Propane tank warmer

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Fri Nov 17, 2006 9:27 pm

If you are heating this up to 70-80 degrees then you have nothing to worry about with that pvc tank-holder. As long as you remain 100 or below, you should be fine.

As for insulating this, use one wrap of duct tape around the bottle.

I'd also put a tempy gauge on this thing. Maybe get fancy and hook the heater circuit with a relay connected to a temperature switch. You should make this heater adjustable with a potentiometer too.
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Tue Nov 21, 2006 6:20 pm

w/e this is why i dont use combustion , y dose every one over power things like if pipes r rated for 80psi y shuld u go over that amout ur just putting urself at risk even with combution that is what my dad (mechanical engineer said)
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Tue Nov 21, 2006 6:41 pm

Wow your an idiot read everything before you post. He is just heating his tank so it doesn't take 5minutes to fill his gun he isn't overpressurizing anything.
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Wed Nov 22, 2006 2:59 pm

Sorry if you have already decided on one of these ideas because then I would just be adding this for nothing, but if you somehow modded an electric blanket to run on a battery you could just wrap it around the tank.
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