Daydream believer
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Its the same stuff
I built the Calor gas works bottle refilling plant 40 years ago when i worked for the family firm
they used to fill Calor butane plus a few others such as Gaz all from the same tank
Gaz prices for 907
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Its the same stuff
I built the Calor gas works bottle refilling plant 40 years ago when i worked for the family firm
they used to fill Calor butane plus a few others such as Gaz all from the same tank
Birdseye
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Just bought a new big Calor to refill my 907s. I should get 4 refills plus a bit for the £39 that the Calor cost me so call it £10 per refill.
sailorman
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And with the bottom out of the oil market that £39 is grossly expensive
JumbleDuck
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In those quantities we aren;t paying for gas - we are paying for the delivery and testing infrastructure. The bulk gas cost is more or less irrelevant.
fredrussell
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I'll post this here I think as I've had a fair few requests for the info since offering it earlier in this thread. Should have done it earlier probably!
To fill your own Gaz bottles you need the following parts from BES:
Gaz adaptor - 16643 - only an adaptor will work, normal Gaz regulators do not work for home fill. I've been told recently that BES don't stock these anymore. If so use the adaptor at this link: http://www.gasproducts.co.uk/acatal...K7_DKaEAUkHo7gww50O5hzvKeDWQJAVNvQaArkj8P8HAQ
Calor 27mm clip on adaptor - 17917 - again, calor reg will not work, has to be the BES one.
Hose assembly - 16712
And thats it. Connect the two regs to each other using the hose. Attach the calor reg to big blue bottle and invert bottle. With Gaz reg unattached open its valve until liquid gas emerges. Then close valve and screw into empty gaz bottle. OPen valve and you'll hear the gaz bottle filling. It works a lot better if you put gaz bottle in freezer for an hour first. Using ACCURATE scales keep weighing gaz bottle as it fills. When it gets to 6kg its full (usually 20mins to half hour for me). Technically a full one weighs 6.5kg but after the 6kg mark the filling process goes so slowly that I don't bother. Whatever you do, DO NOT be tempted to fill past 6.5kg. Liquid gas needs space to boil off. And obviously, you do all this OUTSIDE!!! I know thats stating the obvious, but I have to mention it.
To fill your own Gaz bottles you need the following parts from BES:
Gaz adaptor - 16643 - only an adaptor will work, normal Gaz regulators do not work for home fill. I've been told recently that BES don't stock these anymore. If so use the adaptor at this link: http://www.gasproducts.co.uk/acatal...K7_DKaEAUkHo7gww50O5hzvKeDWQJAVNvQaArkj8P8HAQ
Calor 27mm clip on adaptor - 17917 - again, calor reg will not work, has to be the BES one.
Hose assembly - 16712
And thats it. Connect the two regs to each other using the hose. Attach the calor reg to big blue bottle and invert bottle. With Gaz reg unattached open its valve until liquid gas emerges. Then close valve and screw into empty gaz bottle. OPen valve and you'll hear the gaz bottle filling. It works a lot better if you put gaz bottle in freezer for an hour first. Using ACCURATE scales keep weighing gaz bottle as it fills. When it gets to 6kg its full (usually 20mins to half hour for me). Technically a full one weighs 6.5kg but after the 6kg mark the filling process goes so slowly that I don't bother. Whatever you do, DO NOT be tempted to fill past 6.5kg. Liquid gas needs space to boil off. And obviously, you do all this OUTSIDE!!! I know thats stating the obvious, but I have to mention it.
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