For instance, one called an excess flow valve. run your propane
while you are traveling. confusion obviously with this adapter. he couldn't tell me why so
therefore i couldn't believe him. is to let you know if you run across this.
it does not say anywhere one quarter inch. you do not want them 90 degree or below.
two different threads we don't need to go over that again but anyway. she got mad!
i love the sunsets here. beautiful.
well good morning visionaries. i think it's been a... little over a year, year and a half ago, we did
a video about the GasStop device. um since that time we've noticed a lot of comments about the
GasStop device and some people thinking that you don't need a GasStop device because your propane
tank and your lines already have a protection on them, and they do have a protection on them... there's
a valve for instance, one called an excess flow valve, but the one thing you've got to keep in mind
those valves, that protection, it does not shut your propane off 100 percent. i don't know about you
but if i have a leak inside my rv especially if i've been gone for a while and it's been leaking
in there or if we're sleeping it's leaking in there overnight in such a small space especially i
don't want any percentage of propane leaking into where i'm sleeping or i come home and i flip on
a light switch like an excess flow valve i think it stops it about i think it's around 90 percent
you can check me on that so that would leave what 10 flowing into your rv if there's a leak
inside your rv the gas stop device on the other hand it does shut your propane off 100 percent
if you have a leak it detects that has a little steel ball inside the valve that drops and shuts
it off 100 percent it's very fine-tuned so that it shuts your propane off completely again 100
there's a few benefits to this device actually but the second thing is as you've probably been told
you're not supposed to drive with your propane on we have a refrigerator when we're driving going
long distance whatever and you have to shut it off and you don't want to run off of your
uh your generator that's say if you have a class a and you have an onboard generator you can run
off that generator with the gas stop device it does allow you to comfortably and safely run
your propane while you are traveling because if you were to get into a wreck god forbid
and a line was severed it's not going to ignite because that gas stop device will shut that
propane off you got it 100 and it shuts it off right there at the tank because that valve goes on
right at the tank so yes we do we travel with our propane on ever since we put them on vinnie
our our motorhome and uh and now we're putting it on the our airstream and we'll do the same thing
don't let anybody tell you that you have good enough protection on your propane tanks because
it's not the case and it could save somebody's life i mean it really could
these gas stop devices are really really good protection i'm going to be installing them
on our airstream there is an adapter that's needed and i want to clear something up with this adapter
because the size of the adapter when you read the size it really makes no sense because you
need the adapter because your hose end that you get from gas stop it's called gas gear it's a
90 degree angle and they're made for these tanks with covers so that that 90 degree angle will fit
inside that cover the hose on the gas gear does not fit in your regulator it's too small
so therefore you need this adapter the hose has a one-quarter inch end on it and so if it does
not fit in the regulator then it's bigger than one-quarter inch right well true but the adapter
is called a one-quarter inch inverted flare to a one-quarter inch mnpt there's a little bit
of confusion obviously with this adapter and why it's called one quarter inch to one quarter inch
um they're obviously not talking about the other end of this adapter that's bigger
but any adapter that i have ever worked with and in plumbing you know as no matter what it is and
all my years of construction working on cars i've kind of done a little bit of everything in my life
and it's always the female end is one size and the male end is another size well this is an exception
the acme connection are these that go with a tank cylinder like this or like your normal um barbecue
grill tank and then there's the pol connection pol connection is like a fixed tank that's in
your class a diesel pusher a motor home and you need one for each tank so we got these two tanks
here and when we put this tank cover over these tanks your gas stop device sticks out so far
and then you try to put your hose on your hose is rubbing right up against that tank cover
well you can try turning your tank but the problem then is when you have this bracket on here
if you turn it too much right now this this is pointing straight that way and you can't turn it
too much the other way either and then you come off of your your tank here if you turn too much
so you can't go too far one way and you can't go too far the other
so the solution is this here it's a 90 degree angle so you put your gas top device on and
put this on and you got a 90 degree angle so that your hose isn't smashed right up against your
cover and rubbing against it otherwise you have to leave your cover off and it doesn't look so pretty
like that and we want pretty right these hose connections like this is called gas gear so when
you get these and it goes into your regulator the threads don't match up so i call my contact
for a gas stop and uh he wasn't quite sure so he contacted somebody else and they
told him that we needed a one-quarter inch to one-quarter inch adapter my first thought was
how can you have one quarter inch and go into a fitting with a one-quarter inch and it fit
right i mean it's obviously bigger threads so i went to get one of the fittings
and i found one this is your one quarter and there's the other end you can see that those
two fittings are two different sizes this fits in here and then this fits into the regulator
like that something seemed wrong one quarter inch to one quarter inch
didn't seem right how could you need the same size fitting to go and fit on the other end
and uh he wasn't sure he couldn't tell me why so therefore i couldn't believe him
so i go and i find this adapter on my own at a local rv store here in texas and the guy there
told me yep that's one quarter inch to 3 8. then i get online i put this part number in
lo and behold it says one quarter inch to one quarter inch but what it's called is a one quarter
inch inverted flare to a one quarter inch m n p t i researched that on the internet i could not find
anything to explain it and my contact with gas stop couldn't explain it either he had to reach
out to somebody else well i thought they were cuckoo because one quarter inch toe one quarter
inch isn't going to fit something that's bigger than one quarter inch so if anybody out there
knows why it's called one quarter inch on each end when the threads are clearly two different sizes
uh let me know and even though this is a male a male one quarter inch is going to be
this which fits into the one-quarter inch female and as i showed you
they're two different sizes so the lesson here is to let you know if you run across this
go with it it's correct one quarter inch inverted flare to a one quarter inch mnpt even on the
packaging of this it does not say anywhere one quarter inch to one quarter inch it gives you the
part number if you look up that me2132 it'll tell you what it is online but when i went to find this
and uh the guy there at the rv store told me it was one quarter inch to three eighths
so enough beating that dead horse and uh sorry for that analogy so now i'm going to put this gas
top device on you want these gas stop devices pointing straight up at least or kind of a 45
degree angle you do not want them 90 degree or below if you get in colder weather basically
what happens is that little check valve ball in here that is fine-tuned to close the the propane
it drops so then you have to come out here and prime it three times three or four times whatever
it takes and then you'll see that needle go back up um best way to tell is on that gauge it's in
the red then it's off or you're out of propane but when you prime it you'll see the needle go back
up so this fitting that goes on here does not need to be thread taped does not need any
sealant or anything around it but this end that goes into your regulator does so you have to get
a gas tape like this so just wrap this around the threads just a couple times is good enough
make sure you don't get too far over the edge you don't want it to interfering with
your the hole there and you need to since this is turning this way you want to make sure your tape
goes on this way that way when you're turning this to thread it if your end went this way
and you're threading it it's going to push that opening of that tape the end of that tape back
the other way you want to make sure you don't cross thread this going in there i could have just
put the fitting on first and then put the line on there either way whatever is easier for you
need to hold the regulator just to make it sturdy it just needs to be good and snug now we'll spray
them both with soapy water just to make sure there's no leaks after i get this in put on here
and then as you can see you can still hold this and turn this to wherever you want
it's okay to do that that way you can get the hose located in the position that you want it
nice thing about these gas stop devices it also gives you another gauge sometimes these
old gauges like right here these get really foggy and kind of hard to read well this will also let
you know if your gas is getting low i know in our electronic readout inside they're not always very
accurate sometimes they vary quite a bit now i'm going to turn the propane back on
there will not be any gas going in there until you prime them now the gauge moved
check for bubbles if there's any pressure coming out of that at all it'll cause
a little bubbles that's the only way you can tell sometimes especially on a on a small leak
as you can see there's no bubbles coming out so looks like we're good
make sure you spray all your little connections even on the factory hoses connections and that
just to be sure i ran these lines i did have them underneath the valve i ran them over the top so
that they're not rubbing on this gauge here and some of the other metal parts when it's moving
around it just doesn't rub on as much got these turned just enough so that this hose isn't rubbing
this edge here they were turned in just a little bit too much so we'll see how that
works out we might have to move them around a little bit until we get them just perfect
as you can see that hose was rubbing a little bit that one about right there they've got this
valve tightened down to where that valve is is hitting straight if i turn it that angle
more then it's going to come off of this bracket if i turn it more this way then
this line is going to be rubbing into this here about right there it's about as good as we can get
now i just got to make sure now these hoses have a pivot point so but you want these gauges
pointing straight up as possible now we are 100 percent safe if there's any gas leaks it's going
to shut it off right here at the tank not 90 so the next time somebody tells you you don't need
a gas top device it's it's a waste because these propane tanks already have a safety device they do
they have a safety device but they don't shut the propane off 100 all it takes is you to listen to
somebody that doesn't know 100 percent of what they're talking about and i don't say
i do because i'll be the first to admit that i don't um this fitting was a perfect example
they're two different threads we don't need to go over that again but anyway um it could cost
somebody their life they really could so protect yourself with a gas stop device and uh make sure
you're good and your family oh stella you are family okay and your rv she got mad let's call it
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