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Connie
Senior Member
Username: Connie
Post Number: 1664
Registered: 10-2000
Posted From: 98.230.141.204
| | Posted on Monday, January 16, 2012 - 06:45 pm: | 
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Kevin Kowalczyk
Senior Member
Username: Itsfunbrewingbeer
Post Number: 1050
Registered: 10-2007
Posted From: 173.51.245.89
| | Posted on Monday, January 16, 2012 - 08:14 pm: |
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Why so many? |
Connie
Senior Member
Username: Connie
Post Number: 1665
Registered: 10-2000
Posted From: 98.230.141.204
| | Posted on Monday, January 16, 2012 - 08:29 pm: |
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Garage sales...and other club members will buy the empties for spares/trade in. New propane tanks are around $29 each~ |
Bill Pierce
Moderator
Username: Billpierce
Post Number: 13523
Registered: 01-2002
Posted From: 24.150.9.127
| | Posted on Monday, January 16, 2012 - 08:47 pm: |
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Household movers won't handle gas cylinders because they lack the proper permits (though there is nothing to prevent an individual from transporting one in a private vehicle, at least in all but a few heavily restricted areas). Therefore propane cylinders are rather commonly available at moving sales. |
Connie
Senior Member
Username: Connie
Post Number: 1666
Registered: 10-2000
Posted From: 98.230.141.204
| | Posted on Monday, January 16, 2012 - 09:28 pm: |
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Bill, you would be surprised how many people don't know that...some wind up in the trash or on the curb  |
Paul Hayslett
Senior Member
Username: Paulhayslett
Post Number: 2992
Registered: 02-2002
Posted From: 24.2.134.193
| | Posted on Monday, January 16, 2012 - 09:41 pm: |
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I'm surprised you can get away with refilling the ones showing rust. Around here, refillers won't touch tanks with any rust at all on the body. |
Bill Pierce
Moderator
Username: Billpierce
Post Number: 13524
Registered: 01-2002
Posted From: 24.150.9.127
| | Posted on Monday, January 16, 2012 - 09:47 pm: |
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It's not difficult to clean up surface rust with a wire brush and a can of white rust-inhibiting spray paint. |
Bill Pierce
Moderator
Username: Billpierce
Post Number: 13525
Registered: 01-2002
Posted From: 24.150.9.127
| | Posted on Monday, January 16, 2012 - 09:49 pm: |
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Connie, isn't one of those in the photo a 40 lb. cylinder? |
Connie
Senior Member
Username: Connie
Post Number: 1667
Registered: 10-2000
Posted From: 98.230.141.204
| | Posted on Monday, January 16, 2012 - 09:54 pm: |
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Yep, it is. I Don't know what I'm going to do with it...but it's full 
I had another 40#er, but it was rusty and had the old type valve, so I put it in the trash when empty. |
Connie
Senior Member
Username: Connie
Post Number: 1668
Registered: 10-2000
Posted From: 98.230.141.204
| | Posted on Monday, January 16, 2012 - 09:59 pm: |
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Paul, I've never had any problem getting a tank filled or traded. Some rust is acceptable around here and like Bill said, they can be wire brushed and painted. I always thought it would be better for them to paint than me  |
brewer of beer
Member
Username: Brewbeer22
Post Number: 111
Registered: 10-2005
Posted From: 98.217.101.110
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 17, 2012 - 03:57 am: |
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Around here, they have a 10 year life after which they won't fill them anymore (they are stamped with a manufacture date usually on the handle). To get ride of an empty, expired tank (legally) you have to pay $5 to a recycler. |
Kevin Kowalczyk
Senior Member
Username: Itsfunbrewingbeer
Post Number: 1051
Registered: 10-2007
Posted From: 173.51.245.89
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 17, 2012 - 04:43 am: |
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I guess my point is, if they're commonly available, why hoard them? The time spent collecting them plus the clutter wouldn't be worth it to me. To each their own, I guess. |
Chris Storey
Member
Username: Stuts
Post Number: 119
Registered: 07-2004
Posted From: 76.75.115.75
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 17, 2012 - 11:40 am: |
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Around here you can just drop off out of date tanks to a car wreckers for free. |
Paul Hayslett
Senior Member
Username: Paulhayslett
Post Number: 2994
Registered: 02-2002
Posted From: 24.2.134.193
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 17, 2012 - 01:29 pm: |
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Our refillers also won't accept tanks that "look like they've been repainted", as one refiller put it.
When a tank shows a little rust, I trade it in at the supermarket. The clerks there will take anything that is vaguely the right shape. It costs me a few dollars due to the low fill level the trade-in company uses, but much less than a brand new tank. |
Vance Barnes
Senior Member
Username: Vancebarnes
Post Number: 4260
Registered: 03-2003
Posted From: 76.122.104.54
| | Posted on Thursday, January 19, 2012 - 12:39 am: |
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Around here it's the trade in re-fillers that re-paint the tanks. I do a better job at it than they do though. |
Josh Vogel
Junior Member
Username: Loopie_beer
Post Number: 87
Registered: 02-2011
Posted From: 65.60.214.75
| | Posted on Friday, January 20, 2012 - 01:02 am: |
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I REALLY love my 100# tank. With that and a regular 25#, I never run out. Best part, got it free and full of gas... |
brewer of beer
Member
Username: Brewbeer22
Post Number: 112
Registered: 10-2005
Posted From: 98.217.101.110
| | Posted on Friday, January 20, 2012 - 02:33 am: |
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A 100 pound tank would last me about a year. Hmm... |
Bill Pierce
Moderator
Username: Billpierce
Post Number: 13541
Registered: 01-2002
Posted From: 24.150.9.127
| | Posted on Friday, January 20, 2012 - 03:19 am: |
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100 lb. cylinders don't freeze up during a full boil in cold weather. The one drawback is that they must be transported in an upright position. |
Kevin Kowalczyk
Senior Member
Username: Itsfunbrewingbeer
Post Number: 1052
Registered: 10-2007
Posted From: 64.197.229.27
| | Posted on Friday, January 20, 2012 - 03:23 am: |
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I love my nat gas...
http://noblesquarebrewing.blogspot.com/2010/11/now-were-cooking-with-gas.html |
Jason Wright
New Member
Username: Jmwrightmegg
Post Number: 3
Registered: 12-2006
Posted From: 76.233.153.50
| | Posted on Friday, January 20, 2012 - 04:15 am: |
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If you live in propane country, just have your propane company come out and install a normal household sized tank near your brew area. They should do it free of charge, just the money required to cover the propane in the new tank. If they don't put a regulator on the tank, the propane will come out at high pressure just like those little propane bottles in the photo above, and you can just attach your burner to it via a hose. That's what I did. Then, when the company comes out to fill up your household tank, they will fill up your brew tank automatically. You will never have to worry about running out. |
Paul Hayslett
Senior Member
Username: Paulhayslett
Post Number: 2997
Registered: 02-2002
Posted From: 24.2.134.193
| | Posted on Friday, January 20, 2012 - 11:01 am: |
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Kevin, we have city gas here too. Pretty much everything in the house runs on it: heat, hot water, dryer, stove, fireplaces. Unfortunately, running a gas line out to the detached garage would mean tearing up the patio. I can't justify that for brewing alone. But someday we'll have to replace the patio bricks anyway. And when we do, I'm going to have hard-piped gas to my grill and brewing area. No more tanks! |
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