I just replaced my valves on my tank which I had sand blasted and powder
coated white. ($75) don't mess with jury rigged valves on something as
critical as a propane tank. Get the correct valve. You would not want a
mistake to happen from an incorrect valve like an explosion would you?

The adapter idea is great however and I wish I had done it.

William Polowniak
http://members.home.net/holisticdream/vanagon1989.htm

----- Original Message -----
From: "Edward Maglott" <emaglott@BUNCOMBE.MAIN.NC.US>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Monday, December 31, 2001 7:58 AM
Subject: a propane tank idea

> I have a propane tank for my westy that has no fill valve.  The PO just
> told me the propane system didn't work.  Upon removal and inspection I
> find that the tank is rusty, but seems sound.  The fill valve seems to
> have been replaced by something that looks like a small water spigot,
> obviously not viable.  Since that  new automatic fill valve is so dang
> expensive, I got an idea...
>
> Suppose I put on the tank a filler like is on a bbq tank, then only fill
> it when it is empty and tell the filler person the correct amount of
> propane to put in, so as not to overfill the tank.  But it would be a pain
> to run out of propane while camping.  So my solution to that is the
> adapter that allows hooking the disposable bottle to the big tank.  That
> would allow getting by until a trip to the propane filling station is
> possible.
>
> Comments?
>
> Edward