Date:         Sat, 16 May 2015 18:02:23 -0700
Reply-To:     Keith Hughes <keithahughes@YAHOO.COM>
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From:         Keith Hughes <keithahughes@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Re: Fridge problem... which thing is  malfunctioning?
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 Date:    Sat, 16 May 2015 18:55:36 +0000
 From:    Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
 Subject: Re: Fridge problem... which thing is
 malfunctioning?
 
 What if the stove is working? I gather that's not nearly as
 sensitive as
 the fridge. I just put a new Frank Condelli regulator in
 there when mine
 failed four or five years ago. Maybe a little longer. Where
 do you connect
 the manometer tube?
 
 I have had the book as long as I have had the van and have
 found it to be
 of not much help. Your link prompted me to take it out again
 in hopes that
 the contents had magically changed over the years but alas
 they had not.
 
 I'd like to see the manometer setup if there is a link to
 that anywhere.
 
 Jim
 
Jim,

The manometer is simple.  Take about 15 feet of tubing and make a "U" with both legs about 5' long, in a vertical orientation.  Fill the "U" with  water until the water level in each "leg" is a couple of feet (tape it or tie it up so the "U" stays vertical).  Connect the remaining 5' on the long leg to the propane source downstream of the regulator.  Turn the propane on, and measure the difference in height of the water columns in the two legs.  If the "open" leg (not connected to the propane, and open to the atmosphere) water level is 11" above the "propane leg" water level, then the pressure is 11" water column (or WC or WG).

Keith Hughes
'86 Westy Tiico (Marvin)