Ran out of propane in TEN DAYS!?
Hello :) I'm a brand new full-time RVer. This morning I woke up to a freezing camper as we had ran out of propane during the night. We sold our home and moved into our RV on Oct. 19. I've only coo...
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Mexico maybe looser n a goose with cheatyourassoff gasoline pumps, but consumers draw the line with market weight scales and "gas" (propane and butane) sales. 23 years ago I went around for a couple of years with a 500 gram NIST calibration weight. Markets let me use it when there was no one around. I explained this was for their benefit. Three or four or five (?memory?) took disposable camera pictures of the weight sitting atop their scale and of the NIST trace document (which was a laser copy). Half a Kg is not a lot of weight, but a couple of "gas" dispensing places let me use it on their lpg dispensing platforms. They were right on the money.
And yes, I was nuts enough to get a stainless steel 20 liter NIST test measure from the Seraphin Test Measure Co, of Rancocas NJ. I measured over 300 dispensers down here. From coast to coast, Mexico to Guatemala. Paul Carroll, bureau chief of the Wall Street Journal Mexico City and I tested a downtown dispenser (Reforma and Insurgentes) and the test appeared in the October 1994 Wall Street Journal NAFTA edition). Carroll, kept the NIST document.
And yes, I was nuts enough to get a stainless steel 20 liter NIST test measure from the Seraphin Test Measure Co, of Rancocas NJ. I measured over 300 dispensers down here. From coast to coast, Mexico to Guatemala. Paul Carroll, bureau chief of the Wall Street Journal Mexico City and I tested a downtown dispenser (Reforma and Insurgentes) and the test appeared in the October 1994 Wall Street Journal NAFTA edition). Carroll, kept the NIST document.
