Our new* camper arrived with one cylinder, but space for two.

Plenty of people will sell the gas, but not the cylinder it seems..if I
want to make it two cylinders, so as not to actually run out, where do I
buy one?

* to us anyway. :-)

"The Natural Philosopher" wrote in message
...
Our new* camper arrived with one cylinder, but space for two.

Plenty of people will sell the gas, but not the cylinder it seems..if I
want to make it two cylinders, so as not to actually run out, where do I
buy one?


www.ebay.co.uk

On Sep 25, 1:47 pm, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
Our new* camper arrived with one cylinder, but space for two.

Plenty of people will sell the gas, but not the cylinder it seems..if I
want to make it two cylinders, so as not to actually run out, where do I
buy one?

* to us anyway. :-)

Many people (but not usually garages) will supply it but you have to
pay a deposit. However, getting the deposit back again on a empty
cylinder is not easy so people do sell them empty.

try uk.rec.waterways

Robert

"The Natural Philosopher" wrote in message
...
Our new* camper arrived with one cylinder, but space for two.

Plenty of people will sell the gas, but not the cylinder it seems..if I
want to make it two cylinders, so as not to actually run out, where do I
buy one?

* to us anyway. :-)

"liberate" one from the local tip when it's raining and the staff are
indoors.


--
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(anti-spam is as easy as 1-2-3 - not)

"The Natural Philosopher" wrote in message
...
Our new* camper arrived with one cylinder, but space for two.

Plenty of people will sell the gas, but not the cylinder it
seems..if I
want to make it two cylinders, so as not to actually run out, where
do I
buy one?

* to us anyway. :-)

What make / style is it? Recently I couldn't give away some cylinders
I had kicking around.

AWEM

"The Natural Philosopher" wrote in message
...
Our new* camper arrived with one cylinder, but space for two.

Plenty of people will sell the gas, but not the cylinder it seems..if I
want to make it two cylinders, so as not to actually run out, where do I
buy one?

* to us anyway. :-)

£20 will get you one full bottle at a local filling station,this will give
you the bottle.

"The Natural Philosopher" wrote in message
...
Our new* camper arrived with one cylinder, but space for two.

Plenty of people will sell the gas, but not the cylinder it seems..if I
want to make it two cylinders, so as not to actually run out, where do I
buy one?

* to us anyway. :-)

I have noticed that the bottled gas goes up down in summer and up in winter.
So take this into consideration.
When I used to have a butane heater it cost £12 in winter and £9.50 in
summer.

Robbing bleeders

Andrew Mawson wrote:
"The Natural Philosopher" wrote in message
...
Our new* camper arrived with one cylinder, but space for two.

Plenty of people will sell the gas, but not the cylinder it
seems..if I
want to make it two cylinders, so as not to actually run out, where
do I
buy one?

* to us anyway. :-)

What make / style is it? Recently I couldn't give away some cylinders
I had kicking around.


i don't know really. 5kg calor propane? red cylinder anyway. Tap and
reverse thread for pipe/regualtor.


AWEM

George wrote:
"The Natural Philosopher" wrote in message
...
Our new* camper arrived with one cylinder, but space for two.

Plenty of people will sell the gas, but not the cylinder it seems..if I
want to make it two cylinders, so as not to actually run out, where do I
buy one?

* to us anyway. :-)

£20 will get you one full bottle at a local filling station,this will give
you the bottle.


well not e ones i tried. exchange only.

"The Natural Philosopher" wrote in message
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George wrote:
"The Natural Philosopher" wrote in message
...
Our new* camper arrived with one cylinder, but space for two.

Plenty of people will sell the gas, but not the cylinder it seems..if I
want to make it two cylinders, so as not to actually run out, where do
I
buy one?

* to us anyway. :-)

£20 will get you one full bottle at a local filling station,this will
give
you the bottle.


well not e ones i tried. exchange only.

Ah well different localities.
I go to a yard on the dock area by me and he sells gas...£10 if you bring in
a bottle and £20 if you dont have a bottle £10 is the deposit on the bottle.
Calor gas themselves wont do this and you have to have their bottles only,or
thats what the blokey in calor gas said?

Put an ad in freecycle for one, someones bound to have one. :-)

On Sep 25, 2:23 pm, "George" wrote:
"The Natural Philosopher" wrote in .. .

Our new* camper arrived with one cylinder, but space for two.

Plenty of people will sell the gas, but not the cylinder it seems..if I
want to make it two cylinders, so as not to actually run out, where do I
buy one?

* to us anyway. :-)

I have noticed that the bottled gas goes up down in summer and up in winter.
So take this into consideration.
When I used to have a butane heater it cost £12 in winter and £9.50 in
summer.

Robbing bleeders

Maybe you got a real bargain in summer.

MBQ

"The Natural Philosopher" wrote in message
...
Andrew Mawson wrote:
"The Natural Philosopher" wrote in message
...
Our new* camper arrived with one cylinder, but space for two.

Plenty of people will sell the gas, but not the cylinder it
seems..if I
want to make it two cylinders, so as not to actually run out,
where
do I
buy one?

* to us anyway. :-)

What make / style is it? Recently I couldn't give away some
cylinders
I had kicking around.


i don't know really. 5kg calor propane? red cylinder anyway. Tap and
reverse thread for pipe/regualtor.


AWEM



Shame - their was one of those in the batch - eventually had to take
them to the tip and persuade them to take them

AWEM

On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:32:49 +0100, The Natural Philosopher
wrote:

well not e ones i tried. exchange only.

I went to my local Calor Gas outlet (next to Mortimer station,
Berkshire) and they quite happily sold me a new cylinder.

The Natural Philosopher wrote:

Our new* camper arrived with one cylinder, but space for two.

Plenty of people will sell the gas, but not the cylinder it seems..if I
want to make it two cylinders, so as not to actually run out, where do I
buy one?

Any Calor centre will provide the cylinder, or rather a cylinder filled
with gas without having to pay a deposit. The local garage demanded £30
deposit for a 15Kg cylinder and in the end, being in a hurry and a long
way from a Calor centre, I "bought" one from the local dodgy bloke for
£5 and then went to the garage and swapped it and 18 drinking tokens for
a full one.

The Natural Philosopher wrote:
Our new* camper arrived with one cylinder, but space for two.

Plenty of people will sell the gas, but not the cylinder it seems..if I
want to make it two cylinders, so as not to actually run out, where do I
buy one?

Further to other replies...

Will you be taking said camper overseas? Because if so, and if for peace
of mind you want to retain the facility of being able to buy more gas
over the channel, then realistically you have to have the dreaded
Camping Gaz. So you might want to give consideration to your 'spare'
cylinder being a Camping Gaz one (not that you'd want to use it
routinely as it costs an arm and a leg.)

We have at home one large cylinder of Calor gas, with a regulator plus 2
adaptor hoses to fit both our home-based barbeque and the little gas
stove which we take camping. We also have a smaller Camping Gaz
cylinder, also with the dual regulator/adaptor setup, which serves as a
back-up both at home and when away camping. System works well!

David

George wrote:
"The Natural Philosopher" wrote in message
...
Our new* camper arrived with one cylinder, but space for two.

Plenty of people will sell the gas, but not the cylinder it
seems..if I want to make it two cylinders, so as not to actually run
out, where do I buy one?

* to us anyway. :-)

I have noticed that the bottled gas goes up down in summer and up in
winter. So take this into consideration.
When I used to have a butane heater it cost £12 in winter and £9.50 in
summer.

Robbing bleeders

Talking of B&Q......................

Don't buy gas there - rip off merchants.


--
Dave
The Medway Handyman
www.medwayhandyman.co.uk
01634 717930
07850 597257

In message , The Natural
Philosopher writes
Our new* camper arrived with one cylinder, but space for two.

Plenty of people will sell the gas, but not the cylinder it seems..if I
want to make it two cylinders, so as not to actually run out, where do
I buy one?

You pay a deposit on the second cylinder rather than buy one. PLenty of
places sell it, just look up calor gas, flo gas or whatever flavour you
have in yellow pages


--
geoff

Lobster wrote:
The Natural Philosopher wrote:
Our new* camper arrived with one cylinder, but space for two.

Plenty of people will sell the gas, but not the cylinder it seems..if
I want to make it two cylinders, so as not to actually run out, where
do I buy one?

Further to other replies...

Will you be taking said camper overseas? Because if so, and if for peace
of mind you want to retain the facility of being able to buy more gas
over the channel, then realistically you have to have the dreaded
Camping Gaz. So you might want to give consideration to your 'spare'
cylinder being a Camping Gaz one (not that you'd want to use it
routinely as it costs an arm and a leg.)


Funnily enough I was researching this and came to a aimliar conclusin.
But that is necxt year.

The general feeling seems to be that a gas cylinder should last a whole
summer actually, and two would get us to greece and back OK. especally
if hooking up the fridge to the mains.



We have at home one large cylinder of Calor gas, with a regulator plus 2
adaptor hoses to fit both our home-based barbeque and the little gas
stove which we take camping. We also have a smaller Camping Gaz
cylinder, also with the dual regulator/adaptor setup, which serves as a
back-up both at home and when away camping. System works well!

Yes. I will look into that.

Serendipitously a fried phoned up after some flexible flue liner and he
actually has a spare cylinder we think..so a swap is in order.


David

On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 13:47:09 +0100, The Natural Philosopher
wrote:

Plenty of people will sell the gas, but not the cylinder it seems.

Plenty will "sell" the cylinder, although Calor claim that no cylinders
are, or can ever be, sold (merely rented).

If you need one, the refillers will usually arrange the supply of one
for a sizable deposit. If you try about half of the local tips round
here, they'll happily supply you with one for a paltry sum (£2.50 + VAT,
any size). Pick the right one and you get half a tank of gas free.

The Natural Philosopher wrote in
:

Serendipitously a fried phoned up after some flexible flue liner
and he actually has a spare cylinder we think..so a swap is in
order.

Coincidentally I have done the same-ish thing this week, but for a
gas barbecue bought as an end-of-season bargain.

The price for a 13kg cylinder of propane at the local Calor dealer (a
trade tool hire place) is £18 exchange, or a further £30 for a
deposit if no empty to exchange.

That seemed a bit steep, so I tried the local council tip - but it's
been privatised, and they were clearly being 'watched' and under
orders not to flog stuff off...

So I went to the local scrap dealer, where the price of a pint saw me
drive away with an empty. And then back for an full exchange
cylinder...

Any size / type (ie butane / propane / 'patio gas') of cylinder will
do - the deposit is the same. Just make sure you get a Calor one.
Why? Because dealers only exchange their 'own' cylinders and not
those of rivals, and Calor is the leading brand, sold everywhere (?)
in the UK.

As others have said, if you're planning to travel in Europe, a
Camping Gaz cylinder would be useful. Be aware that the regulator is
different again (as indeed it is between butane / propane / 'patio
gas').

A quick Google will find all sorts of useful gadgets such as auto
changeover valves, info on different regulator types etc. And once
you know what you want, eBay has lots of bargains...

Hope this helps

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The Natural Philosopher wrote:

well not e ones i tried. exchange only.

Our local lawn mower and farm tool supplier seems to flog them with no
deposit... Bought a large 47kg one a few months back - can't remember
the price but it was not particularly large (£50 ish perhaps). A number
of garden centres also seem to do them.

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Richard Perkin wrote:
The Natural Philosopher wrote in
:

Serendipitously a fried phoned up after some flexible flue liner
and he actually has a spare cylinder we think..so a swap is in
order.

Coincidentally I have done the same-ish thing this week, but for a
gas barbecue bought as an end-of-season bargain.

The price for a 13kg cylinder of propane at the local Calor dealer (a
trade tool hire place) is £18 exchange, or a further £30 for a
deposit if no empty to exchange.

That seemed a bit steep, so I tried the local council tip - but it's
been privatised, and they were clearly being 'watched' and under
orders not to flog stuff off...

So I went to the local scrap dealer, where the price of a pint saw me
drive away with an empty. And then back for an full exchange
cylinder...

Any size / type (ie butane / propane / 'patio gas') of cylinder will
do - the deposit is the same. Just make sure you get a Calor one.
Why? Because dealers only exchange their 'own' cylinders and not
those of rivals, and Calor is the leading brand, sold everywhere (?)
in the UK.

As others have said, if you're planning to travel in Europe, a
Camping Gaz cylinder would be useful. Be aware that the regulator is
different again (as indeed it is between butane / propane / 'patio
gas').

A quick Google will find all sorts of useful gadgets such as auto
changeover valves, info on different regulator types etc. And once
you know what you want, eBay has lots of bargains...

Hope this helps


Immensely.

Once I googled may way aroud a bit, I discovered what you say is
incredibly true.

Calor is the brand to go for.
No one will pay you for empty cylinders at all. Calor will donate a
fiver to charity for unwanted cylinders. And yet they want 10-20 quid
for an empty they supply.

he disjunct betwen pepel who want cylinders and people who have 50 lying
around in the shed, seems huge!

Andy Dingley wrote:
On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 13:47:09 +0100, The Natural Philosopher
wrote:

Plenty of people will sell the gas, but not the cylinder it seems.

Plenty will "sell" the cylinder, although Calor claim that no
cylinders are, or can ever be, sold (merely rented).

If you need one, the refillers will usually arrange the supply of one
for a sizable deposit. If you try about half of the local tips round
here, they'll happily supply you with one for a paltry sum (£2.50 +
VAT, any size). Pick the right one and you get half a tank of gas
free.

That's the heavy one with no lumps of mortar stuck to the base or sides!