I'm all Gassed out.......

Cheers Nudie.

yes, Air-Cond. is all good now ;)

I will see if someone can send over the border some illegal brass fittings!

I just soooo much need to do this now.....LOL!!!

yeah....this fridgie has a few cut...why did you?
i believe you to be right rick...ie being illegal

I only just brought mine.... maybe its not the bayonet style, but is definately quick connect/discontect
Crazie

I wanted to make some adaptors so that i could fill cylinders from automotive gas bottles at about 1/3 the price they charge for the same stuff after taxes are added....

I dont think you want to fill bottles from automotive gas aka LPG. It's not straight propane which is what your camping gas bottles are filled up with. Plus is saving 5 bucks worth having some sort of accident with the stuff? I don't chew through enough gas to worry.

Leroy

Far be it for me to encourage anyone to do anything illegal...I would be banned from the forum... Fact: the LPG you fill your car up with is exactly the same as the LPG that you fill your camping bottles with. My van has 2 bottles and it costs me usually $25 each at a servo to fill them. Filling with auto LPG costs about $10 each. As I use the shower in my van I use a lot of gas and the savings are considerable....Just wait until they completely do away with decanting gas into your own bottle and you have to do the exchange thing...a captive market gas goes up to $40 a 9 kilo bottle....There is no more danger involved than filling a car...

Rick, I use 2 x45 kilo Cylinders at work for my Spitwater Jetfire heater. I am sure these are the very same bottles I used to decant from when I used to work at Mitre 10 at Glenelg. ( LPG ).

I am also thinking of getting hold of a decanting valve.

Cheers

Wolfie

Rick,
LPG is for cars. BBQ gas is propane. Do a serach on propane and you will find a few posts including post#5191 amongst others. If you shop around you ca fill your bottles at Rays Camping stores for like $16 (not sure if youget 20% off during thier sales though) and even the Bunnings near me is also $16. It pays to shop around a little.

Leroy

Leroy,

Isn't LPG simply... Liquified Propane Gas?

LW,
It's actually Liquified Petroleum Gas hence the use in cars.

Leroy

Bugger!!!

I thought I was going to be on a winner........ :(

Thankyou for saving my skin.

Wolfie

Leroy... go here & check it out.. LPG, butane, propane all the same thing.
http://www.gameco.com.au/lpgmsds.htm. Get the MTDS...Now I'm havent found a Bunnings at a lot of places I visit nor have I ever seen a Rays camping store....invariably I run out of gas when it is usually most inconvenient....And despite what you think the Gull servo near me has its auto and decanting bottles filled by the same tanker as does Bunnings at Tuggeranong..very strange.

Shlt!!!

Now I'm REALLY confused....... gonna sell the stove...... sell the bottles.......

i always thought bbq and the stuff for cars were different? and i believe should not be used to power up the each others devices for which they were intended

Theyre supposed to be different, fact is, the truck pulls up winds out the hose andfills both the LPG cylinder for the brmm brmms and then fills the gas refill cylinder for the chopburners. Unless its like the softdrink dispenser at the pub where they press a different button for raspberry, its all the same stuff that were burning, The additional cost of for additional handling costs, like the guy to wander over, undo the little screw, connect up the complex hoses system (training to realise which threads are reverese and which arent), time to wait till the white stuff flow out of the little screw valve, then time to put it all back the way it was, squeeze out a smile and "there ya go mate". Its all relative....if you know the guy its free hahahahaha!

Rick,

If you read that MSDS LPG is described as a butane/propane mix. I think what you find in Aust. is that LPG is a 50/50 mix of the above. There are instances where a truck full of propane only will fill up the bbq gas filling bottle and then fill up the LPG tank for cars. In the good ol days it was best to run your car on straight propane but then the petroleum companies had all this butane waste product they decide to mix in with the propane to make LPG that you buy at the pumps today.

Leroy

The fact is that lpg for cars and domestic use is very different and while it all works pretty much the same the combustion gases they produce are different .

Automotive LPG may be propane or a mixture of propane and butane, while bottled gas used for domestic purposes (such as cooking and heating) consists solely of propane. For safety reasons, automotive LPG cannot be used for domestic purposes.

Breath the later in for long enough and you will sleep very nicely indeed for a long long time .

They don't just put the warnings there for nothin you know .Like mobile phone warnings at petrol stations , it's not the talking with the RF that does it , it's the sparks from the connectors on the battery and internal workings that can possibly cause an ignition source.

Bayonets as far as i know are still legal in Vic (don't know about other states) as long as the appliance ,stove has a chain connected to a solid point and is shorter than the hose length .
Where they are natural gas only stoves can be connected this way to allow for cleaning behind them ,portable heaters cannot be connected this way as they need a permanant flue .

In bottled gas areas caravans etc they can use heaters using the bayonet method as the combustion gases are not harfull as they consist of mainly water vapour .The other produces carbon monoxide .

Thankyou Ray.

If secret agent DISCO - NEKT gets taken out in the field, I will have to use this plan.

Thing is, I may need a fake Victorian Address or secret drop box.

I will be in touch. Your code word will be... RING OF FIRE.

007 Wolf.

actually it would be a lot easier to use Norfolk island... great tax concessions there & they speak english...But the price of their LPG there is horrendous....

Got some new piccies coming soon. Island Lagoon & Flinders, with my little Honda.

Just can't help myself sometimes..........

Cheers

Wolfie

Bunnings at Scoresby charge one price and thats a full fill. Doesn't matter if the battle was filled yesterday and you only made a cup of tea out of it. The camping store on the corner of Ferntree Gully Rd and Clyde St in Ferntree Gully does partial fills and the full fill was marginally cheaper than Bunnings... I like to support the little bloke when I can.

Bill.....
... that gives me a cunning idea!

Rock up at a busy caravan park, bring out a gas bottle & stove, in full view, then pretend to connect them with Nylex Garden Hose. Watch the neighbors vanish, and have a large space to yourself. Bit like clearing the front bar with a curried egg fart.

cheers

Wolfie

RAOFLMAO.........

You've got a mean streak young wolfie.......

Ahh that reminds me of a caravan park i used to have a van at. Alot of people there knew that i both installed and repaired gass appliances both LPG and Nat Gas .
One day one of my mates came up to me and told me of a funny smell at the van next to him .
On further invetigation we found that he had the stove ,hws and the heater hooked up with garden hose and it had been that way for about 10 years so the old bloke reconed , nothin wrong with it mate , he said .
There is no dought that it happens everywhere

Hmmm