I am junking out a barn prior to demolition, I have come across a fullish calor bottle about the 19kg size but it has the old female bastard thread. Are these things likely to be collected by museums? Any views as to how to make use of the propane? It's a dull gray/khaki.
AJH
At one time it was possible to buy converters, not sure about nowadays, how about asking at an *long established* caravan dealer / repairer ?
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If it is grey I think you will find that that Propane might be Butane. :-)
The blue colour for butane containers is relatively recent but I am not old enough to remember Calor Gas with female threads. Grey and male lefthand threads were around on the standard size bottles in the 50s through to at least the 70s and the lh thread is still in use on the small (12lb empty) containers.
Male or female ? If it's a female thread on the bottle, then that's still in common service.
If it's a male thread on the bottle (sounds right for a khaki boittle) then it's still useful. Many (if not most) older appliances in service can use them. The quick-connect fitting on the hose has this thread on the other end of it because it was supplied as a converter. Just unscrew the quick-connect and put the hose directly onto the bottle. There's a rubber seal washer in there too - don't lose it.
No, not by Calor either. I tried to get one refilled a while back, because I have a useful camping-stove-style burner that needs them. They were _very_ sniffy about it. So it's in my pile of empties now and will probably turn into a woodstove, or a teapot or something.
That's butane.
Slightly OT but the curious thing with LPG bottles is that dealers wont accept or trade other peoples bottles hence the reason why they get abandoned left right and centre,on wasteland and tips. Seems like they should stndardise and have a mutual agreement.. Remove antispam and add 670 after bra to email
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Now I'll have to go back and look, IIRC it is a captive bastard female nut, this would pull the regulator onto a flat flange.
Yes I see Roger pointed this out, unfortunately I only have modern propane fittings.
AJH
Seems reasonable as they remain the property of the original firm and should only be filled by them.
Wrong cause for the effect, the abandoned ones are those that have been stolen from work sites whilst full and then dumped when empty, the thieves don't have a policy for refilling.
AJH
I've never had any trouble. We have bottled propane for the hob and when we needed to buy some when we first moved in, I called round and ordered the cheapest. He also took away the 3 empty bottles the previous owner had accumulated.
A local dealer almost refused to sell me a new bottle for a new camping stove and insisted I should go down the tip and buy one for a fiver which he would then take in and sell me a "refill". He took some persuading as to the urgency of my need.
MBQ
Not as bad as it was. Seems there have been a lot of mergers in the LPG trade of late. Now the cylinders are "Calor", "The Other Lot" and very few that fall in between. So long as you match Calor & non-Calor, they seem much more helpful than they used to be.
Friend of mine recently cleared a gypsy traveller site and picked up two vanloads of cylinders. He shifted all except a handful of khaki ones.
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Not necessarily. Calor policy is you only get your deposit back if you can produce the original receipt. Hence it makes sense not to let Calor have their bottles back at all if you can't.
That's the one
I see, I have always been able to find empty cylinders from someone and so have never needed to pay a deposit, just the refill. I imagine this is the reason they just hung on to them.
Our local civic amenities site (aka tip) has a cage for them, I wonder if they give them back or sell them as scrap iron?
AJH
Flow gas? Flog as?
Ours sells them - £2.50 a cylinder; your pick of size and some of them are still half-full
You're right Andy, it's a male thread, now I'll have to find a butane appliance to see if the quick fit converter is on it.
AJH
That's their name; "Flogas" - I assume it's "flow gas".
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