Point taken - I never actually installed the one I was given, so am lacking in first-hand info. Coby -----Original Message----- From: David Beierl [mailto:dbeierl@attglobal.net] Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 6:22 AM To: Coby Smolens Cc: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Subject: Re: Propane Tank Gauge
At 12:57 AM 8/21/2001, Coby Smolens wrote: >'Course, there's the temperature strip gauge - a thing you stick on that >works essentially the same way a built-in Eveready AA battery tester works, >i.e. a chemical changes color with temperature. Installed on the propane >tank (a flat, self-adhesive strip stuck vertically on the side of the tank), >one pours a cup of hot water on the gauge and the area above the level of >the liquid in the tank heats up more than the area below the surface level >of the LP in the tank, the chemical changes color on the strip above the >propane surface level, and voila! - you know how much is in the tank. I was They're hard to read on the Vanagon tank because the metal is so thick it doesn't give a sharp temperature change the way a BBQ tank does...I struggled with two different ones and gave up. david
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