This one was kinda dangerous in an exploding propane kinda way.
I don't have a good picture here, but the propane hoses that came with the
trailer were kinda strange. The blue-green, what is that color?, teal? knobs
that you tighten to attach the hoses to the valves on the tanks have to swivel.
That's a given. But that is about as much as is needed. In addition to that
swivel joint there was a second joint on that end of the hose. Why? On the
other end the nipple that attached to the regulator swiveled, and then there
was another hex shaped section and a second swivel joint. That's a lot of
joints...to leak.
The first camping trip everything was fine. The second trip I opened the tank
valve, went in and fired up the refrigerator, and then was behind the trailer
and smelled gas. Sure enough more than one of those joints were hissing away.
They weren't doing that when I started things up. Had I zipped up the nylon
cover for the tanks after opening the tank valve I would have had a balloon
full of propane on the front of the trailer.
I tried to patch things up a bit with Super Glue and electrical tape. It's
all I had with me. I didn't trust it, but tested it later and it would have
worked had I needed it. During the trip I just turned everything off and left
everything in the ice chest.
I replaced the hoses with Mr. Heater hoses I bought at Camping World that
have only one swivel joint right were you would expect it to be. By the big
knob. You just have to hook up the end to the regulator first, since the hose
will spin when you tighten it. I used a little Rector Seal on those threads.
When I was hooking things up I noticed that the tank selector lever doesn't
really seem to do much. With only one hose hooked up to the regulator the
gas would come out of the other hole no matter where the lever was. Huh. Anyway,
it's all better now.
2018-03-03