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What you are 'missing' is that Calor discontinued them early last year, you can no longer get refills for them, apart from any 'old stock', if such things still exist, in outlets, but they tended to be like hens teeth towards end of circulation when they were still nominally available!
You can still swap them for a standard cylinder/refill.
Those people selling them are being slightly dishonest, as unless full, they have no real legitimate use anymore, generally MUCH cheaper to buy a standard cylinder if you want a cylinder to get refilled and want to avoid the cylinder rental agreement charge!
If you want a lightweight exchangeable cylinder, pretty much only choice now is a FloGas 5 or 10kg Gaslight 'plastic' cylinder (formerly BP gaslight), widely available although slightly more expensive peg Kg of gas than a standard/steel cylinder. Slightly different dimensions to steel cylinders so check it will fit locker space before purchase, and they use 27mm clip on coupling/regulator instead of more usual POL screw fitting.
Calor will BE bringing back a lite cylinder at some POINT.
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Quote: Originally posted by blueexpo97 on 21/3/2024
Calor will BE bringing back a lite cylinder at some POINT.
Calor announced they would soon introduce a new 'lite' cylinder back in 2017/18 to replace the previous ones often to be found faulty on refill QA checks! Here we are 6-7 years on and still no new cylinder, they have even stopped mentioning a upcoming replacement cylinder these days, don't think I'll hold my breath waiting for Calor lightweight cylinders!
Got a couple of FloGas Gaslights these days, so invested in matching couplings and hoses, no great desire to gamble on Calor getting it right this time if they ever do release a new lightweight cylinder!
Let's face it, Calor haven't got much right in past few years, dodgy lite cylinders having to be withdrawn, severe supply problems on popular sizes that went on for near 2 years, and then withdrawing small cylinders from the market, only to reverse decision under customer pressure nearly a year later, but not being in a position to actually honour their customers with easy availability! Not a company that's covered itself in glory or retained my confidence!
I have changed one lite for a standard bottle. The other lite I am keeping about a third full only as a backup. If standard one runs out when away I have a temporary one to fit while getting a refill. Very unlikely I will need to use the lite, as I have 4 standard bottles and weigh before a trip.If considered not enough left in, change to a full one. The part used ones then get used on BBQ until empty.
We just exchanged an empty Calor lite for a full Calor lite at a local bottle gas centre so they are still available in some places. We have a second Calor lite bottle that is nearly empty so we plan to use that up during our next couple of breaks and then get an exchange at the same place. We reckon that with two full bottles, we should get through the next 2 years as we tend to use about a bottle a year, and then we will see what the situation is at that stage.
If noseweight is an issue, consider a safefill. They are much lighter than calor and you can top it up before you go on holiday, staring your trip with a full bottle (reduces or negates the need for a second bottle).
BUT I would only go down that route if you live near (or holiday near) a reliable refill point.
OP ignore the above - I've just seen your thread about safefill
If you do not have a Calor cylinder it means a contract with a big deposit which you will never get back. Simpler to buy a second hand cylinder at a knock down price and simply exchange it.
With reference to your question... 'Are people able to refill them?' the answer is no but there are small minority of people who have worked in the industry that can refill them under licence which there are strict regulations involved and have to be refilled in the appropriate environment for safety reasons which should incorporate independent pressure tests prior to refilling. This is probably the reason as to why there are a small amount of Calor Lite gas cylinders available at present but the refilling procedure wouldn't be the same as being refilled on a mass production scale.
I bought my calor lites cheaply from an auction site when people were trying to get rid of the defective ones, calor exchanged the empty or nearly empty ones that I bought for full ones free of charge.
Quote: Originally posted by tango55 on 22/3/2024
With reference to your question... 'Are people able to refill them?' the answer is no but there are small minority of people who have worked in the industry that can refill them under licence which there are strict regulations involved and have to be refilled in the appropriate environment for safety reasons which should incorporate independent pressure tests prior to refilling. This is probably the reason as to why there are a small amount of Calor Lite gas cylinders available at present but the refilling procedure wouldn't be the same as being refilled on a mass production scale.
not so! the reason your seeing refilled calor bottles is that they are taking them along to the lpg tanks that sell to the likes of safefill users use, they have the required adapters with them and refill the bottles. i have seen this happen when i have gone to fill my safefill bottle! they often have a safefill bottle with them to show the till operator to get them to turn on the pump and then once out of sight they do the calor bottle! highly dangerous!
Why would you fill a Calor bottle when you have a Safefill.
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Quote: Originally posted by blueexpo97 on 22/3/2024
Why would you fill a Calor bottle when you have a Safefill.
because to buy the safefill bottle costs approx £175, but they show that to the attendant and once they arent looking refill the calor instead, so they get one and fill that and then have a second bottle that would no longer be able to be used but they got hold of the adapter to fill it up so they end up with 2 bottles, so if they run out of one then just as beforehand they would just swap them over and then refill if and when they came across a filling station (they arent as prolific as you think, and are actually decreasing in numbers around the country)
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Topic: Calor light bottles
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