IDEST Composite Cylinder Course
Extending your inspection scope to composite cylinders
A short course for technicians who already inspect and test steel and aluminium cylinders and need to add composites.
It works to EN ISO 11623 and covers how composite cylinders are built, how they fail, and what can and cannot be repaired.
Training is delivered by Mark Taylor, who holds Wiltshire Scuba’s IDEST Training Centre TC021 accreditation, in our own working workshop.
Who Is This Course For?
- IDEST test centre technicians already qualified on steel and aluminium cylinders
- Centres asked to test composite cylinders
- Technicians extending their centre’s scope
What You Will Be Able To Do
On completing the course you will be able to:
- Understand how a composite cylinder is constructed
- Visually assess a composite cylinder inside and out
- Decide whether damage needs repair, and which method applies
- Hydraulically test a composite cylinder
What The Course Covers
- Cylinder and composite manufacture
- Types of composite cylinder
- Inspecting and testing composite cylinders
- Repairing damage
- Valve inspection, refurbishment, replacement and torquing
- Labelling a composite cylinder
- What to do when you find a problem
Practical Workshop Training
The course runs partly as a presentation and partly in the workshop, and the workshop element is the point of it. You will do the work yourself rather than watch it being done.
Class sizes are small, so you get individual coaching rather than a demonstration from the back of a room.
Entry Requirements
You should already be a qualified IDEST test centre technician, able to inspect and test steel and aluminium cylinders.
This is a scope extension rather than a starting point. If you are not there yet, speak to us about the pathway.
Duration, Price and What You Receive
- Duration: one to three hours
- Price: £170
- Tuition from Mark Taylor, our IDEST approved trainer
- Practical assessment of composite cylinders
- A student manual
- A certificate of attendance
Why Train With Wiltshire Scuba
We are an IDEST training centre (TC021), held by Mark Taylor. Mark also holds our separate IDEST Test Centre (D7) accreditation for customer equipment servicing — so you’re taught by someone who does the job, not only teaches it, in our own workshop, on our own equipment.
- Training in a genuine, working test facility
- Small groups and individual instructor feedback
- Real equipment and real documentation
- Honest advice about which course you actually need
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Common Questions
Why is it so much shorter than the other courses?
Because it extends a skill you already have rather than teaching it from scratch. It assumes you can already inspect and test steel and aluminium cylinders.
Which standard does it work to?
EN ISO 11623.
Can composite cylinders be repaired?
Some damage can be, and part of the course is knowing which.
Not Sure Which Course You Need?
Give us a ring or call in. We would rather point you at the right course than sell you the wrong one.