I was going to grill some ribs tonight, turned on the grill to heat it up and when I went back outside it was off, no problem the tank was getting low and it burned it’s last propane while heating up. Hooked up new tank I had filled a month or so ago which is the same tank that was on the grill before the one that just emptied. New tank is full, hooked up correctly, and no gas. Anyone have any clue, or just likely screwed with a suddenly instant bad valve, don’t know how that can happen, tank is only 3 years old btw.
Common problem bad regulator: Not this one, it is the tank. I regularly fill my old 1lb bottles with an adapter, no regulator, hooked it up, turned upside down, and no gas comes out when I crack the valve open. These adapters don’t care if you have nothing hooked up, slowly open valve and you can spray liquid propene but nothing comes out. Hooked up tank that just emptied to the adapter, and of course no pressurized propane came out, but you could smell the propan. The refill adapter is fool proof.
Common problem overfill/OPD shut off. OPD valve works as a float, if it was that, turning upside down makes the float go the other way and opens valve, checked that with my 1lb refill adapter and tank upside down, no joy.
This tank does not have a screw on side of valve to release/bleed gas, actually neither of my modern tanks do, So any suggestions having to do with that are right out.
Common problem bad regulator: Not this one, it is the tank. I regularly fill my old 1lb bottles with an adapter, no regulator, hooked it up, turned upside down, and no gas comes out when I crack the valve open. These adapters don’t care if you have nothing hooked up, slowly open valve and you can spray liquid propene but nothing comes out. Hooked up tank that just emptied to the adapter, and of course no pressurized propane came out, but you could smell the propan. The refill adapter is fool proof.
Common problem overfill/OPD shut off. OPD valve works as a float, if it was that, turning upside down makes the float go the other way and opens valve, checked that with my 1lb refill adapter and tank upside down, no joy.
This tank does not have a screw on side of valve to release/bleed gas, actually neither of my modern tanks do, So any suggestions having to do with that are right out.
