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Hi,

is there a way of telling how much gas is left in the bottle?

Thanks

There are a few ways, you weigh it and subtract the weight of the bottle or shake it gently and see what is left sloshing around inside. I believe that the little magnetic label thingy that you can buy isn't very good. If its propane (red bottle usually) change to Calor Lite as it has a gauge built in. Buy a proper external gauge.

Dave

Hey Dave!

Our gauge works!

Cheeky!

..I should hang on to it then!..as it must be the only one that does..

..and on the whole,gauges don't work(worth doing a search,as there have been  a few threads on this).

 Weighing the cylinder is the only real accurate method(..a bit of a pain,I know).

I've only recently found that the empty weights are on the cylinders

(..on our propane,it's on the metal disc around the top fitting,marked in lbs & oz!)

This pdf contains a table of full & empty weights:

http://www.calor.co.uk/documents/13/original/manual-handling-of-cylinders.pdf

Mine has the empty weight on the bottle too, but all my household scales won't weigh the bottle to be able to work it out!!

Quote: Originally posted by Icehockey44 on 04/8/2010

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Mine has the empty weight on the bottle too, but all my household scales won't weigh the bottle to be able to work it out!!

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