Updates
This page outlines Updates and Interpretations that affect testing.
Special Permits Expired / Pending Renewal Click Here
Many Special Permits can still be used, others cannot. **Updated 01/26/2011**
Sidewall Stamping in Cylinders Click Here
Be Careful! These cylinders cannot be requalified, they are to be condemned.
Which CGA Pamphlets am I supposed to have?
Click Here to find out. While this is no change or update, you may have been given the wrong information! Here also is DOT's Letter of Interpretation.
Cylinders not "transported in commerce".
Check this out! This may be different from what you have heard in the past. NOTE: DOT's comment, "A cylinder marked to certify that it conforms to HMR requiremnents must be maintained in accordance with applicable specification requirements whether or not it is transported in commerce at any particular time." See Letter of interpretation.
Who can do the Eddy Current Examination?
Click here for the DOT response.
6351 Alloy Aluminum Requires Eddy Current Examination.
Click here for the Federal Register Update.
Can just ANYONE condemn a cylinder?
Click here for the DOT response.
Only One Repeated Test Allowed
In this letter of "interpretation", the DOT says you can only repeat the test on a cylinder once. This is clearly a RULE CHANGE, not an interpretation. I have written a petition for reconsideration. Download the original letter from Bill McDonald, the DOT's response, and my rebuttal below:
Click here to download the Repeated Tests Letters.
DOT Statement on Paintball Cylinders Sept. 15, 2000
Hey! Now HERE is a GOOD response!!! Get the 3HT letter on paintball cylinders.
