Date:         Thu, 21 Mar 2002 11:48:16 -0500
Reply-To:     "G. Matthew Bulley" <gmbulley@BULLEY-HEWLETT.COM>
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From:         "G. Matthew Bulley" <gmbulley@BULLEY-HEWLETT.COM>
Organization: Bulley-Hewlett
Subject:      Re: Need help with propane filling! Can the fill valve stick?
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Just make sure that if your tank is truly "empty" or has been very low
on propane, that you have a vacuum pulled on the tank.

All you want in that tank is Propane... if you start off with 4 gallons
of air in there, it will take MANY re-filllings (if ever) to burn all
the air out... your fridge will work poorly, your stove flame will be
irregular.

From historic, walkable Mount Olive, NC,

G. Matthew Bulley
Bulley-Hewlett
Corporate Communications
Business: www.bulley-hewlett.com
Alliance: www.ntara.com
Home: www.MountOliveNC.info

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On Behalf
Of gary hradek
Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 11:39 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Need help with propane filling! Can the fill valve stick?

Steve,
     The key to a good fill is
with an empty tank ask the filler to put in 2 gallons
slowly, about two to three minutes.   Find someone you
can work with and help him by offering to count down
from the two gallons and tip him afterwards.
The uhaul people are not a bad choice.
            gary
Date:    Wed, 20 Mar 2002 19:49:58 -0600
From:    Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Subject: Re: Need help with propane filling! Can the
fill valve stick?

I've had my tank filled in Arkansas, Louisiana, City
of Dallas and
various lakes around Texas and I've never had any
problems. The
attendants loosen the bleeder and fill the tank
slowly, it just fills
and
tops off without any problems.

Stan Wilder

On Wed, 20 Mar 2002 17:19:55 -0800 Steve Arbaugh
<sneakers@OZ.NET>
writes:
> This was the course strongly recommended to me by
the gent who filled
> my
> tank yesterday. I've been having increasing
difficulty in getting
> the tank
> filled, and when I asked specifically about
rebuilding/replacing the
> current
> fill valve or replace it with the manual type, there
was no
> hesitation in
> his answer. This wasn't the typical propane monkey,
by the way, but
> one of
> the folks who work at Suburban Propane. He was able
to get the tank
> filled
> with a little persistence.
>
> This also follows the general comments from other
"attendants" who
> have
> tried to fill this tank in the past. When I query
them about the
> current
> valve vs. a manual one, they all claimed to have
knowledge on "open
> the
> bleeder, fill till it squirts, close everything."
Seems pretty
> simple..
>
> Steve
> '85 westy
> kent, wa


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