[at-l] Does this seem to be on the level?

[bcalkins@disaster-relief.net (Bruce Calkins)]

Please Be Advised;

Federal law prohibits transportation of refilled disposable propane
containers. Something about a $25,000 fine. I haven,t found out the
particulars as to what constitutes "transportation" (commercial vehicles
vs. private car etc.) I stopped using mine because the containers started
bulging! The formula of the gas is different for the bulk tanks than the
disposable canisters, giving a higher pressure!

Black Wolfe


At 04:06 PM 3/15/01 -0500, you wrote:
>Hub and I like to eat out a lot.  For use that means taking 
>supper to a park and cooking with a gas stove.  Not a backpacker
>type, one of those big things that sit on a one pound green coleman tank.
>I also use that for angeling and let the hikers use it to save their fuel as 
>well.
>
>Ebay often has this gizmo....
>http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1121500191&r=0&t=0&sh
>owTutorial=0&ed=984645104&indexURL=0&rd=1
>
>which says it will let me refill those one pounders......cool.  I wondered, 
>without
>any kind of a gauge, how would one know when the green can was full.  I 
>figured I
>could weigh it empty and again when filled but that would be a pain.  I wrote
>to the guy who sells them and he replied:
>"all that is going to happen is that the two tanks will equalize pressure 
>and stop filling 
>the small cylinder will fill 85% to 90% before this happened 
>there is no chance of over filling and that is why this is so safe. 
>Sincerely "
>
>Does that ring true?  Would the level of gas in the big tank effect this?  
>It'd be pretty cool if
>it worked but I'm not sure.....
>
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