad Ar. ...

About the time our big supplier took their lousy acet generation off line to replace it the shortage came up. I remember when mag went up, first the major US stockpile burned for two weeks and then one of the largest mfrs went up. Price went triple in months.
Never knew why the price jumped, just know that it did. I had chalked it up as similar to comparable fast price jumps in copper/lead/scrap in general (especially resulting wholesale batteries and tire prices) about a decade ago.
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