http://www.articlesender.com/articles/article6375.html

Quote from site above:  "(OPD devices have been required on ASME tanks
since l984 and DOT cylinders since l998)".

Our Westy tanks like most mounted RV tanks are ASME rated vessels. So, any
propane supplier that fills anything besides BBQ tanks should be able to
fill it and the service area should be able to fix it.

Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
Michael Elliott
Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2007 8:56 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Fed up with Auto-fill valve

Dennis typed:
> There is really nothing special about the auto-fill valve. It is
standard
> fare in the RV world.

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