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Hi Rex,

Thanks for this thought provoking post.

We're off on our inaugural camping trip on Friday to YCP in York. I have a CampingGaz grill/2 burner and a small gas bottle - it doesn't have anywhere on it that I can hook a cable lock. I haven't bought a camp kitchen yet as I was planning to cook outside the tent and was then going to put cooker plus attached gas bottle in the car boot overnight. In the day I'd leave it inside the tent when we go out for the day.

I'm looking at getting the Outhouse for a toilet /shower tent and was concerned that with a kitchen tent too I'd not be allowed to pitch 3 tents on one pitch. We only have a small tent (Coleman Lakeside 4) so can see all 3 fitting just not sure if campsite owners would allow it/charge extra etc.

Any suggestions/comments would be most gratefully received.

A

i am trying to get hold of steven the hamster but emails keep being returned failed delivery.  Can anyone help??  am interested in an item for sale.

cheers

d

Instead of a cable lock, you can get metal mesh nets for rucksacks called pacsafe.  you could use one of these instead.

www.pacsafe.com

Quote: Originally posted by d ward on 02/8/2007

i am trying to get hold of steven the hamster but emails keep being returned failed delivery. Can anyone help?? am interested in an item for sale.

cheers

d

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Quote: Originally posted by MamaBear on 02/8/2007Rex, you sound excited about your Cabanon kitchen tent. Let me know how it works out for you. What a deal, I had seen it on ebay after you posted it here.

Hi

I guess we need to think about our gas powered fridges too, can't easily put them in the car overnight. I wonder how much they would warm up if you isolated them overnight.

Kitchen tents are an excellent but being lazy I only put mine up if we are staying for a few days. Even if you put the bottle outside the cooker/fridge could leak.

Some tents have a small split just above the SIG which allows you to run cables and gas lines in from outside as a safety feature. Obviously that won't help if my fridge develops a leak. When I bought the fridge the salesman told me that I should replace the gas line and regulator every couple of years, but I haven't and it's never had a service yet I expect it to work after god knows how many miles bumping around in the trailer.

Thanks for the post, it has made me think too. I feel a trip to the camping shop comming on for a new hose and regulator, any excuse is good enough and I bet I'll come out the shop with loads of stuff.

Thanks rexgrant,

Didn't even know LPG alarms existed.

I do put my fridge in the tent extension (without SIG) with the bottle outside when it isn't in the utility tent. But even so, the thought of a leak gives me the shivers.

Just had a quick look at the alarms and most are mains or 12V which is a problem for me.  We never have EHU for the mains ones but I could run an extension from the car to run the 12V variety, or take a battery I guess.

Cheers