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RE: Disposal of old propane cannisters? - kimo wires - 03-30-2014
Amerigas cylinder exchange at Home Depot. They will take your old cylinder and give you a new one regardless of the condition. You just pay for the gas.
RE: Disposal of old propane cannisters? - OpenD - 03-30-2014
Correcting some of the misinformation posted in this thread...
The standard steel propane bottle used in BBQs an the like is commonly referred to as a 5 gallon container. Its total water* capacity is stamped into the steel collar and typically is about 5.7 gallons.
They are also referred to as "20 pound" cans, but some brands of refills only contain as little as 15 pounds of propane, so buyer beware. There should be a DOT notice somewhere on the rack that says what the contents are, but they often tuck it away in an inconspicuous corner. When you get your own bottle filled at a propane dealer, rather than doing a swap at a hardware store, the fill is metered and you pay for what you get.
* Since so many propane explosions (est. 600/yr) were traced to over-pressurized tanks, as of 2002 all propane tanks must be equipped with an Overfill Protection Device (OPD) using a float valve that turns off the fill valve at about 80% capacity. Valves with the OPD device installed have triangle shaped handles. Tanks using valves with round or square handle cannot be refilled any longer.
By federal law propane container can only be used for 12 years after the date of manufacture unless they are retested for pressure, in which case they can be requalified for another 5. The date(s) are stamped into the steel collar. For a 100# portable bottle, like my neighbor uses to fire his pottery kiln, or the maybe 40-60# bottles that have many industrial uses such as powering fork lifts, retesting may be worth it to extend their use, but it's probably not practical for a 20#, which can simply be swapped for a refill at many places.
Light visible rust is not a safety issue, but heavy rust is. And dents are dangerous. Bottles that need to be retired are normally accepted for recycling by propane dealers. Typically they will remove any gas still in the bottle, remove the valve for recycling the brass, render the bottle unusable by punching a hole in the side, then sending on to a metal recycler.
RE: Disposal of old propane cannisters? - Kelena - 03-30-2014
Wow, OpenD -- you are an encyclopedia of propane cannister disposal. Do you play in OpenD? -- because that is a very uncommon tuning. Blues, I guess. Anyway, mine have the triangular handles, and so have the OPD device, and are not dented but are lightly rusted. There is propane in each of them. I don't want anymore propane because I no longer have a BBQ. I think that Steve's in Pahoa would be a good bet so I COULD take those by tomorrow.
And yet, I kind of like my "Can Tiki" idea so still toying with an ocean-going adventure involving a propane cannister. I am not sure I could throw the cannister past the keiki honu opihi pickers but if I could, my concern is that I would hit a gay baby whale and then I would really be in trouble. Merely mentioning those sends some into a frenzy. Hitting one inadvertently with a cannister would not be well received.
I like the idea of painting them like whales, but I am thinking of painting them like very round, very large HUMAN BABIES. Then I will take them to Kehena and birth them. I've kinda made up my mind about it, so I don't want any "please don't do it" stuff about it. It's almost MY birthday and I will birth a propane cannister if I want to. Where are the libertarians when you need them? They head for the hills the MOMENT you say you are going to groan, moan and give birth to a propane cannister in the water at Kehena.
RE: Disposal of old propane cannisters? - Wao nahele kane - 03-30-2014
Typically they are randomly dumped along side the road... but wait till you have a broken down car to put them in before leaving the whole mess along side the road. Thank-you.
RE: Disposal of old propane cannisters? - HereOnThePrimalEdge - 03-30-2014
GayBabyWha-all to you
GayBabyWha-all to you
GayBabyWha-all Dear Kelena...
GayBabyWha-all to you
(and mahi-mahi more)
RE: Disposal of old propane cannisters? - rocketman - 03-30-2014
Kelena
If you are still trying to get rid of them I will pick them up and use them for spares for my BBQ, please let me know.
BTW, Happy Birthday!!
Ed
RE: Disposal of old propane cannisters? - Wao nahele kane - 03-30-2014
rocketman - just hang out and watch the birthing. After Kelena gets back to shore and the cans set adrift, fire a round through the cans and after the brilliant flash and loud BOOM run down and scoop up all the floating fish for your BBQ.
ETA:
So says me, a "Libertarian".
RE: Disposal of old propane cannisters? - rocketman - 03-30-2014
That works too!!
RE: Disposal of old propane cannisters? - Kelena - 03-30-2014
I'm really touched by all the singing and carrying on and well wishes. And mahi more. Too funny. It is not QUITE my birthday yet (say a week), but we are in Aries right now and it is a very special time. All the more important to jettison old cannisters so that we can enter old age with Grace. Or Will. Or whoever I can talk into entering old age with me (now THERE'S an invitation! --please join me in my decrepitude, won't you?). I think I am going to try Steve's in Pahoa tomorrow (for the cannisters), but y'all are welcome to come by anyway, Rocketman or whoever wants to sing to me to celebrate my birthing at Kehena underwater attended by dolphins so long ago. Okay, I was actually born in a Catholic hospital in California and was attended by nurses in habits. Or so I am told. I don't know why the nuns didn't want to escort my mom into the ocean at Long Beach for the event. Those were very backward and primitive times. Ether, operating tables, doctors. Dolphinless. Go figure. Now I have dolphins though. And two tanks too many. Steve's, manana. Pau.
RE: Disposal of old propane cannisters? - OpenD - 03-31-2014
quote:
Originally posted by Kelena
Do you play in OpenD? -- because that is a very uncommon tuning. Blues, I guess.
Not the most common, not the most uncommon. Used for both bottleneck blues and slack key. Take the third string of this D A D G B D tuning down half a step to D A D F# B D and you get the D Wahine tuning Cyril Pahinui favors. It's all good.
Don't litter. Karma is more than just a good idea, it's the law!
