DIY refilling Camping Gaz 907 bottles.

It is crucial to store spare cans in a suitable place that has a drain overboard. Anchor locker is a good idea.
Refilled cans may be expensive but if the valve isn't 100%, and butane being heavier than air, how expensive would a new boat be in the event of a spark?
Think before you do it please. I dont want to be moored alongside you!
 
That reminds me...in the 1970s, just after they issued petrol ration coupons (which were never actually implemented in the end) I tried running my BLMC 1300 (actually a Vanden Plas Princess 1300) on butane from a Camping Gaz cylinder. I used the vacuum line into the carburettor and varied the power by turning the knob!! I took it for a few trips round the block - great fun. The things an 18 year old will do just for the heck of it. My next door neighbour thought I'd gone round the bend.
 
Was in Oz a few years ago, went to get some petrol from the local garage and lo and behold a facility to fill your own gas bottle, a petrol pump like thingy to measure it and a left hand threaded pigtail to connect to the bottle. The thing was that you filled up and then unscrewed the pigtail to let the dregs go to atmosphere by the looks of it, point of this is of course that we are all happy to decant petrol willy nilly and yet are scaredof decanting gas? Not much difference in the product really, just a different boiling point.
Stu
 
Check out the prices in the Carrefour in Cherbourg Harbour next time youre over- cylinders just on a shelf in the camping section by the fish market entrance(v. Gallic).
Gaz seemed cheaper than here and only at back of inner harbour- say 20min with a trolley.
Trouble is our cylinder didn't empty til the day after we got back /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif
 
Ref DavidBradwell. Petrol can & gas bottle/cartridge whether full or "empty" are always stowed in a ventilated place on my boat. Sometimes I might carry cans of diesel in the cockpit locker.
 
The valves in C-Gaz cylinders are designed to be frequently disconnected and there is the screw plug handle as a belt/braces. After filling a quick bubble test would be wise. As Annie says, commonsense and if not confident get some one who is.
A
 
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