Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2007 21:19:42 -0400
Reply-To: Mike Collum <collum@VERIZON.NET>
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From: Mike Collum <collum@VERIZON.NET>
Subject: Re: Fed up with Auto-fill valve
In-Reply-To: <461054AD.6070603@gmail.com>
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The biggest problem fill attendants seem to have with auto-fill valves
is not opening the "Bleed" ALL the way. Manual bleeders only have to be
cracked open and that's what they usually try to do with the auto-fill
types. The auto-fill systems will not take a charge with the bleeder
just cracked open.
Mike
Michael Elliott wrote:
> Dennis typed:
>> There is really nothing special about the auto-fill valve. It is standard
>> fare in the RV world.
>
>
> I'll be hornswoggled. Maybe I have been running into more than my share
> of inexperienced or incompetent propane tank attendants. It doesn't seem
> to be a standard fitting to some of the folk that fill my tank.
>
> The copy for a manual replacement propane fill valve at
> http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=426729 states that
> "...propane tank attendants actually know how to use the manual filling
> valve---a big bonus."
>
> Yeah -- a big bonus the next time some propane jockey spends 10 minutes
> trying to figure out how to put LPG into the tank.
>
> --
> Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
> 71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
> 84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
> 74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano
> KG6RCR
>
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