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Old 12-11-2019, 8:35pm   #11
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Originally Posted by 6spdC6 View Post
This to the best of my knowledge only occurred with the newer revised valves of a few years past. I installed heating systems and I also changed out literately hundreds of propane tanks of all sizes with the old fashioned valves and never had a problem. In the old days most construction sites used many salamanders ( large portable heaters) with their own individual bottles for temporary heat!
It's the volume of propane gas that causes the freezing of the manifold unless fed from multiple tanks.

Below is a picture of me holding one of the piston rings for the Cooper pumping engine. It has a 21-1/2" bore and 36" stroke.
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