Date:         Tue, 21 Aug 2001 01:08:31 -0500
Reply-To:     wilden1@JUNO.COM
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Subject:      Re: Propane Tank Gauge
Comments: To: dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET
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I've seen propane tank gauges that cost about $2.98 at the Northwest
Butane location in Dallas Texas.
They are a simple devise, just really a piece of tape that contains the
same chemicals that were used in mood rings. It tapes to your tank and
the color changes at the point where you LP fuel ends and the air begins.
In effect when your tank is full it is bright orange, at half full the
bottom is bright orange and the top is white.
Of course you've got to get down there to look at it but its just dirt
simple.

Stan Wilder
83 Westfalia Air Cooled.

On Tue, 21 Aug 2001 00:24:55 -0400 David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
writes:
> At 10:53 PM 8/20/2001, harald_nancy wrote:
> >Surprised there isn't more response about the propane gauge,
> >because a working propane gauge would be the greatest thing to have
> >on a westfalia.
>
> ...
>
> >. The problem with that gauge is that it is basically
> >a propane pressure gauge, and doesn't show you the actual propane
> level
>
> That's why.  It doesn't produce a meaningful reading until all the
> liquid
> is gone, at which point you're practically out anyway.  Unless
> there's
> something fundamental that I missed here.
>
> david
>
>
> David Beierl - Providence, RI
>   http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/
> '84 Westy "Dutiful Passage"
> '85 GL "Poor Relation"

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