Quick disconnect adapter

[mpanozzo]

This may be too simple, but after two days of searching I've been stumped.
I just purchased a Starcraft 2600. It has a gas line to the side with a quick disconnect adapter on it. I don't what to buy an RVQ grill, which has the male QD adapter on it. I want to buy a new Weber Q, which uses 1 lbs. throw away tanks. Does anyone know of a source for a propane hose with a 1"x20 male Throw Away Cylinder thread on one end and a male QD connector on the other end so that it can be hooked up to the female QD on the camper?
So far I've come up with the adapters I would need to do this hook up, but it would cost $46 for the connectors and then I still need a hose with 1/4" female pipe connectors at both ends.  This amount would give me a QD at the grill end also.   Argggg! I may want something that is illegal to own because its so simple in concept.  Any help would be most appreciated.  Thanks.

[Tim5055]

You may have difficulty doing this because the two different devices use different gas pressures.

The small bottle produces "tank pressure", otherwise known as high pressure (HP) the same as right off your large LP gas tank.

The quick connect adaptor is a low pressure outlet (i.e., it is after tank pressure has been reduced by a pressure regulator).

If you plug a device that needs HP into a LP source you will not get sufficient gas flow for the device to work properly.

LP can use a quick connect by gas/fire codes.  HP requires a positive connection, i.e. screwing it into place.

[campingboaters]

What you need to do is get an adapter to screw into your propane tank to have two lines coming off of it and then get a hose that hooks into that adapter and has the same end as the small propane tanks do.  That's what we did on our old Coleman popup.  You can either disconnect the hose after each trip or coil it into the propane cover (if you have one) and zip it closed.

Camping world has it here: http://www.campingworld.com/browse/skus/index.cfm?deptID=&subOf=151&skunum=24020

[Firefyter-Emt]

Egawd.. I have been all over this myself!! Trust me, it is too much work. Like stated, you have a low psi output on your camper (I am pretty sure to be code, they must all be low psi) I was albe to make a pig tail using adaptors before my regulator and making a "T" with a ball valve to shut it off. My regulator is hooked after this "T" to supply the capmer. "From there I had a small pigtail with a female quick disconnect. I also have a 9 foot extension that is male quick disconnect to female disp. bottle to hook to my stove of lantern if the need be. But, it was way too expesnive, too much of a pain and not worth the effort. I still use the bottles.

Here is a photo off my web site of the plumbing when I streached the frame in the front of the camper.

BTW, the valve just barely swings over the top of the valve and fits perfectly in line with the low psi regulator when turned on.

[tlhdoc]

If you have 2 propane tanks, you can do what I do.  I have a 12 foot propane hose (with the fitting that matches the throw away tanks) that I connect to the second tank and run appliances from that.