Steps for properly and safely disconnecting a gas bottle

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Re: Steps for properly and safely disconnecting a gas bottle

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DD, call us at least a week before you next need to refuel your moto. Step by Step, day by day, I believe we may be able to advise you of a safe and practice way to achieve this by yourself. However, I think we shall need the weeks notice.
Best of luck with the antique, leaking gas bottle. Hope you survive.

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Back in the 70s there was town gas around that smelled rough and sulphurous. That was lucky because it was plumbed in from the street main and it wasn't that unusual for it to leak. I was fixing a creaky floorboard one time and put a nail straight through the copper pipe. It was a pretty god seal till it got walked on a bit..... Anyway I don't think the LPG or Propane or whatever it is they use here has much of a smell unless you have a leak or something. Just turn the tap off and screw off the regulator and you're good to go.
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John Bingham wrote: ↑Mon Sep 03, 2018 9:21 pm Back in the 70s there was town gas around that smelled rough and sulphurous. That was lucky because it was plumbed in from the street main and it wasn't that unusual for it to leak. I was fixing a creaky floorboard one time and put a nail straight through the copper pipe. It was a pretty god seal till it got walked on a bit..... Anyway I don't think the LPG or Propane or whatever it is they use here has much of a smell unless you have a leak or something. Just turn the tap off and screw off the regulator and you're good to go.
Don't know if it happens here, but I think LPG for domestic use has a unique signature smell (ethyl mercaptan) added to it so we can tell when there's a leak.
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Username Taken wrote: ↑Mon Sep 03, 2018 5:52 pm If it came with the apartment, tell the landlord to remove it.
This.

I am sure a gas company nearby may even give you/the landlord a bit of money for the tank
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Whats wrong with canaries for testing for leaking gas? It worked in Victorian days.
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cautious colin wrote: ↑Mon Sep 03, 2018 9:44 pm
Username Taken wrote: ↑Mon Sep 03, 2018 5:52 pm If it came with the apartment, tell the landlord to remove it.
This.

I am sure a gas company nearby may even give you/the landlord a bit of money for the tank
Hell yes, those things are worth money, the landlord will want his tank or the deposit. Don't chuck it out.
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The best way to check for small leaks is to use a cigarette lighter. The flame will burn pale yellow, not orange in the presence of propane.
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or incinerate the inspector and destroy the building
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TOG wrote: ↑Tue Sep 04, 2018 1:45 am Whats wrong with canaries for testing for leaking gas? It worked in Victorian days.
I think that was testing for methane, mostly in coal mines

This is propane, different stuff
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