4.5KG Gas bottle swap and blow
Submitted: Thursday, Mar 12, 2009 at 13:56
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Strawb
Not sure if anyone has found this before (searched
Forum for it) but I recently took a 4.5kg gas bottle to COLES to do a Swap over. I grabbed a bottle out of the cage which appeared the same size (only 8.5kg's and the smaller ones in the cage). When about to pay for it, I realised it was 3.7kg's only and the cost was $24. I went back and looked in the cage but there were no 4.5's at all. Further inspection reveals that the replacement 3.7kg cylinders are the same height and diameter as the 4.5kg's but had a taller ring on the base to make up the difference. So unless you put them side by side you cannot see the difference in capacity. Bugger that rip-off so I went next door to Mitre10 and refilled the 4.5kg for $13.
So that missing or overlooked .8kg if you are not aware, will make the Swap replacement mob $5 every time a 4.5 is swapped for a 3.7. A scam or has something changed since these 4.5kg's were bought 4 years ago?
Strawb