GuitarPhotog wrote:The F273701 is the one I have. No gas flows to the appliance. The tank valve opens OK, there's gas trapped in the nut that escapes when I disconnect the hose from the tank. But the appliance doesn't seem to open the cut-in the appliance end of the hose.
The tanks all work with other appliances, so it's not the cut-off valve in the tank that prevents opening the tank with no hose connected.
<Chas>
halfdome, Danny wrote:Are you sure your threading it into the appliance correctly?
At The Dam Gathering the lady who owns my 2010 TD was having issues with the Camp Chef stove & oven in her teardrop.
She was ready to give it away.
I found out she wasn't threading backwards until she heard a click from the starting thread and then turning it to the right until it stopped.
Last report the stove was working properly.
Danny
GuitarPhotog wrote:So I spent some time with my dial caliper depth gauge and decided that the center post of the appliances are just about 0.05" too short to open the valve in the hose (the part that emulates a 1 lb can). I realized that I could fix the problem by removing a corresponding amount from the mounting flange on the hose connector. I ground it down with an angle grinder and finished up with a stone in the Dremel tool and it all works fine now.
I still don't know why the problem exists. The appliances (stove and lantern) are both about 10 years old, so perhaps the spec changed, or they were worn, or...? But I figured that I had nothing to lose since I lost the receipt for the hose and couldn't return it.
The problem seems fairly common, I med a guy at the DAM Gathering who was having the same problem. He solved his by tightening down the appliance end connector really tight. And last year at Lopez Lake the guy next to me had the same problem.
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