Propane tanks

[fish1trap]

I exchanged my propane tank and just happen to look at the side of it because I was running low and it is a 15lb not the 20lb I exchanged for it. The price was the same??? Did I miss something..

[Tom7227]

yea, it looks like youre missing about 5 lbs of propane. The exchange thing has to be a rip off. How can you drive a truck around and service all of that for the same price as a re-fill?

[walleyewild]

The tanks are the same size but to expect 20# and only get 15# is a rip off in my book.

It's like grabbing a bag of dog food and find it has gone from 40# to 35# and the price went up.

Now I read labels.

WW

[eyebjim]

The last exchange I got had a sticker on the side saying filled to 17 lbs. What a rip off. I will be getting them filled from now on.

[tsande00]

HUGE rip off. I exchanged the other night. Cost $24 at a name brand gas station near my house. Received a 15 pounder, didn't realize it until it was too late.

eyebjim - do you know where in wright county you can get them filled at? Seems most places have gone towards the exchange route.

[croixflats]

Jiminy! $24! with the average refill of a 20# being $20 thats like a hundred dollars difference. Dang what a rip off

Wasn'T there a thread earlier in the year mentioning a lawsuit against that company, Rhino?, for not labeling the incorrect,20#er, amount on the tanks and selling them as 20. At least their labeling it now.

Wonder how the law suit is going.

[walleyewild]

Just had 2-20# filled 38.95 so about a buck a pound.

The guy at the place I get them filled at said that the colored animal or one of the other exchange places is putting a BB in the tank valves that some how blocks the valve and won't allow them to be refilled, unless you can find a strong magnet to pull the BB out of the way of the opd valve, so you have to do the exchange.

What will they think of next, chipped tanks that will only allow a company with the unlock code to fill them?

WW

[Jeremy airjer W]

The guy at the place I get them filled at said that the colored animal or one of the other exchange places is putting a BB in the tank valves that some how blocks the valve and won't allow them to be refilled, unless you can find a strong magnet to pull the BB out of the way of the opd valve, so you have to do the exchange.

That was blue rhino that was doing that several years ago. You could tell it had the special valve by the triangle shaped indent on the side. After blue rhino was bought by Farrel Gas, farrel got rid of those valves. So unless something has changed in the last year you will unlikely find anymore of those valves on blue rhino tanks.