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Yes you can and I explain all this in the video.You never get the throw away tank to fill properly.
You never get the throw away tank to fill properly. Played that game for years. Also illegal to refill flamable gas canisters and not have them properly marked. Ie map gas tanks shouldnt have propane in them. The valves like to leak after several refills both the over pressure valve and the main valve.
My uncle found these refillable tanks years ago. I have 4 in rotation for the past 5 odd years now.
https://flamekingproducts.com/produ...nable-1lb-refillable-propane-tank-lp-cylinder
There are a few other companies that sell similar products. Also there are better fill valves too, handy when you have multiple tanks to fill.
I refill the torch sized propane bottles all the time. I use them to power my case annealer when I anneal rifle cases prior to reloading. I use one of the 20 pound bottles from the RV. I invert it on the bench, screw in the adapter to the empty small bottle and then screw the empty to the 20 pounder and open the valve and it fills them right up but prior to filling, I put the empty ones in the shop freezer to cool them down. A cold bottle fills much easier and quicker.You never get the throw away tank to fill properly. Played that game for years. Also illegal to refill flamable gas canisters and not have them properly marked. Ie map gas tanks shouldnt have propane in them. The valves like to leak after several refills both the over pressure valve and the main valve.
My uncle found these refillable tanks years ago. I have 4 in rotation for the past 5 odd years now.
https://flamekingproducts.com/produ...nable-1lb-refillable-propane-tank-lp-cylinder
There are a few other companies that sell similar products. Also there are better fill valves too, handy when you have multiple tanks to fill.
YepOne, it's not free and two, the big bottle MUST be inverted to fill the smaller ones so the picture in the first post is wrong. You want liquid, not vapor to fill the smaller bottle with and the ONLY way to extract liquid is to INVERT the big bottle.
Far as I'm concerned (and remember I own and operate a welding and fab shop), it would be insane not to refill gas bottles (well, in the case of Acetylene bottles), the Acetylene bottles are actually filled with liquid acetylene and the liquid is absorbed in the media inside the bottle, hence it's called 'dissolved' and you NEVER use a dissolved acetylene bottle in any position but vertical as you only want to extract the gas, never the dissolved liquid. Liquid acetylene in a torch head would do very bad things very quickly.
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