Oxygen concentrator purchasing advice

Yes the purified oxygen. My concentrator that I bought-alarms are not working. I am not sure if it really was refurbished! So hard to find reputable places to buy concentrator without medical prescription. Any suggestions please?

Torch doesn’t stay lit. I sent the torch set up to Richard at Paige tools and he said the torch set up is working fine. So it has to do with the concentrator

I live near Syracuse NY. There is a business named Bio-Med Express in Baldwinsville, NY that sells reconditioned O2 concentrators. I bought one from them a couple years ago and they will rebuild it if it needs it. Google Extreme Oxygen. I bought my first concentrator from them. They are hard to deal with, but seem to sell to Rio and others. I saw an ad in our local pennysaver for O2 concentrators. When I called them, they said that they are in Denver. Not sure why they advertise in a very local paper. They said that all you should need to buy a reconditioned O2 concentrator from them is a copy of your business certificate (W9). Good luck…Rob

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Thank you for the all the information.

I bought one from Extreme Oxygen also, or maybe Advanced Oxygen, not sure which. My memory has it that they are two brothers that had a falling out and one is definitely easier to deal with than the other. Great prices though.

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I don’t have one handy to look at, but I think the sieve bed is the most likely part to fail. Pretty sure I managed to resuscitate one in an old machine that was given to me. They’re pretty basic devices, but I’m sure a specialist will be of more help here.

The guy who I bought my rebuilt machine from said that a healthy set of sieve beds will run 10,000 hours. They are made to be run 24/7 and that it is actually best to run them regularly even if you don’t need the O2. If I am in my shop I will make sure it runs every other day even if I don’t use the torch. I change the filters once a year and write the date and hour reading on the new filter when I install it. Last year I ran my O2 concentrator a total of 260 hours. That works out to 38 years. I am sure that something else will break before then, probably me…Rob

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Thank you for the info. Encouraging

Hi Rob,

regarding using an oxygen concentrator with my smith little torch…do i need to by special fittings? or will my hose fittings fit?…

julie

If you don’t already know about A and B fittings, following is a link to a discussion of them. You need to adapt the concentrator output to a B type fitting as this is what the Little Torch is shipped with, at least according to the current Rio website. The concentrator may terminate in a spline type slip fitting. You will have to buy some hose that can be made into a B type fitting on one end and a slip connection on the other. Some concentrators ship with a short adapter hose to do this for you. They may be hidden inside the compartment, so look for it or see if you can buy one from the people who sell the concentrator. You will also need to figure out what size fitting your flashbacks and check valves have and adapt to them. Welding shops or even a place like McMaster Carr will sell A to B adapters. Remember that gas tightens right to left and O2 left to right, so these fittings are gas specific. Good luck…Rob

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Following is a link to pictures of my propane and O2 setup that is shared by both a Meco and Little Torch…Rob

https://photos.app.goo.gl/jwZescBDac4yFm1U8

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Hi Rob!

thanks! i will investigate further now that i know what to search for!

julie

Looks like I copied and pasted a UPS tracking report and not the link to a discussion of A and B fittings. Following should be the right link from the Tin Man’s website…Rob

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Hi Rob,
thank you for the link !

julie