The Lemon Dry Box (Part 2)

The day when my system one box arrived I was excited.  Within a very short period of time I had plumbed in UHP grade nitrogen (at 60 psi) and no sooner did it reach the box then a piece of thermoplastic tubing that runs on top of the solenoid valves for the catalyst bed burst.  I can’t blame Innovative Technology, Inc. for that.  In fact, at the time they didn’t believe it had happened as according to them the tubing was rated for about 1,000 psi!  I took photographs (wish I had retained them) and sent the defective section to Innovative Technology.  They figured it was a fluke from the tubing manufacturer (who it was I have no idea) and I continued to use the remaining good section of the tubing (with no further ruptures).  Despite this the box consumed large quantities of gas even when not in use.  At first I thought this was due to faulty Swagelok components, but as we will see later, it was actually due to the poor connections on top of the solenoid valves (one of which was junk itself) and overall poor design.  It was then that I noticed the gauges on the antechambers were not working.  This triggered an uneasy feeling in my gut, and it was only the beginning of my troubles with the lemon dry box from hell (i.e. Massachusetts).