Date:         Tue, 21 Aug 2001 23:01:19 -0700
Reply-To:     Coby Smolens <cobys5@HOME.COM>
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From:         Coby Smolens <cobys5@HOME.COM>
Subject:      Re: Propane Tank Gauge
Comments: To: David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net>
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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


David Beierl - Providence, RI
  http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/
'84 Westy "Dutiful Passage"
'85 GL "Poor Relation"