Mike,

Are you going to replace your autofill with a manual valve yourself?  Nobody
in my town who deals with propane would do it (I asked everywhere).  The
local propane company (not RV company) rebuilt my autofill valve, and that
is where I take it to be refilled when it runs out.  They use an extension
piece since my tank is so close to the ground and it's near impossible to
fill without it.  I've considered buying an extension to keep in Lola for
use outside my local area, should it run out while I'm away from home.  But
I decided the backup stove and portable propane bottles I keep in Lola wil
get me through should that happen.  It's happened twice in the past year so
no big deal.

Ellen
Lola, '85 Vanagon ASI

----Original Message Follows----
From: Michael Elliott <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
Reply-To: Michael Elliott <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
To:
Subject: Re: Fed up with Auto-fill valve
Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2007 17:56:13 -0700

I'll be hornswoggled. Maybe I have been running into more than my share
of inexperienced or incompetent propane tank attendants. It doesn't seem
to be a standard fitting to some of the folk that fill my tank.

The copy for a manual replacement propane fill valve at
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=426729 states that
"...propane tank attendants actually know how to use the manual filling
valve---a big bonus."

Yeah -- a big bonus the next time some propane jockey spends 10 minutes
trying to figure out how to put LPG into the tank.

--
Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano
KG6RCR

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