At 08:01 PM 7/4/2009, Alan Felder wrote: >I was under the impression that you should not have any grease or >oil in the gas delivery. That's a big deal for high-pressure oxygen, but the propane won't initiate any reaction with oil, they're both petroleum in different forms. When I took the tank off my '84 for cleaning and painting, there was a quantity (few tablespoons maybe?) of extremely smelly oil in it -- I would imagine that the commercial propane sometimes has some admixture of oil, that accumulates in the tank.
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