07PSDCREW
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Hello all. We just got our first new to us camper and already have an issue. I set up the camper at the house and wanted to run the heat etc... I turned on the propane and immediately smelled gas. I've narrowed it to one bottle. Upon further inspection I found the rubber gasket inside the bottle where the connection goes in to be crushed real bad and leaking. I swapped bottles to other side and same thing on that same bottle.
Question.... Is this gasket replaceable or should I exchange bottles somewhere??
2nd question.... WHERE do I go to swap a 30lb bottle ? Everywhere I go either fills 20lb bottles or complete swap....
I have two full 20lb grill bottles I think I will use in the mean time...
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naturist
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Sounds like you need to go to an RV dealer who sells propane. Not all of them do, nor do all of them have the wherewithal/interest in attempting to fix such a situation. As for filling a 30 pounder, if they can fill (and not just exchange) a 20, they can fill a 30. Or a 40. Or a 60. Or a 100, for that matter. They are all the same. If they SAY they can't fill anything but a 20, you just have not found the right dealer, yet.
As for exchange, I've never heard of an exchange place that would do 30s. Only 20s.
I don't know if that problem is fixable, but I do know that there are replacement valve kits designed originally to replace the old-style valve assemblies. They didn't always work, sometimes pulling out the old valve left the tank damaged and unusable. I tried it with one, once, to no avail.
Best of luck. And obviously a leaker tank is not very useful, although you could, I suppose, turn it into a steel drum. Gal played just such a drum in church this morning. Very interesting instrument.
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ExRocketScientist
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robsouth wrote:Take them to a local propane dealer not an RV dealer. They can fix you right up in a jiffy.
X2 on that suggestion. You should see all of the stuff that the local propane plant can do.
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robsouth
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Take them to a local propane dealer not an RV dealer. They can fix you right up in a jiffy.
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07PSDCREW
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Ok. Thank you. Down the road from my house here is a place called Suburban Propane. Maybe they can help. I just always thought of them as a "household" propane delivery place. They have the big underground new tanks outside and the big delivery trucks.
Maybe they can get me to the right place if they can't help.
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fla-gypsy
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Any reputable LP dealer can take care of that problem. It is possible the previous owner swapped the gaskets with a type not designed for LP gas and they have failed. The LP dealer will be more than happy to fill your 30 lb cylinders
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robsouth wrote:Take them to a local propane dealer not an RV dealer. They can fix you right up in a jiffy.
X3. My hubby works for such a place. They do that sort of thing fairly often.
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dave54
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As above, go to a propane delaer.
The RV park, or a gas station that sells propane, has a clerk with the 15 minutes of training on how to fill bottles.
A propane dealer has the people that can recognize any problems with the tank or fittings, and how to fix them.
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07PSDCREW
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My hubby works for such a place. They do that sort of thing fairly often.
Would it matter that the tank in question, is of course, full?? In case they should need to change the valve?
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bakerkids
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He said changing the valves and the gasket is a bigger ordeal, and you might want to get different bottles. You don't know why it happened?
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