Re: [MV] Welding gas cylinder colours

Richard Notton (Richard@fv623.demon.co.uk)
Sun, 4 Oct 1998 16:22:37 +0100

-----Original Message-----
From: Andreas Mehlhorn <a.mehlhorn@t-online.de>
To: djr@enterprise.powerup.com.au <djr@enterprise.powerup.com.au>
Cc: mil-veh@skylee.com <mil-veh@skylee.com>
Date: 04 October 1998 10:26
Subject: [MV] Welding gas cylinder colours

David Robinson schrieb:
>>
>> ...currently in Australia, we use black for oxygen and a maroon/red
>> for acetylene which I suppose is based on an international code -
>>
>I'm not sure, what the US colour code is, but the international used
>colour code for gas cylinders is:
>
>oxygen = blue
>acetylene = yellow
>other flammable gases = red
>nitrogen = green
>other inert gases = grey
>
Have been black for oxygen and maroon for acetylene for as long as I can
remember and still are here.

Richard
(Southampton UK)

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