What is the safe way to fill a propane tank?
I run into three types of propane fill attendants. (Class A horizontal) One just connects to the valve and fills the tank. Another opens the bleed valve as they fill the tank until propane sputters ou...
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Terryallan wrote:
Agree with op 2. Hard to get any gas, or anything into a closed tank. It has got to have somewhere to go.
That's not the purpose of the "bleeder" valve, which is there to show when the tank reaches 80% full. When filling a propane tank, you aren't compressing the gas primarily; you're pumping in liquid propane under pressure. The gaseous propane just condenses back into liquid propane if the pressure exceeds the vapor pressure. (There should not be any other gasses in the tank.) You could fill the tank just as well with the bleeder closed, but you would not know when to stop filling.
