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TheLostBoy
Explorer
Jun 27, 2017

Strange Propane Tubing in Euro Travel Trailer (small images)

Reposting as I didn't specify a size for the images in my original post and they were so big that it made it unreadable. My wife and I bought an older travel trailer that we are fixing up and we've...
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Matt_Colie
Explorer II
Jun 27, 2017
Kevin,

It has been more than 50 years, but European codes were different than US and Canadian.

Is that 8mm tubing steel?
They did use that. If you want to try to use it and not replumb the entire thing in US code copper, you will have to make friends with McMaster-Carr, they supply just about anything used in western technology.

Their site is pretty straight forward and I just checked and they do have metric compression fittings. They have them in steel and have male adapters with NPT threads.

Good luck.

Matt

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