The Silver Streak E-mail ListArchive Files[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [SilverStreak] replacing steel piping with copper
Thanks Eddie! I was hoping you'd respond! -- I always appreciate your comments and advice -- plus the time you invest in providing wisdom to the hundreds of questions on the list. Jason ----- Original Message ----- > Jason, > Copper, especially then, and now, is expensive. It was not used. Steel is > also resistant to rocks and other failure that the soft copper is not. You > can change to copper. I do it all the time on forklift new installations. > There is only slight pressure on the lines anyway, since pressure is > regulated at the bottle. > > Never use copper with Natural Gas, as a reaction occurs to the copper > causing a shedding and plugging up of the systems. > > Your steel lines will not internally fail with propane. If there is no > external failure, there is no benefit to making a change. If rusty, simply > liberally paint with any aluminum paint and you need not prep before > painting with aluminum paint. You can check for line integrity, at many > times the possible leak operating pressure. If you want to do that, let me > know. > -Eddie- > Houston, TX
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