Extortionate Campingaz 907 refill costs

[Mavis]

Having just paid through the nose and forked out a massive £30.00 for a Campingaz 907 (2.75kg Butane) refill I note with much interest that Calor and Propane gas is something in the way of 50% per kg cheaper!!. My question is will my trusty old Vanessa Flavel cooker run on either Calor or Propane?? and if so would either of them come in a gas bottle the same size as the 907 to suit my gas locker. Initial Google searching suggests not.
Thank you.

 

[lustyd]

Having just paid through the nose and forked out a massive £30.00 for a Campingaz 907 (2.75kg Butane) refill I note with much interest that Calor and Propane gas is something in the way of 50% per kg cheaper!!. My question is will my trusty old Vanessa Flavel cooker run on either Calor or Propane?? and if so would either of them come in a gas bottle the same size as the 907 to suit my gas locker. Initial Google searching suggests not.
Thank you.

A friend of mine made his own manifold and now fills his own from a big home sized bottle

 

[Tranona]

Exactly. That is why Camping Gaz get away with high prices as alternatives will not fit. Your cooker will run on Calor, but you may have difficulty in finding space for the bottle if your locker was designed to take a 907.

Annoying though it is unless you are living on board for long periods the cost of gas is tiny in relation to the overall cost of running a boat.

 

[vyv_cox]

It would be surprising if it did not. Our gas locker was designed for two 907 bottles but I found I could fit one Calor and one 907, so used to alternate between the two. The cooker, although not the same one as yours, could not tell the difference. In Greece we use the equivalent of 907 bottles that are mostly refilled in the back yards of supermarkets and filling stations from locally bought butane, which is probably very similar to UK Calor.

The cooker and fridge in my camper van normally runs on propane with a 30 mbar regulator but has also run on butane. You could run your cooker on propane but not on a butane regulator. If you were serious about changing gases the best way to go would be to fit a bulkhead 30mbar regulator instead of the specific bottle ones.

 

[l'escargot]

I used to have a Vanessa and it ran on butane Calor Gas. I think the smallest bottles they do are 4.5kg though and they are considerably taller than the Gaz one.

 

[Stork_III]

The small Butane/Propane Calor bottle, 3.9/4.5 kg, is 240mm diax340 high, 907 203mm diax250 high. It may fit, borrow one and check.

 

[pagoda]

The small Butane/Propane Calor bottle, 3.9/4.5 kg, is 240mm diax340 high, 907 203mm diax250 high. It may fit, borrow one and check.

I ditched the 907 for Calor 4.5Kg Butane. It just sneaks under the cover of the gas locker. Much better value.....

And if you decide it will fit, go along to your local re-cycling centre/dump and talk nicely to the staff. Explain you have just got a caravan- but don't have a bottle to swap for a re-fill. ( and don't want a £30-£40 surcharge/bottle deposit!!) You want to re-cycle one of their collection of cast - offs !
I have had no problem convincing them

They probably are not allowed to do it, but many do quite happily since it's in the real spirit of re-cycling, rather than scrapping bottles people no longer want!

 

[Jabs]

Having just paid through the nose and forked out a massive £30.00 for a Campingaz 907 (2.75kg Butane) refill I note with much interest that Calor and Propane gas is something in the way of 50% per kg cheaper!!. My question is will my trusty old Vanessa Flavel cooker run on either Calor or Propane?? and if so would either of them come in a gas bottle the same size as the 907 to suit my gas locker. Initial Google searching suggests not.
Thank you.

You can buy it at a petrol station for about 80p a litre!

Buy bits and bobs from Gaslow and refill your own bottle.

The whole business is an absolute rip off and makes Chandlery look like a charity!

Tony.

 

[davidej]

But what do you do when you go abroad.

I have yet to find anYwhere outside the UK that will re-fill/excharge Calor gas bottles but Camping gaz seems to be available most places

 

[NickRobinson]

A friend of mine has just filled 4 907's (60/70% full according to the luggage scales)from a large Calor propane bottle for c. 10 pounds..

It is enjoyable swapping an empty on the boat - rather than thinking 'there goes another 25 pounds..' (did the OP pay 30?)

Essential for winter use too-

 

[capnsensible]

But what do you do when you go abroad.

I have yet to find anYwhere outside the UK that will re-fill/excharge Calor gas bottles but Camping gaz seems to be available most places

Never had a problem. Spain, Canaries, Carib, etc. Its just butane.

10 euro a refill I Ceuta!

 

[VicS]

But what do you do when you go abroad.

I have yet to find anYwhere outside the UK that will re-fill/excharge Calor gas bottles but Camping gaz seems to be available most places

You have your system "plumbed" so that it will take a small Calor butane cylinder.

You buy an i adapter valve that fits the Camping Gaz cylinder and allows it to be connected to the system in place of the Calor butane cylinder.

You then use Calor butane in the Uk and Camping gaz where Calor butane is not avaialble.


Perhaps the OP's cooker will operate at on propane at 30mb if so a 30mb dual fuel regulator in place of the standard butane one will enable Propane to aslo be an alternative. Propane would be useful during cold weather as it is useable at much lower temperatures than butane.

 

[[3889]]

But what do you do when you go abroad.

I have yet to find anYwhere outside the UK that will re-fill/excharge Calor gas bottles but Camping gaz seems to be available most places

I fill my Calor propane at filling stations in France without any issues.

 

[nigelmercier]

It's a real pity that the Disa nu-b concept hasn't been widely adopted, it is perfect for a boat:

http://www.disagrupo.es/inicio.aspx?module=glpenvasadonub

 

[Mavis]

Thanks for all the replies. That Disa Nu-b looks good once I translated the page