Camping Gaz woes

[matt1]

My newly swapped R907 won’t stay alight all round the burner ring on my hob and is burning intermittently. I’ve changed to a new regulator with the same result. However, the remnants of an old R904 bottle work fine (with both the old and new regulator). After some haggling the provider I bought it from swapped it over but the replacement bottle delivers the same result (both new bottles looked to have been freshly refurbished). What else can I try?

I’m suspecting it’s the newly refurbished bottles having been purged with nitrogen and some of it lingering in the bottle.

Will any Camping Gaz provider be under an obligation to swap it - obviously I don’t want to have it replaced from the same batch that has already proved to be ineffective

 

[ylop]

Presumably if that is an issue they would have protocol to avoid it. It’s almost believable that one cylinder was not treated right but harder to imagine multiple (although of course it could by systematic human error on the whole batch).

Butane is much denser than nitrogen so if left to sit the nitrogen would come to the top and presumably emerge first? If that were the case the problem should get better with time? Equally, presumably agitating the cylinder would mix the two so that you get less nitrogen (I would close the valve give a good shake and then open the valve and see if the flame improves). If you changed regulator you will have vented the pipe - so that will take a little time flush through too.

 

[Momac]

I had this last year. I vented off a little gas with the cylinder off the boat by pressing down on the valve with a small painbrush handle.
This sorted it.
I think they had over filled the cylinder.

 

[sarabande]

Camping Gaz ties you in to expensive refills, and does not work well when it's cold.

Change to propane ( red bottles) with various sizes available. And buy a refill hose for DIY replenishment. Easy and CHEAP.

The forum has full instructions on safe refilling. The whole refilling discussion is here:

Search results for query: Propane refill

A relatively small capital expense on a propane regulator but it gives you great supply independence, and you know exactly what gas is going into the bottles, unlike with Camping Gaz.

 

[Stemar]

There are only two reasons for using Camping Gaz, either your gas locker is too small for anything else, and you've no alternative, or you spend a lot of time going between the Continent and the UK.

A possible third reason is more money than sense, but as a fully qualified tightwad, that one makes me feel ill.

Beware of poking the ball valve. My uncle had a bottle that required this to work. The third or fourth time he poked the ball, and it flew out, along with the contents of the bottle It could have been bad enough in an open campsite. I hate to think of the potential consequences in the confines of a boat