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Camping gaz bottles are getting harder to find refills for, and are bloomin expensive for what amounts to just a few litres of gas.

Is refilling practicle, either from cheaper by volume calor bottles or from an lpg selling petrol station
 
You can fill them from calor gas bottles. It works out at £6 per 907 filled. If you google it you’ll find out how. The kit costs £20 or so. Better, and safer, is the forecourt lpg refillable Bottles you can now buy that are identical in size to a 907, handy if your gas locker is 907 shaped.
 
Just DONT overfill the GC cylinder, get a luggage digital hand scales & carefully check the gross weight
fittings here LPG Gas Supplies | LPG Conversion Kits | BES.co.uk

It does take a good while to transfer & once the 16kg Calor has started to deplete after a few refills the pressure in both cylinders will equalise, so you can never empty the Calor cylinder with transfers, use the remainder on the home bbq
 
Old Harry said:
Just DONT overfill the GC cylinder, get a luggage digital hand scales & carefully check the gross weight
fittings here LPG Gas Supplies | LPG Conversion Kits | BES.co.uk

It does take a good while to transfer & once the 16kg Calor has started to deplete after a few refills the pressure in both cylinders will equalise, so you can never empty the Calor cylinder with transfers, use the remainder on the home bbq
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I always get my big calor bottle empty. Means hanging it upside to get the liquid out, but that is what you need to transfer. Electronic scales of sorts are required to ensure that the receipient bottle isn't over filled.
 
I found a local supplier that sells there own 907 size bottled gas. Easy for us since we don’t got far (particularly right now) and a darn sight cheaper than CG, but probably a bit more than a diy job.
 
PabloPicasso said:
Camping gaz bottles are getting harder to find refills for, and are bloomin expensive for what amounts to just a few litres of gas.

Is refilling practicle, either from cheaper by volume calor bottles or from an lpg selling petrol station
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Illegal and dangerous .
 
fredrussell said:
You can fill them from calor gas bottles. It works out at £6 per 907 filled. If you google it you’ll find out how. The kit costs £20 or so. Better, and safer, is the forecourt lpg refillable Bottles you can now buy that are identical in size to a 907, handy if your gas locker is 907 shaped.
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Any info on suppliers of the replacement type pls
 
It is expensive, but at the price Gaz charge for a refill, it’ll pay for itself fairly soon. The biggest benefit is that you have a 907 shaped bottle that’s holding propane, not butane. Propane is a much better year round fuel.
 
I think I would be well into a second season before that refillable bottle broke even for us.

Rather too long a pay back for leisure use.

And that's without having a spare...
 
Old Harry said:
My word, thats very expensive, it must have been spent on superior paint to that GC use
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My reaction was just a tad stronger. I carry three of the beasts on board!

Out of interest, and asking for a friend, would Gaz take an empty bottle back and pay you for it?
 
I'm in Ireland and I don't think any lpg seller will allow filling of any bottles, even the gaslow ones. Loath to spend lots of money on gas bottles.

Calor bottles have a clip on connector. Is this type of connector available to allow decanting of contents? Or am I missing something
 
PabloPicasso said:
I'm in Ireland and I don't think any lpg seller will allow filling of any bottles, even the gaslow ones. Loath to spend lots of money on gas bottles.

Calor bottles have a clip on connector. Is this type of connector available to allow decanting of contents? Or am I missing something
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Socal do a variety , and a full kit if you're planning trips further afield
Gas Cylinder Regulator Adaptors - SoCal
 
In UK it is not actually illegal to refill free standing bottles with Autogas on a forecourt. However, the regulations body for filling stations advise against because staff are not trained to cope with any possible problem. You may find places that turn a blind eye, especially if the bottles are in the back of a van or similar. Filling fitted bottles in a motorhome, e.g. Gaslow, is perfectly OK in most of Europe but not Italy, where it is banned.

Many liveaboards fill 907 bottles with local butane, perfectly safe with proper precautions. Ideally use a scale or balance to avoid over-filling.
 
My question is how do you connect a calor butane bottle. It has a clip on type connector. Is this available somewhere?
 
Everyone is rightly aghast at the price, but how many of you are year round boat users in northern climes? Butane will not boil off well below 10 degrees Celsius, the best point of these gaslow cylinders, for me at least as a year round U.K. boater, is that you can have a propane filled cylinder that fits in your boats 907 shaped Vented gas locker, instead of a calor propane bottle strapped to your pushpit! I do winter sailing, so these make sense to me. That said I also refill my 907 cylinders from calor butane cylinders. If I see one of these Gaslow bottles 2nd hand, I’ll buy it.
By the way, my friend has one. You have to ring around your local forecourts. Shell don’t like them, but our local Morrison’s forecourt will do them.
 
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