Posted by CBBC on January 15, 2018 at 20:19:17 from (184.66.87.175):
In Reply to: bad propane? posted by fixerupper on January 15, 2018 at 17:51:39:
In your situation I would say the tank wasn't purged.
Now on the topic of bad propane... three years ago there was a bad batch of propane that came through the metro Vancouver area in BC. We have 4 propane forklifts and about 12 bottles, four on machines and the remaining either full or empty in the rack.
We had a company come weekly and fill the empties on site. Works great, were never out completely. One week there were 7 filled and as we started working into them the forklifts started to run rough. The only reason we figured it was the propane was the one forklift that was hardly in use and didn't get a bottle changed and it ran fine... indoor use hard tire forklift. We started swapping tanks and had a few empties filled at a service station and they ran a bit better. Then the guy showed up and filled everything again with more contaminated propane and we had a mess.
We had to clean out the regulators and replace some gaskets and other stuff... there was tar like stuff all over the inside.
Ultimately we had them clean and purge the tanks again and they gave us a couple rounds of free fuel. It didn't cause us too much grief because we always seemed to have one running good enough. Some of the big lumber yards and other industrial places were hit hard and shut down without their forklifts.
This wasn't isolated to our supplier as I knew of another comany hit with it at the same time and they had another company deliver their propane... it must have come from the refinery or distribution company not filtering he impurities out. Anyone else ever see this?
Anyway since then I just take the bottles 6 at a time to a fuel station when I go pick up parts every week. It's actually cheaper as long as I don't count my time.
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