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    Morning wood can really interfere with your schedule, but I find it worthwhile and even my wife has started to agree with me.
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    Originally posted by cancer man
    I don't understand camping with propane. Only wood.
    yeah, i'll just set up a firepit in the camper to not freeze in april...

    I use wood and campfires for 90% of cooking, but it doesn't heat the trailer.
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    i actually found a pretty good way to check them, it requires them being off the vehicle, but it's the most reliable way i have found, i just use a luggage scale.. typical cylinder weighs around 17 lbs empty (it should be stamped on the collar "tare"), so if you grab your luggage scale and give it a hoist, if it's 33+, it's full, 20- it's empty (or close) anywhere in between, you get the point...

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    The ones from Lee valley have worked great for me. You need a kettle of hot water, but they aren't ambiguous.
    http://www.leevalley.com/en/Garden/p...733,40996&ap=1

    I think the other stick-on ones work the same way, and should be jsut as reliable.

    I have one of the pressure based ones that you thread onto the outlet, but I don't find it very informative.

    Scale is also pretty easy and reliable.

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    Yeah, it works on temperature difference. You need to pour hot water every time. It's not perfect, but it does work.
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    $35 for a glorified scale, wont work on trailers because the tank is typically held on with a big clamp
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    I don't think I've ever even checked the level of a tank, other than pick it up and give it a shake. I can tell if it's less than half or more than half. But I just top both up every time I go out camping. Fill up the truck with gas, fill up the tanks. I've never run out with 60 lbs total LPG. Longest we've gone is two weeks.

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    Both my 30 lb tanks are expired now. Anyone noticed if Costco is having a sale on new tanks recently, or should I just go get the re-certified? Or I've heard some places do an exchange program where they take the expired tank and sell you a re-certified one, so you don't have to wait.

    Any recent price info on 30 lb tanks?
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    We get all our shop tanks done at Canwest Propane, off glenmore/52 st ish. Decent prices for recertify, call to ask how much it costs

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    Originally posted by ExtraSlow
    Both my 30 lb tanks are expired now. Anyone noticed if Costco is having a sale on new tanks recently, or should I just go get the re-certified? Or I've heard some places do an exchange program where they take the expired tank and sell you a re-certified one, so you don't have to wait.

    Any recent price info on 30 lb tanks?

    Only seen the 20lb tanks on sale at Costco.

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    I'm sure someone told me that the Costco gas bars sometimes sell the 30 lb tanks.

    I converted my last trailer over to 20 lb tanks, and had no regrets, but was planning to keep this one on 2x30.
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    Originally posted by ExtraSlow
    I'm sure someone told me that the Costco gas bars sometimes sell the 30 lb tanks.

    I converted my last trailer over to 20 lb tanks, and had no regrets, but was planning to keep this one on 2x30.
    I don't know about the gas bars, but I bought my last 30's from inside the store. The one up in the north. I paid $49 for them, but that was a couple years ago. The Propane was a little more. I think the tanks have gone up and the propane has dropped.
    ~ $59(?) for the tank....and I think $13 for the fill on a 30 lb'er.

    Recirt for the old 30's is around $45-50 IIRC.
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