LP lines

[ronald b. kazi]

I am about to install LP to my propane fridge. Is the install simply
using 3/8 lines and fittings with flare connections? Do I put a shutoff
next to the fridge? I assume I should put the line through a grommet
where it passes thought the cabinet and leave a loop to allow for
expansion and contraction.

All advice will be taken as suggestions and suggester assumes no
responsibility for my actions. I can make my own safety decisions. In a
past life at age 16, I transported 12 - 20lb tanks each week 20 miles
each way to be filled.....IN A PINTO! What was I thinking? As I recall
I was paid $2.25 an hour at the time, plus tips.

Ron and Julie
73 Painted Desert

 

[ronald b. kazi]

Now, that blasting sounds like fun! Sometime (after a few cold ones) I will tell
of my driving a rental Taurus wagon down an intermediate slope in Austria(True
story).\

Ron and Julie

>
> > In a
> > past life at age 16, I transported 12 - 20lb tanks each week 20 miles
> > each way to be filled.....IN A PINTO! What was I thinking?
>
> Ron,
> You stirred some memories with that one. Way back in '69, I worked one
> fall and winter at a ski area in New Hampshire. The fall was fun. Blowing
> post holes in frozen ground with 1/2-sticks of dynamite was, dare I say, a
> blast. I did cringe a little the first time I broke a stick in half.
> (BTW, we set off the charges with standard electric blasting caps and a
> 6-volt vehicle battery. I take seriously the admonition to turn off
> transmitters in blasting zones!)
> Shortly after the first snowfall (but before the slopes were open) I was
> dispatched to haul a load of full-size propane tanks (about 8) to the summit
> restaurant. Loading them into the back of an old Bombardier muskegmobile, I
> headed straight up the slope. Right after the steepest point of "True Grit",
> I heard a slight noise above the roar of the Chrysler 6-cylinder. Looking
> behind me, I watched in horror as the cylinders one by one slid out the back
> and headed down the slope!
> Luckily for me, the 6" or so of snow provided enough resistance that the
> tanks did NOT roll down the mountain. The physics dictated that the path of
> least resistance was to slide lengthwise, and after a few hundred feet of
> sliding, they came to rest, in 8 different locations. I considered the
> struggle of hefting and reloading the cylinders on a very steep slope as just
> the price of the day's lesson: ALWAYS secure your load. ;-)
>
>
> Rick Staples
> '75 Eleganza
> Louisville, CO
>