Flogas seem to have made significant inroads into Calors market around our area and their outlets also generally sell the lightweight gaslights too. Guess it’s still Calor on local sites though.
Count your blessings you don’t have to use Campingaz. £48 for refilled exchange bottle that only holds 2.75kg.
Looking on the Facebook Alicanto group. Some even get 2 x 10kg Gaslights in. I would only want 1, with a 6kg as a reserve. But they have had to alter the floor bracket and upgrade the strap. Not too important for me as the van is going nowhere.
I fit a 10kg and 5kg gas-lite (Flowgas) in the side locker on my Unicorn S3 Vigo. If the locker is the same size - you are good.
You can of course use a Safefill or its competitors, eg Gaslow as a patio LPG bottle, just use the right adaptor and regulator to suit the appliance being fed from it.
I just exchange my Calor patio gas cylinder for a full one. Can’t recall the price but as it’s only used for the Cadac BBQ at home it’s not worth shopping around to save a few bob as I just buy at a local camping outlet. Most of our BBQs this year have been on the charcoal fired Weber kettle that I treated myself to early in the summer.
My experience is that it is hugely beneficial price wise to exchange bottles at builders merchants rather than leisure retail outlets. Not only is their asking price better, some will sign you up for a "trade" discount , for the asking, making it even cheaper.
On the Weber it invalidates the warranty although I am not sure how they would prove a different gas was used. I used the incorrect term refillable as should have said exchanged i.e. Homebase or Flogas cylinder which may be cheaper than Calorgas.
Obviously we sue our new Weber BBQ quite a lot and will continue to do so over the winter months which is one of the reasons why we switched from our Weber charcoal BBQ to the gas. We have the Weber 47" and also the smaller Smoky Joe. We can take the Smoky Joe with us when renting cottages, but the 47" will become redundant.
In my experience Campingaz was cheaper in France but we “ managed” with taking two 6kg propane. One for the caravan, the other for a gas bbq.
Nor am I as they simply could not, its all the same Propane and even if you ran it on Butane I don't think in a month of Sundays they would, nor probably could make that an issue.
By coincidence we have a Smokey Joe and it goes on trips with us. Great piece of kit.
Many years ago a friend, who was a gas safe engineer and trainer, had the idea of making his own refill kit. It involved a fridge compressor. It never came about. And as he died 20 years ago, no chance now.
That’s brilliant. Who is your local gas supplier? (Hoping that they are also my local gas supplier 😀)
All the details of the cylinders empty weight are on it, add 6 kgs then weigh it to see the total weight. Note Calor website gives details of the weight range of empty cylinders, so to be accurate you need to look at your own cylinder.
As I have, weigh it and deduct its quoted Tare weight.
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