Gas lantern glass cracking while in use

Yep the old gas bottle is redundant now
- 12v fluro for light
- led head torch for getting round the campsite
- compact butane stove for cooking
gas bottles have had there day and serve no purpose anymore.
Although-------- I still have a tape deck

Had a friend bring one of those butane gas stoves with him last time we went camping - ( the cheap 1 person ones ) about 20 min into boiling water on it - the whole thing exploded - the sound was louder than a 12 guage shot gun.

ended up that the heat was being directed back down by the pot to the little butane aerosol can to such a point it exploded ... needless to say we don't use them any more or let people near us use them. I have a nice hot plate thats 10 mm thick and about 700 mm long x 400 MM and free to use by anyone that would like to use it ;)

Boc

I bought one once cos I forgot the gas bottle. I went through two cans of gas and barely cooked two meals. I reversed over it and binned it. Made feel much better.

Owen

you guys are doing it wrong I have never had one explode and their desighn makes it look darn unlikely.
I am still on the original gas pack - they last quite along time and are alot cheaper than gas for your bottle

We have one of those $20 jobs as well and find it takes forever to heat up a billy of water also find as the cannister gets low on gas it (which is very quickly) the flame is more or less useless to heat. Gas bottle on our 2 burner stove is definately quicker. We nearly set our table alight one night when heating up water to cook our prawns in. Similiar to reply above it must have been throwing the heat back down and next thing could smell smoke. mmm smoke coming off timber table. I only use the $20 job now if cooking up a few snags or something quick other wise I have reverted back to the good old primus 2 burner. Regards Steve M

Hi all,
Re those little gas cannister stoves..........I have heard allsorts of bad stories about them, but having used them for years i have found them great. Some of the stories often relate to user error, eg.. not having the cylinder in the correct position before pushing the "connect" leaver, or not turning the cooktop over.
I have found the flame on these little jobs ample for cooking and used two for full time cooking for two years.
Maybe some are not as good, maybe i have been lucky ??

Cheers to all...........BIGDOG

Ahhh the old Tilley lamp, I remember them, ( I was only little) in fact we have one in the shed somewhere!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cheers

D

Hi Dunworkin,
Glad to hear that you still have the old Tilley pressure lamp, don't let it get tossed out as rubbish. Still one of the best sources of light for outdoor activities.

They are becoming a collectors item, a bit like the old "Sievert" pressure blow lamp/torch us old timers used to heat up copper soldering irons.

(What the hell are they, I can hear all the young-uns muttering to themselves).

Cheers

Disco.

mate I just bought a remote controled rechargable fluro from aldi as a back up light has a 240 v charger as well as a 12v one and it only cost $16.00 :) just a thought !!

Regards J.B.

They can be fragile alright, I tried the gauze ones before I went to my Northstar, but the light output is definetly less on them.

The tempering sounds feasable.

Another thing to practice is bring it down to low for a short while before you extinguish it, this allows the glass to cool a bit before it is subjected to the cool of the night.

Ron

Correct. When in transport mode, the lever on the front which presses the gas canister is unable to be moved, but they are a bit flimsy and can be forced. If a kettle or pan larger than the base is put on for any length of time, the gas flame can't spread anywhere other than onto the canister, with bad results.

With the base the correct way up, these things will boil a kettle MUCH faster than a typical camper trailer/caravan gas cooktop.

A limitation of these little units is operation in very cold conditions - the gas will freeze and the flame will gradually shrink to almost nothing. Your kettle will not boil under these conditions.

I reckon they are a fantastic device when operated properly - but, like a chain saw or any number of other tools, can bite badly if wrongly handled.