One Pound Propane Re fill Adapter

kaydeejay wrote:

Irish2 wrote:
Has anyone used the adapter to put on your 30 lbs tank to enable you to refill the 1 lb disposable tanks. I was looking into purchasing one to avoid lugging around the 20 lb tank for my BBQ.

While the chances of getting caught are slim, the process is illegal in Canada.
Read this advisory.
In the US it is illegal to transport refilled containers across State lines (!).
As I say, chances of getting caught are slim unless there is a problem.

The reason it is illegal is because some people overfill the disposable tank, and they can rupture, leak gas into say a trunk of a car, then explode the car when the truck is opened and a spark is created by the key or lock.

So make sure that the tank is not to full.

Much better idea is to get a 1 gallon refillable LP gas tank. CampingWorld.com sells them, though they are much more expensive than the typical 30 pound cylinder, there are just not that many manufactured, so cost of scale is much more expensive than a tank that is produced by the hundreds every week.

I had a 1 gallon tank that I refilled every spring, and it would last much of the summer, running the BBQ and propane lantern. 1 gallon is about 95,000 Btu's of heat, or enough to run a 19,000 Btu BBQ about 5 hours.

Fred.