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Those are really cool... too bad they don’t make a 250 gallon one... I would buy it in a heartbeat
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Wow, I cant afford one like that but if I could it certainly makes sense. The advantage of my steel tank is that when it gets old enough I can make a tent stove out of it. Problem with that is they don't seem to wear out. I've had both my tanks for 30 years.
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I have two tanks I can’t re-cert
Jim, you might look up how much a new steel tank is... they are quite comparable in price.
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I cant say how much they are except @ Walgreens you can exchange your tank for a full tank for $20 or if you don't have a tank you can buy a full tank for $40.
That makes the cost of the new steel tank only $20.
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Even if they are $80 there, full of gas, that is half the cost of fiberglass tank empty of similar capacity.
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No, that’s empty. I don’t buy exchange tanks as I have found them to be unreliable... some have been 25% or less full... getting a tank filled, I know it’s filled to max capacity because the gas starts escaping at 100%.
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It costs me $18.75 to fill a #20 tank from empty to full @ a little over 6.6 gallons of propane.
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That's the reason mine are 30+ years old. I fill them at the propane distributor for only a few dollars a tank, I think $2.75 a gallon. If I bought the devise that transfers propane to small tanks I could fill my tanks from my 250 gal tank. I have bought the exchange tanks from Walgreens for my gas BBQ and they usually last me a couple of years. I need to buy the propane guage so that I can see how much I have in a tank. Buying all this stuff keeps you hopping for sure and they are all necessary goods not wanna's.
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That's cheap compared to my supplier. But being rural all the price of things here are tourist priced, plus we are 60 miles from an interstate so we pay the price being rural and historically high on tourist travel. Gasoline is $0.40 cents cheaper just 60 miles away from Silver City NM. I live 25 miles from silver so the gas out in my local gas station is another $0.20 a gal higher than in town.
Did you need to get those 30 year old tanks recertified? I thought they had to be replaced or recertified at 10 years?
Fiberglass tanks are great. The Marine industry is a big user of them. I just wish they made one in 8" diameter.
Fiberglass tanks are great. The Marine industry is a big user of them. I just wish they made one in 8" diameter.
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No one has ever refused me on re-fills. The 250 g tank at my home has never been re-certified since the propane co. Put it there 25 years ago. It's a rental that I pay $60 a year for.
My acyetaline tank has not been re-filled in 25 years also but what they do is just exchange bottles with me when I go to fill it since I own my bottle. I know they won't fill old bottles.
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Three twenty pound tanks - two on the camper and one on the roof rack in a steel oversized milk crate that holds the tank and cast iron Hibachi grill. We cook on old school Coleman liquid fuel stoves but the furnace in the camper will go through some propane in sub-freezing temps. The water heater and fridge aren't that bad.
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The Campfire-in-a-Can is also a large consumer but darned handy to keep the cook's helper warm while grandpa is getting breakfast ready.
.The Campfire-in-a-Can is also a large consumer but darned handy to keep the cook's helper warm while grandpa is getting breakfast ready.
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ha ha, all the conveniences of home I see. Nice camp set up. I have a 13'- 76 model Scamp and I prefer to cook outside outside too !
Love your whole rig set up.
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That right there is what its all about
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Thanks, sometimes I feel as if we've left nothing at home. We've had this Scamp, an 00, for about ten years and had a 01 16' before that. Congrats on that 76, with reasonable care, these molded fiberglass campers willl last forever and we'd likely still be in our first one if a hurricane hadn't dropped several oaks on it.
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In my experience around the country, always better to refill than exchange, as far as getting your money's worth.
Just be sure to regularly check the condition of your tanks. Was topping off two of my 20#-ers in southern NM last year at a propane dealer and saw an article on the wall about a 40# tank being refilled that shot all the way across a street and through a display window. Some dealers, in states like Massachusetts, won't refill tanks if they look the least bit rusty.
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What bad luck to lose anything to nature. I'm lucky to have never lost anything due to weather and only one auto in my life to an accident (knock on wood). My scamp was given to me 22 years ago for payment on a debt. It has sat for all this time unused. I'm bringing her back now.
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I know I will need to have my propane dealer ck mine out. They haven't been refilled in many years but the tanks look to be in good shape.
That's a scary story you tell about identified flying objects.
