Coronavirus and homemade tools

[tonyfoale]

Oxygen is Oxygen. The difference between using welding and medical oxygen is the purity of the gas, and cleanliness of the container and delivery system. If it comes down to a choice between suffocating and breathing in a little contaminated oxygen, bring in the welding tank!!!!!

I was going to reply almost exactly the same. If I needed oxygen I hope that I would be in hospital being looked after properly. I only mentioned the welding oxygen as an emergency measure. Here in Spain we are confined to our houses except for certain exceptions like food or medicinal shopping. If I fall sick I would happily use the oxygen that I have knowing full well that it would be of a lower purity than medicinal oxygen, but it would be infinitely preferable to dying. In fact I have brought my oxy bottle up from the downstairs workshop into the house just in case. It seems that this virus can take hold of people very quickly and I doubt that I could get it upstairs if I needed it. i live away from other people and am now mainly confined to home so I am not expecting to catch anything but there is no harm in taking a simple extra precaution.