Switching between Camping Gaz and standard UK butane cylinders

On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 18:09:23 GMT,it is alleged that Lobster spake thusly in uk.d-i-y:

It may be worth contacting a calor gas supplier. I recall on the campsite I used to stay on ~15 years ago, there was available an adaptor from the calor style 'switch on' butane tanks to the camping gaz style screw in. It consisted of the switch on thingy with a right angle connector to a camping gaz female thread. Not sure if they'd still be available though.

Why not just have the 2 regulators, and swap them into the same pipe using a screwable/adjustable jubilee clip - only takes a few mins to unscrew/screw on a new conector ?

I'd have thought a 2 in/1 out arrangement 'could' be a gas leak situation.

Graham

No that's what I meant by being a hassle and not very safe... those hoses are usually very stiff to fit, and jubilee clips are not intended for repeated fitting/refitting... OK, it's maybe do-able, but not the quick and easy solution which I'm sure must exist.

That's not what I meant - I envisage 1 hose going to the cooker, terminating in a female bayonet connector, and two hoses going to two regulators, each terminating in a male connector.

David

In article , Lobster writes

How about a couple of these:

ps: what happened to the BES catalogue from your uk.d-i-y welcome pack ;-)

Now *that* looks like just the job!!

Forgive my ignorance, but the listing states in bold "for LPG only" - is that the same as butane (ie just as distinct from natural gas)?

Thanks David

I knew they did a lot of gas stuff so had a look. Their web site is a bit of a nightmare to browse so I use the paper catalogue, a great reference for gas, plumbing and drainage stuff, and their prices aren't bad either.

Yup, that's the generic term for bottled fuel gasses, short for Liquefied Petroleum Gas.

| In article , Lobster | writes | >fred wrote: | >> In article , Lobster | >> writes | >

| >>>Does anyone know of any form of fitting which I could get, which I could | >>>attach to 2 lengths of hose each connected to a regulator (with a third | >>>length of hose attached to the cooker), so I could just interchange the | >>>regulators at will? I'm envisaging an in-line bayonet fitting or similar. | >

| >> How about a couple of these:

| >Now *that* looks like just the job!! | | I knew they did a lot of gas stuff so had a look. Their web site is a bit of a | nightmare to browse so I use the paper catalogue, a great reference for | gas, plumbing and drainage stuff, and their prices aren't bad either. | | >Forgive my ignorance, but the listing states in bold "for LPG only" - is | >that the same as butane (ie just as distinct from natural gas)? | | Yup, that's the generic term for bottled fuel gasses, short for Liquefied | Petroleum Gas.

In the UK Propane or Butane.

Butane gives about 15% more cups of tea per bottle. Butane gives about 5% more cups of tea per GBP. Propane works in winter near freezing point. All UK Propane bottles have the same fitting. Autogas is cheap, you need a built in tank, tax *WILL* increase.