On Mon, 09 Jan 2006 22:45:18 -0600, "Martin H. Eastburn"
wrote:

The valve by design is supposed to turn off due to the internal float.
It is designed to save our little skins from the bad propane bottles... :-)
Maybe you have one that is not functional.

Martin
Martin Eastburn
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Greetings Martin,
After thinking about this a little it seems to me that liquid would
come out just fine. When the tank is upright the float rises with the
liquid until the valve is shut off. When the tank is inverted wouldn't
the float now rise again? Except this time when it rises it is toward
the bottom of the tank because the bottom is now at the top. This
should open the valve. I guess the only way to test this is to invert
my OPD tank with a torch screwed into it.
ERS

wrote:
I just held the 20 # tank upsidedown. The fact that it was an OPD
valve tank did not seem to matter.

Dan


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