Mysterious Propane "Leak"
Sorry about the length but I hope with enough details someone can explain what is a mystery to me. After 5 years or so my propane pigtails had hardened. Since the regulator was the original from...
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3 tons wrote:Grit dog wrote:3 tons wrote:
My camper has been sitting for about a month with the propane bottle shut off. After each use, I first shut off the appliances before shutting off the tank valve, because the camper rest in our RV garage…FWIW, after all this time I just checked and the regulator valve is still showing green…
The one thing that I can say is that teflon tape is not intended for use on any of the threaded brass fittings having tapered-ends…
3 tons
You included an extra word when you said “not” in the last sentence.
Hopefully no one follows those directions and just tries to crank pipe thread fittings together without tape or pipe dope….
Wrong, the operative word I used is ‘tapered’ (meaning a compression fitting)…With this type fitting no teflon or pipe dope is used because it might interfere with the compression seal, thereby resulting in a leak…Compression is what does the sealing-in of the gas (and why their use for gases…), threads are not what does the sealing…
For an example check this out at about 13 min in:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBRMRAZykJs
3 tons
10-4.
Flare or compression fittings. Yup.
I read as tapered threads.
Apologies.
