Replacing the CNG tank

Well I knew this moment would come. I ran out of stove gas while we were making dinner. No idea how old the tank was that was hooked up, but I went about a year ago and got a replacement back-up tank. There’s no resource online about how to swap them out and I was admittedly afraid because it’s highly flammable. Thanks to Jim on my dock, he said it was just like scuba tanks. Great- I’ve never done that either.

Anyways, it was late and we needed to keep the water boiling to make dinner so I went to it. Really it’s like changing anything out, except for some reason gas stuff doesn’t abide by “righty tighty lefty loosey”. It took about 10 minutes of wrenching until I try the other way, clockwise to loosen, and it worked.

New tank plugged in, supposedly 40 burn hours of gas for our future cooking, easy job.