Refillable LPG Bottles,worth the risk?

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Did that. There is no contract just an agreement which is neither dated nor is it signed and which is a world away from a contract :rolleyes2:
 
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I remember having to sign and date an agreement to bide by the terms and conditions set by Calor when I rented my cylinder.
 
midnight said:
And has anyone had sight of this so called contract or even signed it. No doubt the answer will be NO. As this refers to calorgas then how about flowgas or Energas? What if some one gave you an empty bottle or if you found one. Where is this contract. When you buy a new bottle of gas you are made to pay a deposit for the bottle. Has anyone tried to reclaim this deposit back when they have retuned the bottle? how easy was it to get your deposit refunded. Did you still have the receipt even after five years.:wave:
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Energas require a deposit on a 6 Kg bottle. Any other size are issued FOC. There is no contract.
 
I don't care if it is illegal or legal, I have no doubt 80% of our members are intelligent enough to fill a bottle to 80% of its capacity, it is the other 20% I worry about
 
Why even risk it? We spend tens of thousands of pounds on motorhomes and God knows how much maintaining them and going off all over Europe in them and the likes of Gaslow have created a superb and safe product which isnt even expensive, saves you money, is so convenient and wont kill you. Why dick around with cheap adaptors off ebay? Bonkers.

As Admin also rightly points out your not only putting people at risk but also invoking blanket bans which will include people who have invested in the proper system.
 
useage

For people like me,
7.5 kg £27.50 bottals
Upgraded from 907 £25 to a 4.5kg £20Ive used two 7.5kg and one 4.5kg in the last year.
No not cheap,
it will do 4 weekends fridge cooking heating about £2.00 per day but transferable.
 
D.I.Y IS GOOD, But not for this

Ive paid for the blue, and will again soon.

Cost is not king. SAFTEY IS.
 
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Oh dear, I'm surprised they allow us to fill up our cars with petrol.
Or does profit come before safety, and therefore it's legal???

Get real, if you can fill your petrol tank safely you can certainly fill an LPG tank safely.
 
The reality is that a group of people have worked their way through the education system and, after years of training and experience in their field of expertise, have recognised the dangers involved with lpg and made their findings known in the form of warning messages.
For anyone to ignore those messages, because some mate says you can get an adaptor cheap off ebay, is putting the lives and well being of other people at risk.

I know from my experience in the engineering industry that you’ll always get people who know better than the experts with their safety warnings; you can usually recognise these people by their missing finger or crushed foot, but ‘no bugger’s gonna tell them what to do’.

To sum up - if you want to play with lpg, do it on your own in the middle of a field, not on a garage forecourt where the next car may contain my grandkids.
 
The usual scaremongering comments from those with no understanding or experience. I say no more.
 
Is it not the case that the space shuttle Challenger was built and flown by experts. Go figure that one out.

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tezza33 said:
I don't care if it is illegal or legal, I have no doubt 80% of our members are intelligent enough to fill a bottle to 80% of its capacity, it is the other 20% I worry about
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Exactly,it was the first time I had witnessed an exchange cylinder being refilled at a LPG pump the other day and my friend Brian made it look very easy.The adaptor he used had all the recommended filling levels for the various size propane bottles.(he put 10 litres in a 6kg calor lite)It worked well,he looked competent and all was fine.
It's the people that may be having a stressful day with their mind on other things that could make a mistake,overfill the bottle and not leave room for expansion.I'm sure we have all been there and made silly mistakes in the past,the problem with LPG is that it may be your last.I think I'm going to stick with the local exchange cylinders.
 
wakk44 said:
I think I'm going to stick with the local exchange cylinders.
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I agree but we've just toured through France and Spain and you can't exchange cylinders easily.

We noticed so many different brands as we moved through France and we certainly couldn't have exchanged any French ones in Spain.

You've got to go down the refillable route ...
 
swiftcamper said:
From the information I can find it's a grey area as to whether the so called legal systems are legal.
My understanding is that only a permantly fixed tank/cylinder.
There is a lot of scaremongering from the different companies with a vested interest in selling either refillable cylinders or bottled gas.
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And that pretty much sums it up.
 
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