Old style propane tank adapter

[Hookmaster]

I have an old style 20# propane tank that is half full. It does not have the newer valve with the safety valve. I would like to use it up. Is there an adapter so I could use it on my BBQ grill or my Big Buddy heater? I could use it with my heater/cooker but I don't use that heater much now that I have the Big Buddy.

[Jim Almquist]

I have seen that exact adapter at L & M but I would guess a Fleet farm or a decent hardware store would carry them. You screw the old style on and now you can use a new style hose.

[Macgyver55]

I have one I rarely use sitting right in front of me on the bench.

Yours to use if you need it....do you ever get up Coon Rapids way?

[Tom7227]

Kind of hard to screw around too much for only $10 worth of propane. Get a railroad flare and light it and then shoot the tank with a rifle. Heck of a fireball if you do it right. DO NOT TRY THIS INDOORS!

[MJBaldwin]

Your buddy heater adapter should be an internal thread as well as the old tank should be that will should work. Others wise FF or Menards will have that adapter you are looking for

[Hookmaster]

Thanks for the offer Macgyver55 but I don't get up that way very often. I used to weekly when my daughter was in an air rifle club at the Legion. It's not worth it for me to make a special trip to pick it up. But I still want to use up the propane.

Thinking more about it, I think if I use the hose for my Heater/Cooker, I can attach it to one of the 1 pound tank connections on the Big Buddy. The newer hose I have been using is the quick disconnect.

[Tom7227]

I think that the external threads are the same - it is the internal threads that are used to fill the tanks that are different. I can hook my old sunflower heater up to the new tanks.

[Tom7227]

I think that the external threads are the same - it is the internal threads that are used to fill the tanks that are different. I can hook my old sunflower heater up to the new tanks.

I think I have that backwards - the internal ones are the same and I think the old hookups still work.

[Jeremy airjer W]

The internal thread are the same. Its the external threads that are "new".

[Hookmaster]

As I thought more about it, if I hook up my heater/cooker hose it would work but then I need the filter. With the quick disconnect hose I do not need the filter.