Date:         Mon, 5 May 2003 18:37:01 -0400
Reply-To:     Brien Dews <brien@ALLGOODTIME.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Brien Dews <brien@ALLGOODTIME.COM>
Subject:      Re: Propane Tank - label?
Comments: To: Harald Rust <harald_nancy_vw@YAHOO.COM>
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Harald,
Do you have any pics of your dual propane tank set up?
Brien
www.busesbythebeach.com
84' Westy (the bus)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Harald Rust" <harald_nancy_vw@YAHOO.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2003 4:45 PM
Subject: Re: Propane Tank - label?


> You can get the labels from Go Westy,
> I think.
> Never had a problem with refilling
> our propane tanks. (ours has two)
> You just have to make sure the
> attendant or if you do it yourself
> wears gloves to protect from freeze-burn
> when they operate the overflow valve.
> The tank does have a float-operated
> auto-shutoff valve, but there is also
> an overflow valve on the top right.
> The only complaints we ever had from
> the attendants was that they had to
> kneel down to refill the tanks.
> I usually just lay a small piece
> of throw-rug on the ground for them.
> Sometimes I ask them, and they let
> me do it myself, if they don't want
> to do it.
> The Westfalia conversions for the
> European markets don't have the overflow
> valve. I met a couple traveling through
> the U.S. with their German spec westy,
> and they could not get the propane tank
> refilled in the U.S., even though the fitting
> matched. No one wanted to touch the tank,
> because it didn't have an overflow valve.
> Btw that tank was 3 times as big as the
> one for the U.S. market., and had a nice
> mechanical propane gauge.
> Harald
> click here if you like to talk about
> vw camping:
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>
>
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