Old Harry
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No you buy it unlike the calor rental scam
Gas
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jdc
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There's far too much illogical and actually dim objection to refilling.
Go and fill it up from another bottle! Don't over-fill so keep tabs on the tare weight and the capacity, but in danger terms it's really no worse than filling up an outboard from a petrol can.
I have often filled a flask with liquid nitrogen. Well, that's a gas which boils at -196 C! It would be no issue whatsoever to do the same with Butane or Propane (about 0 C and -40 C boiling point respectively). The only difference is flammability but if the chamber is not open to the outside and you're not smoking why worry so much? Get a numerate grip.
I liken the whole procedure to eating wild fungi (1). If you don't know what you're doing then don't do it. But that gives you no right to say that those who have bothered to acquire a little bit of knowledge are irresponsible.
(1): Only one bad night after what I still think were chanterelles...
Go and fill it up from another bottle! Don't over-fill so keep tabs on the tare weight and the capacity, but in danger terms it's really no worse than filling up an outboard from a petrol can.
I have often filled a flask with liquid nitrogen. Well, that's a gas which boils at -196 C! It would be no issue whatsoever to do the same with Butane or Propane (about 0 C and -40 C boiling point respectively). The only difference is flammability but if the chamber is not open to the outside and you're not smoking why worry so much? Get a numerate grip.
I liken the whole procedure to eating wild fungi (1). If you don't know what you're doing then don't do it. But that gives you no right to say that those who have bothered to acquire a little bit of knowledge are irresponsible.
(1): Only one bad night after what I still think were chanterelles...
Spirit (of Glenans)
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Try O'Meara Camping for the clip-on connector for your CG cylinder.
I suspect that Calor bottles in UK (inc NI) may have different outlets to the ones in ROI. On cursory checking of Youtube videos, the UK ones seem to have a screw-on connector, while the ones we have in Ireland have a circular clip which must be held up while applying the connector then pushed down to secure it.
Spirit (of Glenans)
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In Ireland the Calor bottle, like the Gaz, is a once-off purchase. They won't buy them back.
doug748
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Camping Gaz I asked the marina yesterday, 40 quid! Last year was 30.
Only a few years ago I was paying just over £22 in the UK and as little as 16e if France.
Stemar
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I had a friend who thought he knew his mushrooms. Turned out he didn't know that the ones that look like field mushrooms, but turn yellow when you cut them aren't field mushrooms...
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
Many years ago, I had an LPG powered camper. I had a pump and bought the big propane cylinders, turned them upside down and pumped the gas into the van. I never had a problem, but only ever did it in the middle of a field away from everybody and everything. The idea of someone wandering down the pontoon, fag in gob, while I'm decanting butane ... well, no. Just no.
The only reason I can see for not switching to the 4.5 kg Calor bottles in the UK or their local equivalent is because it really is impossible to modify your gas locker.