snipepod
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Just picked up a Four-Wheel-Camper from that will fit my 1976 K5 Blazer. This is a total restoration project, something that I am well suited to. Helps to own your own CNC machine shop, and TIG welder. Anyways, am planing to build a basic shell with a small European HOB (sink/2 burner) in the driver side rear corner. Currently the 4WC has the propane compartment located there, with access door to the outside. Takes up way to much room. Have been looking at switching to two smaller tanks, like the Worthingtons, but they still take up considerable space.
Has anyone though of using the 1lb disposable tanks and designing a manifold that links several of the tanks together for capacity? I have been refilling these 1lb tanks for years from my 20lb BBQ tank with excellent results. For example, I envision a manifold that combines 5 of these small tanks into two rows, one row with 3 tanks, the other with two, where the two rows of tanks are almost tangentially touching each other. This would give me a very compact compartment.
The manifold would have individual tank valves so that I could swap tanks without interruption.
Is there something about the 1lb throw away tanks that I am overlooking that would prevent such a solution?
Most RVs access the propane compartment from outside, what are the reasons for this arrangement? Safety? convenience?
Has anyone though of using the 1lb disposable tanks and designing a manifold that links several of the tanks together for capacity? I have been refilling these 1lb tanks for years from my 20lb BBQ tank with excellent results. For example, I envision a manifold that combines 5 of these small tanks into two rows, one row with 3 tanks, the other with two, where the two rows of tanks are almost tangentially touching each other. This would give me a very compact compartment.
The manifold would have individual tank valves so that I could swap tanks without interruption.
Is there something about the 1lb throw away tanks that I am overlooking that would prevent such a solution?
Most RVs access the propane compartment from outside, what are the reasons for this arrangement? Safety? convenience?