Hello all - I'm a "UK Camp Site" message board virgin, so be gentle with me...
I've recently inherited* a 7kg Handy Gas butane bottle. As one only recently rediscovering the joys of camping after a twenty year sabbatical, I'm by no means sure that this is going to be okay to use with our double burner stove. I'm using a nine-hundred-and-whatever-it-is camping gaz canister at the moment, so I'm well aware that I'll need a different type of regulator if I want to use this bigger bottle. Does anyone see a problem here?
* Inherited = Found abandoned on a skip by Mrs Xadoc.
it shouldnt be a problem as long as you buy the correct regulator for it. just take it into any camp shop with you and they should be able to help you with all the enquiries you should have.
The other issue to remember is that Calor gas bottles (ie. the blue butane and the red propane) are more readily available to exchange than 'Handy Gas' ones.
I would convert to red propane bottles at the earliest opportunity.
We have recently had to do the same thing!!! While away at bruces we ran out of campinggaz only to find the shop didnt stock any only calor!!!! As we were half way through cooking tea we had to buy a calor bottle from the site (fortunately for us they didnt charge us for the rental only to fill it up)!!!! Big Al (our hero) gave us a regulator for it and all is well!!!!!!! Calor is much more readily available so I think we are gonna stick with that from now on.
I would convert to red propane bottles at the earliest opportunity.
Karl
Why do you say convert to propane the Calorific content by volume of Propane is less than that of Butane so although it might be cheaper you need more of it. The only advantage of propane is that it will work in winter when butane won't. You would also need a different regulator for propane (37 m bar female thread).
I have been camping in winter when the snow is thick on the ground in Austria high in the Alps, in France up in the Pyrenees as well as in the UK, I only use the blue Calor gas bottles and I have never had one stop delivering the gas when required. So how cold does it have to be before Butane stops flowing? Remembering that it is unlikely that the temperature inside the van is unlikely to fall below zero anyway. I appreciate that it could be somewhat colder in a tent but surely while it is occupied there is some provision for heating, so it shouldn'y get that cold, or am I talking a load of nonsense?
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Topic: Big, blue and butane.
the Calorific content by volume of Propane is less than that of Butane so although it might be cheaper you need more of it. The only advantage of propane is that it will work in winter when butane won't. You would also need a different regulator for propane (37 m bar female thread).
