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28/1/2023 at 12:32pm
Location: London
Outfit: Lunar Cosmos 524
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Broke the news to a camping rally group I'm organising, and the lead balloon hitting the deck was tangible! They hadn't been aware, and it got a number of people scuttling around double checking what they used to be sure where they stood, and others with the certainty they had a problem, turns out 15% of our crowd are impacted by this. NOT HAPPY PEOPLE! 
Amazed by the number of people who'd never heard of Flogas as an alternative to Calor (they've now been educated!), and some affected were thinking their only option was the Campingaz 907 cylinder (as recommended alternative by Calor!) which works out at a positively obscene £55/refill (that's £20/Kg!) (RRP) (as opposed to around £5/Kg for a Calor/Flogas larger cylinder) for the barely adequate 2.7Kg of gas it holds, reckon many would need 2 cylinders to cover a longer stay at a whopping £110 (refill x2 at RRP!), AND it's Butane so not really suitable for winter use (would you want to run your heating off a £20/Kg source anyway!)!
Calor are not alone in rationalising their cylinder range, Flowgas are withdrawing the 20mm clip on coupling cylinders, BUT at least they are continuing with the same size/capacity cylinders with a 21mm clip on coupling.
I know a few people with micro caravans and campers, trailer tents too IIRC, where the gas locker is small and can't accommodate say even a 6kg cylinder, you cant just increase the locker size for the convenience of Calor! Pretty sure I've seen in some site rules that 'loose' external gas cylinders are not permitted at all (I do remember the days of gas cylinders being a external fit on the A frame, but they were affixed rather than loose), CAMC 'discourages' such use, CCC prohibits larger than 15Kg, so their options are limited and Flogas may be their only reasonable choice.
Hope sufficient people change to Flogas to keep the market of the smaller cylinders viable for them, and they don't just disappear altogether! Even though I didn't have the constraints of a fixed locker, I've been tent camping with a 5Kg Gaslight cylinder in the car boot and it takes up a hell of a lot more precious space than a 3.9/4.5Kg cylinder!
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29/1/2023 at 1:22pm
Location: London
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I've seen Campingaz 907s in French supermarkets MUCH cheaper than in UK for a number of years now, last year being no exception. What struck me was the huge UK price increase for a 907 over the past year! - from ridiculously expensive to obscenely so! Certainly looks more sensible to get your 907 refills in France if possible, if heading that way - found one today online at Mr. Bricolage for 30Euro/£26, that's HALF the UK price!
I've got several 907 cylinders from way back, and it was one of the options for our gas supply on our French tent camping trip last year, but calculated I'd either need to take/get two full cylinders, or go to the (great) inconvenience of driving out to a supermarket to get a refill for single cylinder part way through our stay to cover our needs, a 5Kg Flogas 'borrowed' from the caravan seemed to fit the bill as a better (and cheaper! - half the price/Kg of even a 'cheap' French 907 refill!) option, so that was the choice.
I can still get a Flogas 10Kg Gaslight refill from my local Costco for around £33, a very good price, that's £3.30/Kg compared with a Campingaz 907 refill even at best discount of around £19/Kg! I don't, neither do most of the people I know, use enough gas (for me, less than 10Kg over past 4 years!) to invest the notable sum in a refillable Safefill or the like, but if size wasn't an issue, changing from a Campingaz 907 to a Safefill would look far more viable even with my minimal usage!
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