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in h said:
I used to have job doing it every weekend. It isn't necessarily dangerous. After all Calor do it all day, every day. Of course we took lots of precautions and were sure never to overfill.
Didn't do it for long: it wasn't a job anyone of us enjoyed. There were many other jobs that were more pleasant
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The gas valve arrangements aren’t designed to be operated upside down for starters ask calor or flogas. Many folk have little knowledge of anything to do with lpg so dangerous advocating the practice.

As I mentioned well aware it can and is done especially in places like Morocco. Rather than faff about if people want cheap gas far better going the refillable bottle route
 
I can assure you that people who have done this for a living do know more about it than you do. Much more, judging by your comments.
Calor don't invert cylinders to fill from them. It's a specialist thing normally only done by hire companies.
 
in h said:
I can assure you that people who have done this for a living do know more about it than you do. Much more, judging by your comments.
Calor don't invert cylinders to fill from them. It's a specialist thing normally only done by hire companies.
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How rude ,learn to read, the diy ers invert bottles generally,and the valves are not designed to do that ask calor or flogas is that easier for you to understand ?

And for the record a qualified lpg leisure accommodation accredited gas engineer so just perhaps I know more than you think.
 
I think the whole point is, despite the fact in can be done. IT SHOULD NOT BE DONE. This is the danger nowadays. "I saw it on utube, he must be an expert. So I am now too" With many trades, it's not about how to do it. It's how to cope when it goes wrong. Propane is potentially the most explosive substance you can buy legally. I took a 2 day safety course by BOC and the dangers of propane were heavily covered. Finally showing a film clip of a Ford transit van being exploded. The mix of air and propane has to be correct for the best effects! Not much left of the transit, only the axels really. Like many fuel containers they are safer full than empty as combustion requires air.

Mind you, I think you can still buy propane pumps for filling Boats!
 
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Yes, I knew about your expired qualifications. But the fact remains that filling from one bottle to another was a job I did every weekend for some time (I forget how long). At a guess, we topped up about 250 bottles each weekend (there were two teams doing it at busy times). I never saw any safety inspections, but the rules were definitely adhered to: the company was very safety conscious.
There are risks, primarily overfilling and lifting injuries.
It is not something I would recommend anyone to do (or do myself). However that doesn't justify a bombastic response that it is too dangerous to ever be done at all.
 
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