Date:         Wed, 25 Jul 2007 20:13:03 -0300
Reply-To:     David Etter <detter@MAIL.AURACOM.COM>
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From:         David Etter <detter@MAIL.AURACOM.COM>
Subject:      Re: Egg on face (was: whiff of propane)
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YES!
        Now I remember!  Don't feel bad Mike. That exact thing
happened to me too, when the greasy, baggy pants 16 year old
know-it-all "propane jockey" wouldn't let me help.
        I ended up paying for far more propane than was possible to put in.
        The only up side was he kept burning (freezing) his fingers
on the bleeder valve when he had to keep refilling the tank. I'm some
glad there wasn't a spark near that cloud of propane.
        I was well down the road at another stop before I discovered it.

                                David(dsl82westy)
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>Propane jockey hadn't fully closed the auto-stop's bleeder valve when
>she filled it the last time. A touch with a pair of pliers, and the
>propane smell is gone.
>
>I could blame her, she is supposed to know what she's doing, but this is
>an old valve and I have chosen to drive about in an old vehicle. What
>does Bob Hoover say? "You're the mechanic in charge."
>
>--
>
>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