tank would kinda defeat your space savings you are trying to achieve.Yeah defeats the purpose of both space and weight savings. He will find the info that he has written down with all the details and fax it to me later on today. upright tank with a vapor service valve on top and also a bottom valve to draw the liquid. What he was told, was that the smallest tank he could use is a 120 gal. He said it is doable, he just hasn't done it yet. He has a propane powered work truck and is trying to adapt it to do the same as you are wanting to do. I talked to my buddy Daniel this morning, he has not finished trying to make this work for himself yet. Unless I level the grill I can't get good flow from an OPV equipped tank. Learned that the hard way on the grill out back. The new tanks do have a pendulum in them that will shut the valve if they are tipped. I must have 3 of the old tanks kicking around. He used to be good with commercial guys getting the old tanks filled, but not any more. The guy near me that used to do the standard tanks got whacked with a fine and now won't any longer. I'm glad you can still get the old non-OPV valves filled. Some place like that might be able to set you up. I deal with a hydro shop and have had them do any and all valve work on tanks. Don't know, the only tank like that I deal with is a liquid tank for my buddies fork lift. If so, You should be able to just get that plug pulled and install a 2nd valve in that location. I'm thinking the plug I have circled may be the outlet for gas as opposed to the liquid one. If I remember there was 2 separate outlets, one for liquid, one for gas. Mark, it's been a while since I worked with one of those tow motor tanks. Why, would OSHA be concerned about this? Taking this one step further, Even MSHA, much more pricky than OSHA, I have plenty of experience, and lots of good stories, Why would Msha be concerned? Why, in my wildest dreams, DOT would even be concerned about this, I don't know. I am simply looking for a way to take a separate tap off, so as to only withdraw vapor propane, for a torch. Goes thru it's own regulator, the perfect correct pressure, of butane, is supplied to the engine. Engine has it's own vaporizer, nothing freezes up. The difference here, is, you pump liquid butane in under the yellow cap, and you withdraw, liquid butane, from the little valve wheel, pictured. I will let everybody here know, once I know for sure. I suspect, a bbq tank upside down, will work just fine. I will have to try a bbq tank, one of these days, upside down, to see if it can be a valid emergency supply. Yes, I have tried running my new Lincoln 250, off vapor, just craps out. Understood?Īny forklift, or internal cumbustion engine, tank you get, will have a liquid feed. IS it possible, to remove that fitting, plumb in a "tee", reinstall the fill fitting on top, and thus be able to insert a propane regulator off the tee, underneath the fill port, so as to run a propane torch, off the same tank we are sucking liquid from, only from a different place? Note, a propane torch would like to have vapor, not liquid.Īny bbq butane tank you get, will be straight vapor. I assume, this just dumps into the top of the tank, no dip tube involved. QUESTION: under the yellow cap, is the fill port. I have already discovered, the engine don't run worth a dam, just off vapor. No problem, that part I understand, don't want to mess with it. This goes to a vaporizer, on the engine, and then to a regulator, and finally to the carburator. goes down to the bottom of the tank, feeds liquid butane. The little handwheel, in both cases, controls a "dip tube". Feed the engine drive off the liquid feed, feed the torch off a vapor feed.įact. IF, I can possibly tap a vapor feed in, so as to not have to carry around an acetylene tank. Ideally, I would like to build the new skid, to hold two forklift-sized propane tanks, and one oxygen tank. For my own purposes, just bought a new propane-powered engine drive.
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