Refillable gas tank problem

[Sharon the Cat]

I'm hoping that there is some obvious human error at play here. It's too late to phone LPGshop who we got the tank from, until Monday now.
Phill just took our brand new Gas Bank refillable to our local garage for it's first fill.

He said that lpg was spraying out of the filling nozzle as if it wasn't properly connected. People with cars were having no problems. He used the bayonet fitting supplied, please see photos. Cost him £2+ in 3 litres of wasted lpg.

What went wrong?

 

[mistericeman]

Daft question BUT is one fitting a fill and the other an outlet ...

IE is the bayonet fitting screwed in the wrong side of the bottle ?

We have gaslow bottles fitted permanently so different set up to you for me to be sure .

 

[Nabsim]

Those bottles are tested with air and it is supposed to be let out before being filled with gas.

 

[Sharon the Cat]

Daft question BUT is one fitting a fill and the other an outlet ...

IE is the bayonet fitting screwed in the wrong side of the bottle ?

We have gaslow bottles fitted permanently so different set up to you for me to be sure .

One thread one way and one the other, so bayonet will only fit on one.
No instructions whatsoever with bottle!

 

[Sharon the Cat]

Those bottles are tested with air and it is supposed to be let out before being filled with gas.

Are you saying we should have opened the tap and closed it again before trying to fill?
As I said above, there were no instructions.

 

[Nabsim]

Are you saying we should have opened the tap and closed it again before trying to fill?
As I said above, there were no instructions.

It looks in the second picture that the o-ring may not be sealing properly, I know Charlie (Autogas 2000) has had a few issues with cheap adapters some people have come into him with. If it isn’t sealing that could be where it’s leaking from.

If you can’t get gas to go into the cylinder it could well be full of air as they do ship filled with air which should be released by the retailer before sale, this is done by opening the valve.

 

[Sharon the Cat]

It looks in the second picture that the o-ring may not be sealing properly, I know Charlie (Autogas 2000) has had a few issues with cheap adapters some people have come into him with. If it isn’t sealing that could be where it’s leaking from.

If you can’t get gas to go into the cylinder it could well be full of air as they do ship filled with air which should be released by the retailer before sale, this is done by opening the valve.

Thank you so much for your help.
We've just stood outside for a good 2 minutes listening to all the air hissing out of the tank.
Feel like a right couple of Rodney's now.

 

[Nabsim]

Thank you so much for your help.
We've just stood outside for a good 2 minutes listening to all the air hissing out of the tank.
Feel like a right couple of Rodney's now.

It should have been done for you before you got it, no way you would know. I only know because Charlie had told me about it before

 

[izwozral]

We bought a new cylinder here in NZ as a secondary back up, the company, Rocgas, told us to tell the Fill station the cylinder is new and it would need purging. I assume it was for the reason Nabsim states?

 

[Penny13]

It should have been done for you before you got it, no way you would know. I only know because Charlie had told me about it before

Good old Charlie

 

[Sharon the Cat]

Message from Phill this morning, tank now filled. Best news - £13.44 to fill an 11kg composite cylinder.

 

[Greengrass]

Message from Phill this morning, tank now filled. Best news - £13.44 to fill an 11kg composite cylinder.

That's cheap where was this ??

 

[yeoblade]

That's cheap where was this ??

Remember it's 50% air

 

[Sharon the Cat]

That's cheap where was this ??

Locks Garage on the A465, 4 Miles South of Hereford

 

[Greengrass]

Locks Garage on the A465, 4 Miles South of Hereford

Thank you I know Lock's that where I fill up some time's got a nice shop there to

 

[campervanannie]

Locks Garage on the A465, 4 Miles South of Hereford

Always cheaper at that garage even the ready filled are cheaper than most outlets

 

[campervanannie]

Thank you I know Lock's that where I fill up some time's got a nice shop there to

The extra large sausage rolls are fabulous dunked in soup.

 

[Wooie1958]

The extra large sausage rolls are fabulous dunked in soup.

You like to get your gnashers round an extra large one then

 

[Pudsey Bear]

You can always tell a Yorkshire lass, but you can't tell em much.

 

[Wooie1958]

You can always tell a Yorkshire lass, but you can't tell em much.

The wife`s favourite bag if she nips to the shops.