 Hey guys shave everyone thousand here today. I'm gonna show you how to clean out one of these tanks In case you want to cut it in half or make a little stove like I'm gonna do Stay tuned. I'll show you the safe way to do that Guys, we've got our tank here All right, this is the newer style valve. So if you open this valve up Nothing's going to come out whether you you know whether there's anything in it or not right in there There's a little like a little check valve that gets pushed in when you put this on your grill So if you want to make sure it's all out hook this up to your grill Or whatever one of those heaters or whatever and turn it on and make sure there's no gas left in here Also once you do that You can turn your valve open Take something and stick in there And push that valve sell that valve pushes down in can you guys see that let me? See that And hold that open you'll smell something. Don't don't be smoking while you're doing this guy, okay, and Then you're pretty good to go For now now what we're going to do is we got to get this valve out of here, okay? So what I'm going to do is I'm going to take it's welded in three places well there on the back right here and Right there now. I'm going to cut this off with a grinder with a four inch cutoff wheel and I'm going to cut them welds off and Try not to make any any sparks just in case, but you should be okay to do that I recommend using the saws all But I don't have one So I'm going to use my grinder and I'll show you how to do that Okay, guys. I just cut this off. I didn't hit record on the camera. I'm sorry, but I can show you there's those three Three well, you just cut them off. That'll pop right off. Okay Now we got to get this valve out of here. Okay now you can put it in a vise and here's the bottom If you want to hold that but all I'm going to do is I'm going to lay it down And I'm going to tap that around with the hammer. Okay, so I know it's empty But we're still want to take precautions, so be careful when you do this try to stay back away from this thing Just in case right so beat it right here on On that part right there Now if I had a vice I would put This bottom in a vice and I'd put a wrench on there and pull it around now inside here There'll be a valve and then you're gonna be smelling a lot of gas Now you see there's the valve What this does? This is liquid propane tank Okay, so what this valve does? It's kind of like how your fuel gauge works in your vehicle but once the propane gets up the liquid propane Gets up there and it raises this up It actually shuts it off. You can't overfill these things. So now you can also if you want You can save that piece and set this up Like that overnight slick with propane any gases that may be left in there residual gases Will come out don't do this inside of course so If that's you know leave it set overnight if you want Now the next thing but I'm not gonna do that. I know this is empty, but there still could be residual And I don't know if the camera can pick it up, but you can actually see them coming out Okay so But what we're gonna do next is I'm gonna purge it before I wash it, okay But just just for safety's sake I'm gonna leave this set here for about an hour and I'll be back with you Okay, guys, you don't have to do this step, but I'm going to I've done this with gas tanks for cars for motorcycles Lawn mowers you name it what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna start this I'm gonna start up the scooter and I'm gonna let the Exhaust gases from the scooter purge out this tank Because the exhaust gases we know is they're already they've already been burnt. They can't be burnt again So I'm gonna purge this and I'll show you how I'm gonna do that First we're gonna start the scooter and I'm gonna put this tank right underneath that exhaust And I'm gonna let this run for a minute just like this But I'm gonna prop it up So I don't have to hold she immediately start smelling the propane fumes So I'm gonna let that run for a minute And then we'll go on to step two and we're gonna rinse that tank out with soapy water Okay, guys, now I'm gonna take some of this cheap. It's just some cheap dish soap. It doesn't take a lot Just pour some of that in there just like that Grab your water hose Or however, you want to fill it up and I'm not gonna fill all the way up. I'm only gonna go All about halfway Then I'm gonna swish it around dump it out swish it around Make sure you get all that soapy water coated everywhere that you can Then I'm gonna dump it out on the ground just like that and I'm gonna do this two or three times Okay, so let me keep on doing this Okay, I've done that four times Now I'm just going to let it run out until I hardly see any more soap coming out and if you want you can also Run your exhaust through it again. If you want you don't have to Or you can leave it set upside down again overnight again. You don't have to but I'm gonna go ahead and fill this up And I'm gonna hold the hose here Once it gets full until I don't see any more soap coming out. We'll move on to the next step Okay, now that I've got it all rinsed out I'm gonna prove to you. There's no gas left in here. There's no water in this thing Take my torch Now if the torch ain't gonna light that up a few sparks is not gonna light it up But if you feel safer when you're cutting this if you've got a pneumatic cutoff wheel Don't use something electric like I've got You can fill this up with water Do your cutting wherever you want to cut it at if you feel safer But like I said right there that's clean if that torch ain't gonna light that up. Nothing is so that's how you clean your Propane tank if you want to cut one in half. All right guys, so there you go. That's how you do that You won't have any problems then you can cut on it all day long you can cut it with a torch You can cut it with a plasma cutter. It's not gonna blow up on you So there you go But if you want a straight a good straight cut I would use a cutoff wheel either pneumatic But if you're gonna fill it up with water, you want to want to use air something. That's not electric Like I said, I'll I've got I don't have a cutoff wheel for my pneumatic Cutoff thing whatever you want to call it But I do have my four inch grinder, so I'm not gonna fill it up with water But if you feel comfortable doing that by all means do it now stay tuned for part two where I'm gonna cut a hole out in this thing and We're gonna make a little a little stove out of it Now the reason why I'm gonna make a little stove. I know tank camping down here It doesn't really get all that cold. That's usually what guys make these for but we have a lot of hurricanes So if the electric goes out, I'll have something to cook on So stay tuned for part two where we're gonna start building this little stove Thanks for watching. Remember stay safe guys. Shea Bear 1000 met the man alleged. I'm gone for now. Bye. Bye guys. Take care