At 18:54 25 January 2020, Tom BravoMike wrote:
On Friday, January 24, 2020 at 11:20:23 PM UTC-6, Jonathan St.
Cloud wrote:
On Friday, January 24, 2020 at 2:21:35 PM UTC-8, Bob
Kuykendall wrote:
On Friday, January 24, 2020 at 12:44:33 PM UTC-8, Jonathan
St. Cloud
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ote:
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Using medical O2 for aviation...
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I thought we settled this twenty years ago.
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https://www.avweb.com/features/pelic...3getting-high-
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-oxygen/
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Medical, welding, and aviator's breathing oxygen are all
produced
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the same processes and equipment. Not just similar. They're all
the exact
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same stuff from the same tap.
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The only differences are what they're dispensed into and how
they're
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ed. The requirements for purity and cleanliness in all compressed
oxygen
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plications are such that the baseline specifications for all are the
same.
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--Bob K.
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I mis-spoke, I meant to say jury rigging med O2 equipment for
a purpose
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ot intended, could be hazardous to one's health. Kind of thought
that was
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implied, forgot an engineer or two populates these pages. I have
had
hypox=
ia before during a contest out of INYK. I later realized I had mixed
equip=
ment from Aerox and MH. Aerox oxyisaver cannula cannot be
used with MH
equ=
ipment. I would strongly encourage anyone to use the equipment
from the
ma=
nufacturer, read the instructions and not attempt to jury rig a mix
of med
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O2 and aviation O2 equipment.

What/where is INYK? Sorry, can't find it.

Inyokern Airport (IATA: IYK, ICAO: KIYK, FAA LID: IYK)