Lee: Maybe five feet with the collar yes. I guess the problem for some folks is that at a typical small filling station, the fill is calculated by weight, whereas in order to top off a tank you'd have to calculate the volume of flow. I believe a gallon of propane is a little over 7 lbs, and the folks I used to buy the stuff in bulk from I believe could only get down to a gallon in their readouts, so there'd be a lot of rounding on a smaller tank filled this way.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lee A. Stone Sent: Friday, January 15, 2010 15:15 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Propane Tank Sizes Bill, maybe I have the wrong size but is not a 100 pound tank about maybe 5 foot tall. they used to come tomy Moms house quite often and then they talked her into two of those tanks and in later years she had one of those big fat tanks. I remember because they used to have to slide down two tterraces to get to the tank location. L On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 01:36:59PM -0600, wstep...@everestkc. <mailto:wstephan%40everestkc.net> net wrote: > Lee, I've never heard of anybody doing this, but that's not saying it couldn't be done. Generally, these small tanks like a 100 pounder are assumed to be empty and often times just swopped out. > > Bill Stephan > Kansas Citty MO > Email: wstep...@everestkc. <mailto:wstephan%40everestkc.net> net > Phone: (816)803-2469 > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Lee A. Stone" <se...@mailsent. <mailto:sedac%40mailsent.net> net> > Date: Friday, January 15, 2010 12:58 pm > Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Propane Tank Sizes > > > > is it not possibloe for the polace you buy the 100 pound tank to > > have > > them come fill it and do so again when you call ? > > > > On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 > > at 01:45:20PM -0500, Edward Przybylek > > wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > > > > > I use a propane heater witha 20 LB tank in my garage to make it > > through the > > > winter months. Having to refill the tanks can be a problem when > > a ride is > > > not readily available. I spoke to the gentleman at the U-Haul > > and he said > > > he could order a 40 LB tank for me. A 40 LB tank really > > wouldn't help much > > > because I usually keep two 20 LB tanks in the garage. I asked > > about the > > > next larger size and he said he could order a 100 LB tank. Not > > a bad idea > > > but getting a 100 LB tank refilled could be a problem. Does > > anyone know if > > > there are any other size tanks between 40 LB and 100 LB? Thanks. > > > > > > > > > > > > Take care, > > > > > > Ed Przybylek > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > > -- > > There's no use in having a dog and doing your own barking. > > . > > -- There's no use in having a dog and doing your own barking. . [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
