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6kg gas bottle

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kbrad

Does this mean there is 6kg of gas in the bottle,just weighed a recently new bottle and it weighs in at 13kg
 
kbrad said:
Does this mean there is 6kg of gas in the bottle,just weighed a recently new bottle and it weighs in at 13kg
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Yes it’s the weight of gas. Apart from Calorlite bottles the ordinary Calor 6kg gas bottles do have a variation in bottle weight of the empty bottle. So don’t expect it to be 13kg every time. The tare weights vary. Calors website gives the lower snd higher tare weight.
 
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The tare weight (cylinder empty) is on an aluminium collar around the valve and usually shown in pounds and ounces. On FloGas cylinders the tare weight in kg is printed on the cylinder case just as the top curve becomes the sidewall.
 
The bottles empty weight is give the name "Tare".
Calor mark this weight by punching figures into an aluminium disk, a collar trapped between the bottle and its valve assembly that is screwed into the bottle.
In Calor's case they, for reasons that escape me completely, give in in imperial pounds and ounces????
Some more enlightened other LPG vendors stamp the "Tare" weight, quoted in kgs, of the bottle, into the steel ring welded on the bottom to create a base.

Edit: and as quoted in #4, Flo-gas, with its steel bottles and some of its satellites simply stencil paint the bottle's Tare, in kgs, on the shoulder of the bottle; IMO nice and convenient, easily seen and not requiring conversion from an imperial value.
Flo-gas with their Plastic composite bottles, "Gaslights" have in moulded into the top edge of the plastic, valve protection collar
 
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JTQ said:
The bottles empty weight is give the name "Tare".
Calor mark this weight by punching figures into an aluminium disk, a collar trapped between the bottle and its valve assembly that is screwed into the bottle.
In Calor's case they, for reasons that escape me completely, give in in imperial pounds and ounces????
Some more enlightened other LPG vendors stamp the "Tare" weight, quoted in kgs, of the bottle, into the steel ring welded on the bottom to create a base.

Edit: and as quoted in #4, Flo-gas, with its steel bottles and some of its satellites simply stencil paint the bottle's Tare, in kgs, on the shoulder of the bottle; IMO nice and convenient, easily seen and not requiring conversion from an imperial value.
Flo-gas with their Plastic composite bottles, "Gaslights" have in moulded into the top edge of the plastic, valve protection collar
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I've noticed that Calorlite cylinders have the tare/empty weight in kgs stamped on the bottom rim - around 4.5 kg but all a little different.
 
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