DCHAS-L Discussion List Archive

My 60L price on helium is $900. I may also pay a large delivery fee (it's sent to us fed-ex), then we pay $1.50 or so per day to have the tank - but we are typically done in less than a week - so overall is not over $1000.

We use airgas as our vendor, and that's our Univ. quoted price. I don't know if we get to tag on Lilly's shoulders or not. We are very small, with a small budget, so our quote might be out of some sort of Indiana consortium or something, I'm not sure.

Just FYI - about 2 years ago it was in the $650 range - so I thought it went up considerably. Guess not ;)

Good luck

Dave

> On Aug 24, 2015, at 2:39 PM, Andy Stice wrote:
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> Hello Phillip,
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> On June 9 2015 I paid $1871.45 for 60L of liq He. I also paid an additional $258 for dewar rental.
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> Andy Stice
> Laboratory Manager
> Depts. of Biology & Chemistry
> Illinois College
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> On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 1:06 PM, Trimmer, Philip wrote:
> Hello. I am hoping for a reality check. What are you all paying for 60 liters of liquid helium? I thought prices were to begin falling a couple years ago. Ours just went to $2300.
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> Am I being scammed?
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> Andrew L. Stice
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> Depts. of Biology & Chemistry
> Illinois College
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