Sort of dumb gas grill question

[Fanatical Meat]

So I’ve come across a propane tank and coincidentally I was thinking about getting a spare tank.
This tank is more than 10 years old but chess than 15 years old, it’s been in storage doesn’t have much rust and feels about 1/3rd full.
Is it safe to use fuel that’s been stored so long? Does propane become something different over time?
I won’t refill it I’ll exchange it for one of those pick up & drop off service type things.

 

[highland145]

Here, they won't refill it anyway (age). I'd just swap it.

 

[snoopy7548]

It's certainly past the lifespan of the tank, but the propane might be OK. There could be some condensation inside the tank. I would just trade it in and not bother trying to use what little is left.

 

[BoomerD]

Odds are, the gas inside is fine..., so, the question is...do ya feel lucky punk? Well...do ya?

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Excellent points guys, I forgot the tanks do have a useful life span.
I do the swaperoo

 

[highland145]

I do the swaperoo

TMI

 

[IronWing]

Older tanks don't have an overfill preventer and can't be refilled. Swapping is your best bet.

 

[dainthomas]

The gas sat in the ground for however many millions of years, so I'm not sure why it wouldn't continue to be good.

 

[highland145]

The gas sat in the ground for however many millions of years, so I'm not sure why it wouldn't continue to be good.

The gas should be fine so the OP should grill this weekend. The tanks fail.

I keep a full spare. Might grill once a month but I don't want to have half cooked burgers chilling on it. And every 4 or 5 years that we get ice/snow, I might have to cook on it.

 

[dainthomas]

The gas should be fine so the OP should grill this weekend. The tanks fail.

I keep a full spare. Might grill once a month but I don't want to have half cooked burgers chilling on it. And every 4 or 5 years that we get ice/snow, I might have to cook on it.

If a tank was sitting outside that long I probably wouldn't use it, but inside it should be fine. He can exchange it once it's empty.

I also keep a spare, pretty annoying to have to run and fill a tank in the middle of cooking dinner.

 

[Luna1968]

Excellent points guys, I forgot the tanks do have a useful life span.
I do the swaperoo

ive taken a couple of my propane tanks to a propane dealer and had them re-certify the tanks for 10 bucks each.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

ive taken a couple of my propane tanks to a propane dealer and had them re-certify the tanks for 10 bucks each.

Decent plan however this will just be a back up tank. I'll swap it tonight at the market.

 

[blackangst1]

Real men use charcoal.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Real men use charcoal.

I know man, I just don't have the time for that.

 

[Red Squirrel]

One nice thing about propane and most "gas" fuels (as opposed to liquid) is it does not tend to go bad. It's more pure. Things like gasoline and diesel have all sorts of other stuff in them and go bad over time but things like propane and natural gas are essentially just one element. Well there's other things in it such as the smell they add but don't think those break down in any weird way.

 

[lxskllr]

I wonder if gasoline would go bad if it were in something like a propane tank. Air and humidity trash gasoline. Keep it completely sealed it should last. Maybe not forever, but a long time.

 

[highland145]

I wonder if gasoline would go bad if it were in something like a propane tank. Air and humidity trash gasoline. Keep it completely sealed it should last. Maybe not forever, but a long time.

Your government can figure a way to fuck it up. Don't doubt me.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

I wonder if gasoline would go bad if it were in something like a propane tank. Air and humidity trash gasoline. Keep it completely sealed it should last. Maybe not forever, but a long time.

Your government can figure a way to fuck it up. Don't doubt me.

Didn’t some high end real old school gas cans have a pump to add pressure to the can to keep the gas from evaporating?
Sort of remember something like that when I was a kid, they were banned because they exploded more easily or something.

Maybe I’m wrong, not sure about this

 

[highland145]

Didn’t some high end real old school gas cans have a pump to add pressure to the can to keep the gas from evaporating?
Sort of remember something like that when I was a kid, they were banned because they exploded more easily or something.

Maybe I’m wrong, not sure about this

Dafuq, I'm 27.


Kidding, 55, but not in my memory.

Our local Moses's, Perk. Boomer. Elfenix. Esquared. Surely remember.

He'll, they remember when gas stations paid you.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Dafuq, I'm 27.


Kidding, 55, but not in my memory.

Our local Moses's, Perk. Boomer. Elfenix. Esquared. Surely remember.

He'll, they remember when gas stations paid you.

I could be wrong but I remember my uncle having something like that in his shed, weird screw on cap for it too.
I was a young kid so I may be confused.

 

[highland145]

I could be wrong but I remember my uncle having something like that in his shed, weird screw on cap for it too.
I was a young kid so I may be confused.

Propane.....homemade still...

I understand and am I in for 7.


Might also go along with they put 70% nitrogen in your tires....

 

[Red Squirrel]

Dafuq, I'm 27.


Kidding, 55, but not in my memory.

Our local Moses's, Perk. Boomer. Elfenix. Esquared. Surely remember.

He'll, they remember when gas stations paid you.

Pretty sure in their time everything was mostly horse powered until the invention of the steam engine.

 

[highland145]

Pretty sure in their time everything was mostly horse powered until the invention of the steam engine.

Damned shame they couldn't capture the brothels.

He'll, boomer and perk could have averted the 1426 crash alone.

 

[JEDIYoda]

Actually I think it was Boomer who invented the Oil Drilling Rig....taken from Wikipedia....go figure@!!
On August 28, 1859, Boomer and Perknose made the first successful use of a drilling rig on a well drilled especially to produce oil, at a site on Oil Creek near Titusville, Pennsylvania.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Propane.....homemade still...

I understand and am I in for 7.


Might also go along with they put 70% nitrogen in your tires....

You may be on to something with the still because:

She married her first husband when she was very young. Recently found out she just turned 15 when she married and I think the dude was 32
First Husband was into all sorts of petty crimes like loan scams, cheating at poker and something else that I forgot.
I think she divorced him in the early 30’s

Would not surprise me at all if that was a part to a still.
Also I remember the shed where it was having metal & copper tubing in it. When I was visiting her in the 70s-80s the house was surrounded by newer houses, I know it was way in the woods with one or two other houses before the 60s.