Gas bottle storage

G/day Roachie I noticed on your reply that you mentioned that you often carry your gas bottle in a milk crate.
This being plastic can generate static electricity,I too used a milk crate but being made aware of this issue I figure that my good luck is used up & now just tie my bottle to the roof rack with no plastic crate.

I queeried the static elec thingy with my local Supa Gas guy as I always carry my 9kg in a black plastic crate and had heard the same rumour. He says if being encapsulated in plastic can generates dangerous static electricity, why do most of the gas retailers/wholesalers supply & recommend their gas bottles remain in the plastic expanded mesh. I guess the static is only dangerous if the bottle is leaking, by handling the bottle and crate when setting up camp, you should have discharged all of the static before you are even ready to open the valve.

Bilbo,
The only incidents I've ever seen on the tele' news etc are ones where some poor mongrel has just filled up a 9kg and is carrying it inside the car to get home.......BANG (spark from an interior light etc).

You're dead right...........I've never heard of anybody being killed or injured from a small domestic gas cylinder exploding after a bingle.

Sorry to say that common sense ain't so bloody common anymore!!!!! ;-((

Exactly.

I've worked with LGP for 35 years and carrying one INISIDE a car or other unventilated enclosure is potentially deadly. You can throw a gas bottle up in the air and watch it bounce and it won't split. But a leaking one INSIDE a vehicle - well............"Goodnight Nurse".

Bilbo

Gas bottle exploding after a bingle hey.. well I gues I know wher eI would like it to be if it is going to explode.. much prefer exploding gas cylcender on my roof trather than one in the confines of the cabin.. think about.. even a leaking gas bottle isn't going to explode on the roof unless it's in your garage... say it's leaking.. and said static from said milk crate casues small spark.. leaking gas at say 60km's an hr is barley going to be dense enough to light let alon explode... standing still and it's leaking.. sure maybe a low risk but thats why the stuff smells... if it's leaking and it;s in the cab.. then goodnight.. you are either going to blow up or fall asleep for ever.. I for one will never put a gas bottle into an enclosed space... milk crate on the roof forever fo rme.. risk there is farless than risk posed by putting it in the cab.. the yachties have got it all ove rus here.. gas bottles are manditory to be stored outside the cab and any fittings are mandated to be installed by qualified gas fitter.. same goes for caravans and trailers.. there is a reason why gas fitters are a trade...