Houston, What happened to N20 prices?
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Some of you guys may remember I just moved back to houston last month from being gone for 6 years (Military). Anyway, just gotta ask, why is n20 refills $4/lb? Just seems a bit ridiculous, since we all used to pay around $2.50/$3.00 lb. I'm pretty sure n20 didn't become scarce over the time I was out
A little insight please.
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That's what I'm sayin'. n2o hasn't turned into a low supply/high demand item I'm sure. I typically put 2 bottles through my motor a week and I know there are guys that go through a LOT more than that. Somethings gotta give here. $4/lb is crazy.
If anyone has a little dough to spend and is looking to make an immediate nice side income, get a refill station, set up with Airgas to get 5 mother bottles, sell it at $2.75-3/lb, advertise, repeat the next week.
If anyone has a little dough to spend and is looking to make an immediate nice side income, get a refill station, set up with Airgas to get 5 mother bottles, sell it at $2.75-3/lb, advertise, repeat the next week.
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Mother Bottles are about 150-180 a piece to fill up now a days depending on where you get them. you can get about 4 full 10# bottles and a little extra. out of one big bottle. That's what driving prices up.
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Airgas is the only company that sells n20 they have the market cornered right now that is why prices are so high. I fill my own bottles and I get about 5 fill ups per big bottle[if im lucky]. So I get 50lbs of n20 and I pay 130.00 for the fill ups of the big bottles thats $2.60 per lb. By the time you pay 650.00 for the refill station and 200.00 for the big bottles before filling them up you will have over 1000.00 tied up into a decent setup . you dont save that much money unless you use a lot of n2o its not worth it. If you go through 2 bottles a week you need to get a refill station.
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U LUZ: Thanks for the explanation. I was just havin' a hard time wrapping my head around what was goin' on. Guess I gotta get a refill station...not such a bad thing.