Date:         Wed, 11 Apr 2012 11:49:42 -0700
Reply-To:     Jeff Schwaia <vw.doka@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Jeff Schwaia <vw.doka@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: "Remote" Propane Tank Usage
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Many campers in Germany have the propane tank located inside the vehicle.
Not a big deal.

Cheers,

Jeff

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
mark drillock
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 10:11 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: "Remote" Propane Tank Usage

I'm not sure what you are ranting about in this case. As the original post
mentioned, propane is widely used here in the US. This is being done in a
very casual way. I can buy filled bottles from at least a dozen places
within a mile or two of my house. In that same radius there are thousands of
backyard BBQ with those tanks in use. You don't need a permit to use it, no
one checks your BBQ hookup for safety, you don't have to show ID to buy it.
It is not treated as especially dangerous when used OUTSIDE.

The stock Westy tank has safety advantages and is installed such as to meet
certain regulatory compliance so the vehicles could be sold as meeting that
compliance. You don't need or want to meet that yourself, so you don't.
There are risks to what you are doing and you knowingly choose to take those
risks. Go for it.

Mark


Don Hanson wrote:
>
>    World-wide, propane is widely used.   Most other countries do not treat
> it as if it's as potentially lethal as say Nuclear Waste, like we seem
> to do here in the US.


> On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 5:34 AM, Chris S<szpejankowski@gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> It seems like propane tanks are widely available in the US.  Everyone
>> from a grocery store to a gas station has them.  Has anyone removed
>> their on-board tank and adapted their Westfalia system to work with those
tanks?
>> I would seem one would mount the regulator, a shut-off valve and a
>> connector in the place of the existing Westfalia tank.
>>
>> --
>> Chris S.
>> "No solution is too complex to be executed incorrectly"
>>
>