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14/8/2004 at 9:19am
 Location: Gloucester
 Outfit: Tent - Royale Avignon 5
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Hello all - I'm a "UK Camp Site" message board virgin, so be gentle with me...

I've recently inherited* a 7kg Handy Gas butane bottle. As one only recently rediscovering the joys of camping after a twenty year sabbatical, I'm by no means sure that this is going to be okay to use with our double burner stove. I'm using a nine-hundred-and-whatever-it-is camping gaz canister at the moment, so I'm well aware that I'll need a different type of regulator if I want to use this bigger bottle. Does anyone see a problem here?  

 

* Inherited = Found abandoned on a skip by Mrs Xadoc.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



14/8/2004 at 9:38am
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Hi Xadoc.

it shouldnt be a problem as long as you buy the correct regulator for it. just take it into any camp shop with you and they should be able to help you with all the enquiries you should have.

nearly forgot my manners then. Welcome to UKCS



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14/8/2004 at 9:50am
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We got one for a couple of quid from the skip yard and changed it for a nice orange butane one at the boat yard.

They did hum and ha a little but in the end I managed to convince them that I needed butane for storage in the unheated garage.



14/8/2004 at 12:13pm
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The other issue to remember is that Calor gas bottles (ie. the blue butane and the red propane) are more readily available to exchange than 'Handy Gas' ones.

I would convert to red propane bottles at the earliest opportunity.

Karl



14/8/2004 at 6:52pm
 Location: Nottingham
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I agree with Karl. Johno.

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14/8/2004 at 7:09pm
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We have recently had to do the same thing!!! While away at bruces we ran out of campinggaz only to find the shop didnt stock any only calor!!!! As we were half way through cooking tea we had to buy a calor bottle from the site (fortunately for us they didnt charge us for the rental only to fill it up)!!!! Big Al (our hero) gave us a regulator for it and all is well!!!!!!! Calor is much more readily available so I think we are gonna stick with that from now on.

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15/8/2004 at 11:50pm
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I would convert to red propane bottles at the earliest opportunity.

Karl




Why do you say convert to propane the Calorific content by volume of Propane is less than that of Butane so although it might be cheaper you need more of it. The only advantage of propane is that it will work in winter when butane won't. You would also need a different regulator for propane (37 m bar female thread).


19/8/2004 at 2:19pm
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Thanks folks - I appreciate the advice.

   Xadoc

 

 

 



19/8/2004 at 5:03pm
 Location: Hemel Hempstead
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I have been camping in winter when the snow is thick on the ground in Austria high in the Alps, in France up in the Pyrenees as well as in the UK, I only use the blue Calor gas bottles and I have never had one stop delivering the gas when required. So how cold does it have to be before Butane stops flowing? Remembering that it is unlikely that the temperature inside the van is unlikely to fall below zero anyway. I appreciate that it could be somewhat colder in a tent but surely while it is occupied there is some provision for heating, so it shouldn'y get that cold, or am I talking a load of nonsense?



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