Question

I have a dumb question. I moved into a home that has a 22 year old oxygen tank concentrator. Well I was going to throw it out so I wanted to rip it apart and throw it piece by piece to make it easier. Stupid me, not realizing there were three oxygen tanks inside with a do not disconnect warning.



I just want to get rid of it and was hoping someone on these forums may have come across one. With it being 22 years old, can I continue ripping it apart or look for a special place to take it to be destroyed?

Thank you, that's what I figured. I'll call the oxygen business around here and if they can't then I'll call a plumber. It's too risky in my opinion to leave out for someone to try and scrap.

Wow! Weird?
I found a oxygen concentrator a few days ago, attached ropes to it and carried it the ten blocks to home.

I never ever thought I'd find one, ever. This is a beige (not a word we use in NZ) ' suitcase on its side' sorta one.
The oxygen concentrator thing is something I have seen on American TV shows, but I have never seen one used in NZ.

So, I took it home thinking if its got a plug, its probably got a motor or pump, since there's a gas fitting on its side, Copper or Brass piping. And a gas flow meter.
But, I was sorta thinking that I maybe be able to use it for ozoneosis with a industrial ozone generator. For fun.

OK, when I get home I will have a look inside it.

Take it apart and tell what happened. Oh yea, pics would be great.

That is weird, haha. I felt the same way when I moved in and saw a giant clunking R2D2 looking thing. The one here is huge, it actually has wheels so it's easier to move around. If I were to guess, even with the casing taken off, it's about 50 lbs.

I'm not exactly an expert but for the sake of curiosity I looked at it a little, just to give eesakiwi an idea. I have left over neodymium magnets from projects so I figured it best to use those. There is some brass piping inside. There definitely is a motor but not going to go into it much more due to time. The rest of the piping, etc and the cylinders themselves the magnet really didn't stick to. Since I'm not really educated in the matter I'm not going to mess around with the thing much more than that. So if you didn't rip it open yet you should find a decent enough surprise inside.

Even if you wanted to salvage it into something more useful you probably can. I did some googling and people did find creative ways to re-use the machines.