Propane overfill by a "professional"
Looks like I'll be shopping for a new local propane guy. Which I should have already done, but there's only one last straw. I took one of my 30# cylinders down to fill from dead empty. This genius ...
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Ohhh, it's a very bad idea simply to add ~7 temp-corrected gallons to a cylinder because it fails to take into account any residual propane in the cylinder. Ultimately, that's just the kind of unsafe practice that the OPD valves are supposed to prevent.
I'll go ahead and mention why OPDs themselves should not be used as a tool for professional fillers: OPDs are installed when the cylinder is manufactured/updated, but they are never checked again. By contrast, professional filling equipment (scales, etc.) is checked independently on a regular basis. You can see this by little stickers similar to the ones you see on gasoline pumps.
At best, then, OPDs are a last-stop attempt to stop the carnage that used to occur when people would home-fill cylinders right up to the top, almost guaranteeing the uncontrolled release of some rather explosive stuff.
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Lynn
I'll go ahead and mention why OPDs themselves should not be used as a tool for professional fillers: OPDs are installed when the cylinder is manufactured/updated, but they are never checked again. By contrast, professional filling equipment (scales, etc.) is checked independently on a regular basis. You can see this by little stickers similar to the ones you see on gasoline pumps.
At best, then, OPDs are a last-stop attempt to stop the carnage that used to occur when people would home-fill cylinders right up to the top, almost guaranteeing the uncontrolled release of some rather explosive stuff.
:(
Lynn
red31 wrote:eubank wrote:
- Filling by weight involves weighing on a scale.
- Filling by volume involves use of the "spew" valve. (It never involves simply filling by gallon.)
The OP's cylinder was filled by neither even though the spew valve was used.
The metered 7.6 gal is temp corrected gals. ;) The OP got less.
