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[LJay]

You may all laugh and joke but I have to live with the walking gas machine!

  Oh bum!

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yep thats what she must say often

I have thought about having him fitted with a cork but can you imagine the damage that it would do when it was expelled due to high pressure? Scary!

[hercules]

get a 7kg propane,it will last longer and its not massive when you think bout it.better still get a CARAVAN i have two bottles in the front of mine and have sat in a field eating a sunday roast with all the trimmings followed by a nice hot shower then a sit down to watch telly with my feet up
from what ive heard TB and GAYBOY GIXER are buying a van and are gonna make babies in it (if this caravans rockin dont go a knockin)thats after theyve fitted some springs to it

[hercules]

You may all laugh and joke but I have to live with the walking gas machine!

  Oh bum!

 ....... .......

yep thats what she must say often

I have thought about having him fitted with a cork but can you imagine the damage that it would do when it was expelled due to high pressure? Scary!

yer could save a fortune on petrol,you would have your own jet car

[Jimbob]

Just been given 2 calor gas small propane bottles off freegle / freecycle.

I gather you hand these in and swap for whatever size you want.

For me, guess its the small butane bottles, dont need longevity as much as space in the car.

Just need to swap em for full ones now.

Job done, cheers all 

[hercules]

Just been given 2 calor gas small propane bottles off freegle / freecycle.

I gather you hand these in and swap for whatever size you want.

For me, guess its the small butane bottles, dont need longevity as much as space in the car.

Just need to swap em for full ones now.

Job done, cheers all 

calor are a strange company,one minute they will swap any calor bottle for any size and next they will only do like for like unless theres a shortage of bottles or at the outlets discretion

[Kevin Wood]

Butane is fine for summer use, more likely to be available at camp sites and you actually get more heat per kg from butane IIRC. It doesn't work in the cold as the boiling point is much higher than propane. A couple of 4.5 kg calor butane bottles and a regulator to suit will be fine.

Having said that, if you have propane cylinders and can't swap them, they will work just as well, with an appropriate regulator (it's a different fitting on the cylinder).

Camping Gaz is available on the continent but I'm guessing if you did go abroad you'd be unlikely to need a refill unless it's a long holiday anyway, and camping Gaz is much more expensive. I find camping gaz bottles more convenient to pack, though.

[TheBoy]

For Jimbob's needs, the 4.5kg should be enough. Mine will run my fridge and the cooker for a few trips.  Can't remember the last time I changed it, gotta be 3 or 4 years back - not been camping much recently, except OOF meets (although the cooker gets well used at those!)