French canals - swap empty gas bottles?

[whiteoaks7]

We're in Paris Arsenal 26th May, travelling south and want to swap empty 4.7 kg Calor bottle for any 'French' butane bottle. I.e if you're going north and want Calor while we're going south and want Camping, Prima etc we can help each other out. Must have either camping gaz or calor fitting though. Text me on 07977 222609 if you think we can meet up. Cheers, David Berry

 

[prescott56]

Hi David,
We did teh trip last year and ended up buying a french "le Cube" gas bottle and fitting. Was about 30-40 Euro's for full bottle and regulator. do a google and you will get the dimensions, i managed to get only one bottle in, but they are available all the way down to the med. we got ours at the bricomarche in cherbourg.
regards
Roy

 

[Grehan]

I also looked at 'Le Cube', which is plastic and won't rust. In the end, couldn't fit it in easily, and we were heading out of France at that time, so didn't get one.

 

[LadyInBed]

Have a look at this Forum and also this one and this one

can you buy an adaptor that allows you to connect continental gas bottles to a system that currently is using calor?

Yes it is possible and relatively easy, on my Laika which has a panel mounted changeover regulator, similar to a Gaslow unit with 2 flexible pipes, I bought a French "Le Cube" propane gas bottle and a clip on regulator with flexible pipe, I now have 1 Calor propane and 1 Le Cube propane in my gas locker, when in France I use Le Cube and if it runs out I just switch over to Calor until I can get a refill, then just switch back again and keep the Calor as backup, then do the opposite when back in the UK.
One point to bear in mind though is that Le Cube is only 5kg of gas unlike Calor thats 6kg.
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A set of adapters is available (see the following links)

http://conx2gas.com/

http://www.outdoorbits.com/conx2gas-universal-fitting-p-763.html

This is intended to allow a range of non-UK LPG bottles to be connected to a leisure vehicle's gas system that uses a 'POL' connector of the type traditionally employed on UK propane bottles. The product is not cheap and (despite the claims) it needs saying that there will be plenty of 'foreign' bottles that will require a supplementary adapter to permit them to be used.