Chinese Diesel Heaters

[macabethiel]

This talk about Calor Gas reminded me of a local incident!!

A one time locally famous comedian who was in his late 70's was badly burnt and his house severely damaged when he was trying to change the top of his gas cylinder.

He somehow managed to loosen the boss resulting in jet of gas igniting and sending a massive blow torch of gas into the air that burnt a hole in his ceiling and through the roof. He had severe hand & facial burns but lived to tell the tale as did his Pet Bird !

I kid you not his stage name Sid Burns! The incident was about 30 years ago.

 

[terranosaurusdoug]

There's a stand alone option too, not to impressed with the 4 outlets though.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Ridgeyar...rentrq:242ae44716f0a4b7b7347995ffa04bc1|iid:1

Hey that looks good, with a longer length of exhaust could be ok for tents or to leave in the house in case of emergencies, obviously the exhaust fumes are the main consideration though!

 

[Banshee]

https://www.calor.co.uk/news-and-vi...refilling-of-lpg-cylinders-at-petrol-stations

 

[solarman216]

The big problem here is that there is no way that overfilling can be controlled, on refillable cylinders there is a float that cuts the supply at about 80% so giving room for expansion, on a camping type cylinder it can be filled 100% so what happens when the cylinder warms up? big bang, Rick

 

[jims-terrano]

There are refillable onboard gas kits available for motor homes, the cylinder is bolted to the chassis and you have a filling inlet of somekind fitted to the side of the vehicle. Simply go to filling station and fill up, different adapters available for these as nozzles are different around Europe apparently. Wonder if these have the 80% limiters or are these illegal too?

 

[panelbeater]

i never overfill,a 6kg will take 12ltr but always under fill by 1 or 2 ltr to give the 80%,but the pump stops, if a somebody does not know what he is doing well bad things might happem.
there are films out there showing the refilling of the bottles on the commersial sites and it is filled the same way as i fill mine up except there pump only delivers the correct amount of gas where i have to watch and stop pump befor it gets to the ltrs as they tend to run on a tad.
the pump has not got the pressure to overfill it cuts out same as a gas cer pump till pump stops.
calour do not like it because they want the cash on exchange prices.