Self-induced "one thing after another and another..."
I sent our group's Camp Chef grill up to the campsite with a friend, and assumed he had a 20 lb propane bottle ... :)
So, when we arrived and discovered no propane for the grill, I figured I would just pull one of my 30 lb bottles off the trailer for the weekend.
However, with 1 bottle removed and 1 bottle still in place, the regulator slid down the all thread enough that it put enough strain on the "flex" (intentionally in quotes) hose to cause a leak at the swivel crimp end. I quoted "flex" because these pigtails say "flex" hose but since new, had pretty much zero flexibility to them.
So, I moved the bottle to the empty side and hooked it up, whereas that pigtail leaked at the bottle connector!
Removed and inspected the o-ring, which had a small fleck of debris on it. Cleaned that off and the leak then moved to the crimp at the swivel at the regulator end.
Lovely! 2 pigtails failed at the same place, and we're 30 miles from the nearest propane parts supply.
Fortunately, another camper took a hose off his trailer and loaned it to me to get us through the weekend, and all turned out ok.
Time to find a couple of new pigtails! Oh, and also complete a mod I have put off for 5 years now, to put another nut down the all thread under the regulator bracket, to keep it from dropping down the stand.
So, when we arrived and discovered no propane for the grill, I figured I would just pull one of my 30 lb bottles off the trailer for the weekend.
However, with 1 bottle removed and 1 bottle still in place, the regulator slid down the all thread enough that it put enough strain on the "flex" (intentionally in quotes) hose to cause a leak at the swivel crimp end. I quoted "flex" because these pigtails say "flex" hose but since new, had pretty much zero flexibility to them.
So, I moved the bottle to the empty side and hooked it up, whereas that pigtail leaked at the bottle connector!
Removed and inspected the o-ring, which had a small fleck of debris on it. Cleaned that off and the leak then moved to the crimp at the swivel at the regulator end.
Lovely! 2 pigtails failed at the same place, and we're 30 miles from the nearest propane parts supply.
Fortunately, another camper took a hose off his trailer and loaned it to me to get us through the weekend, and all turned out ok.
Time to find a couple of new pigtails! Oh, and also complete a mod I have put off for 5 years now, to put another nut down the all thread under the regulator bracket, to keep it from dropping down the stand.
