Gas bottles gauge

Something like This ??

or This type ?? (take your pick)


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A gas fuse has a gauge on it but hey are not particularly accurate. You can get a stick on transfer that changes colour where the level of the gas is or pour hot water over the side of the bottle and it will frost at the gas level. Michael

Bunnings sell the second variety listed above, for about 30 bucks from memory. I'm guessing most other hardware stores would as well.

The solution I use is a Gas Bottle with a built-in gauge.
All you see is a small plastic gauge showing a scale from full to empty, but the bottle includes an internal float mechanism to operate it.

I have these gauges on both the 9kg bottles I use at home and the 4.5kg bottle I take camping.

If your bottle is in good condition, you can have the float/gauge mechanism retro-fitted. You would need to check who is authorised to do this in your State. In SA it's Maxbuilt Trading Co.

There's the Dometic one.

Yes, quite expensive, but I have one and love it. It was my requested Christmas gift, as my husband always assures me that we have plenty of gas - and is wrong just a little too often.

The gauge and strip are very unreliable and the Dometic one whilst accurate looks costly.All cylinders have a tare weight stamped on them so all you have to do is weigh the cylinder and subtract the tare weight to get the weight of gas inside

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Its really beneficial in tough stitution.

Johno,

The shop item I linked in the top of your post is a weight based system and works very well - much along the lines of the previous reply that mentions weight. This unit weights the bottle and has a scale in indicate the available supply.

David

Maybe I am looking at this a bit simplisticly but wouldn't a set of kitchen scales give a pretty good indication. I mean all the empty and full weights are stamped on the bottle.

Cheers
Pop

We solved that problem and others with the right weight scales.

Jaycar and others make digital airline baggage scales that are small and easy to live with and that display accurate up to 40kg for $19.

An essential part of our remote area tripping kit now.

They work very well with not only gas bottles but for telling how much fuel left is in jerry cans , water, and even work with small gas cannisters as well as fish etc.

The 40kg limit is also real good for weighting tyres / wheels etc.

Ordered a magnetic level indicator from Innovations, I will let you know how it goes when I get it. Like the more expensive devices, it must work on the cool temperature of the LPGas as it evaporates, if there is a heavy draw off, you can usually feel the level with your hand.

Pour some hot water over it then run your hand down the side until you feel the cold section. That is where the gas level is.