At 12:33 AM 5/27/2013, Fuzzy :philippe wrote: >It has a little chain attached to it to prevent it from being lost if >it gets unscrewed. The fill valve is the standard ACME-type** fill valve for ASME ***propane tanks used on RVs and fixed installations where a truck comes to fill rather than swap bottles. Any RV place, any propane service facility should have caps for them. **ACME actually refers to the design of the screw thread, a modified square thread with a flat top and 27 degree (included angle) flanks. ***American Society of Mechanical Engineers. ASME-type tanks are much more heavily constructed than BBQ/DOT-type tanks. Yours, David |
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