Heck, half full is better than empty! A professional propane filling
machine only fills the tank to 80%.
--

Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
83.5 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
KG6RCR

On 5/16/2005 8:35 AM Robert Cardo wrote:

>  <<The tricky part with the Westy bottle is you'd need to elevate and
>invert the 5-gallon supply tank above the Westy bottle, then figure out
>how to connect the two. I don't know if the pressure in the supply tank
>is sufficient to fill the Westy bottle, or if additional pressure is
>needed.>>
>--
>Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
>
>Here ya go.
>As soon as the pressure equalizes between the two tanks the fill up will
>cease.
>
>So you'll have a half of a BBQ tank and whatever the Westy tank took.
>The brakes on the fill up are now set.
>
>You'll need a pump to overcome this  equalization phenomena.
>
>Now your spending the $2900.00
>
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