How To Fill A One Pound Propane Bottle - The Right Way and Save $$

to me this is a lot easier some people say it's wrong of course I guess I should have disclosed you want to be in a very open area not enclosed propane is very dangerous had to say that right [Music] hey what's up guys today I'm going to show you how to fill up these small one-pound or propane tanks it's really easy I'm really shocked that everybody doesn't know how to do this already I had somebody asked me the other day how do you do that I said I'd do a video for you there's a lot of videos out there there's a lot of misinformation there's a lot of ways that they're doing it right but it's harder I'm gonna show you how I do it I feel it's an easier way to do it now these propane tanks there's two different ones one comes with a metal band on the bottom one comes with a plastic all these I have here are plastic except for one and these weigh about one ounce more than the one with the plastic so I'm just gonna take this one out of my circulation so I don't get it confused and these ones with a plastic weigh about thirteen point two ounces on the scale so what I would want to do is with it full add 16 ounces of that so that's going to be what about twenty nine point four and when I fill it up as long as like about 28 to 29 I'm good so first of all you got to get you one of these this is an adapter and it goes right in the probe propane tank and I use actually a little allen key to purge mine and it just something that's right at the top of that hole I have one full here in there to me this is a lot easier some people say it's wrong a lot of people will tell you to take a hemostats why it's on the tanks and purge it with the hemostats by pulling this little Schrader valve the little valve out now you can do that and it is kind of simple but if you're gonna keep I have some of these tanks probably a year if I did it that way that notice that I used to do it that way the Schrader valve that little pin gets stuck a lot and it wears out and leaks so I don't want that so I started doing a different way and I usually purge it from the top here now let me show you how I do it I take take the adapter I just want to thread it right on here now these reverse thread so you want to thread it backwards obviously and I'll get mine good and tight because I'm doing about 10 tanks maybe maybe 13 so each time I tighten one down it's kind of pushing on it so I don't want this thing to loosen up on me so I'm gonna get this good tight and I'm gonna flip my propane bottle now pushes all the gas to the bottom you get my scale here started again a lot of times I don't use the scale for the sake of the video I do want to do it and do it right now these things come in handy as y'all know for your buddy heater trying to keep warm your portable grills and I use a lot for both so just screw that right on there and open the tank now you'll hear it if you did not hear that on the video it's filling right now I could hear it hissing in there now I'm gonna do that until I hear it stop hissing a lot of people say leave it about 15 20 minutes but I'll have a bottle done in about maybe two or three minutes where's my allen key so that thing stopped hissing I'm just gonna go ahead and shut it off and I'm gonna purge the air out of it and do it all over again and I'll do like cut about three times now I usually do about one two three four five six get some air out of it and I'll do it again again i'ma probably that one more time and I'll put it on the scale and weigh it let's purge it one more time how much as I usually do by my feel you can see how close I get let me let that go I can hear a hissing just till I stop hearing a hissing again now these adapters they sell they say they have an automatic cutoff but they I've never seen one really worked that way so now the you guys that aren't doing this you're spending a lot of money I pay anywhere from $4 to $7 a tank now you can't get them at Walmart a pair for I think seven dollars but the way I'm doing it now I paid the fill this tank at tractor supplies usually the cheapest I found and I pay usually no more tractor supply to 50 gallons now I've had it as cheap as a dollar 85 again a tractor supply seems like the more I go east and east south the more expensive it gets out west propane seems to be cheaper now again I'm gonna do it about 28 to 29 and I have that exactly 29 and that was buy fuel and that's usually how I do it but if I'm gonna do a video I'm obviously gonna show you the right way I don't want y'all to make any mistakes and that was done and I'm just gonna repeat the process I'm gonna say my first year on the road I was buying these and throwing them away I bet I was going through in the wintertime because I use it all summer too for my little portable grill but in the wintertime I bet I'm going through one or two of these a night if I'm in a cold-weather and that's four to seven dollars a day and that's just not acceptable now I got about that about 29.9 that is over full my what point five ounces now to be safe I'll let a little bit out usually I really wouldn't do that but I would suggest you to because they say it's dangerous 29 for I'm right right out of one pound [Music] and I certainly don't want to bore y'all with doing every one of these bottles on video but it's taking me obviously about maybe two to three minutes to do one bottle it's quick it's the way I learned how to do it you don't have to put them in a freezer you don't have to the other way they people show you they take little hemostats and they pull that thing and again those things will wear out if you keep doing so I won't bore you watching me do everyone I'll get them done now get right back to you [Music] okay I'm doing my last one this should be about finished it might took me a whole 20 minutes to do what I got here two four six eight ten twelve bottles eleven bottles that was good 29.1 now at 250 a pound I probably saved about thirty five dollars and it took me 15 minutes to do it I'm gonna say 60 cents a bottle right around 60 65 cents it's costing me to fill them this way now this little valve here I don't know if I mentioned in the beginning you can get it I think I got this one a Harbor Freight for $12 you get on Amazon probably even cheaper I'm not sure but I'll put a link below so y'all can check it out yeah guys that's it was that easy I hope y'all like this video hope you all learned something even the ones that have been doing this I hope you learned something maybe a little different new a new way to do it because I have found this over the years to be the easiest way for me and thanks for watching guys y'all hit that thumbs up because that's how we roll [Music]

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Id: lb0dV-1397c

Length: 10min 53sec (653 seconds)

Published: Thu Dec 13 2018