very helpful video, as always, i've got a few of these regulators and just started breaking them down, those nozzles are usually cast al. so you want to get those too, anywhere from 4-6 on a grill, and they have some nice brass inside them as well, along with the connectors. i usually just hammer those plastic bottle connectors, couple/three hits and they break right off, on the stainless hose you can crimp it inside the brass fitting (with a screwdriver) and it just falls out... those two methods save on your grinding wheels, and it takes about the same amount of time.

Great video

I love your videos there always full of good information for a beginning scrapper like me. Thanks!

No good scrapper ever leaves home without 2 screwdrivers, dykes, channel-locks, claw hammer, vice grip, pry bar, and a knife....more than needed to get the valves too!

Thanks for sharing. Love scrapping bbq

Very interesting

FYI, some of the newer regulators can be zinc as well.

I had one of those regulators aside waiting for your video... Thanks for the tips.

Thanks for video. I get them all the time

As always, very informative. Thank you. 👍

Totally agree with you regarding the angle grinder. I go one step farther with the safety and don my leather welding jacket when I am grinding, definitely no short sleeves.

you would be better off to take a pair of vice grips and get the whole hose fitting too and also dont forget the grates for steel

Good stuff! I had no idea the regulators were cast aluminum. Just starting scrapping and BBQs seem to be plentiful right now so this will help.

That "rubber thingy" is properly called a diaphragm. Time to get some proper tools! Got a Mastercraft 40 piece socket set at a garage sale for $10 last Sat.....some have combo wrenches too. Seems like a lot of wasted time taking apart those regulators.

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I bought some Muriatic acid so I could tell the difference between zinc and aluminum. I tested my cast aluminum and got a reaction. Does this mean it is actually zinc, or that the cast aluminum has some zinc in it? How do I tell?

Do you have a trick to opening these up? No matter how hard I beat them dont seem to open up for me lol resorted to just throwing the piece in dirty aluminum pile

Diaphragm