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Originally Posted by freebeard
Not trying to talk you out of it, I just know someone who claimed he'd just finished restoring a motor home when the propane tank took off like a bottle rocket inside his garage.  |
Probably urban myth. They don't do that on their own unless dropped or damaged some way in the fuel valve to tank fitting. The walls on the connections of the tank are high pressure rated.
Outdoor tanks of large capacity have thick beefy tank walls. I had one outside for the 20 years I lived in that house and the paint didn't even rust on the exterior, but the valve access covers rusted apart. There's probably commercial tanks that have been in use for 50 years in remote places like Minnesota farm towns