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[Martin_1962]

As for the running of a stove... It can be done but why would you want to. LPG at the pump is now getting more expensive than bottled and you've paid duty on it for road use... at least use it on the road and get your moneys worth!!!  :-/ :-/

It isn't with reasonable sized bottles. My 13kg propane costs just over £10 to fill and Calor would swap for about £3 more

[Entwood]

Please also remember that LPG is DANGEROUS if mis-handled .... This may sound far-fetched but is a true story ....

The father of a friend of mine is "miserly" to say the least, and was not happy at the cost of replacement 6Kg bottles for his 'van compared with the cost of 47Kg bottles (its over twice the price/kg) so he decided to save some money.

He rigged up a system to connect a 47Kg directly to a 6kg and did the following :

1. 6 Kg in a chest freezer for 24 hours    (?   :-/ :-/ :-/  )

2. Connect 6 kg to 47 kg

3. Invert 47 kg ( !!!!!!!!!!!    :-/ :-/ :-/ :-/ ) leave for 48 hours

The theory being that the LPG would "flow" from the 47 to the 6 .. it seemed to work for him .. he reckoned he could "half fill" a 6 kg bottle this way.

He did this for about 3 months before his  garage blew up - luckily no-one was hurt and there was nothing expensive in the garage.

The reason for the "bang"  .. dead simple .. he had been using standard low-pressure gas pipe .. the rubber stuff you buy from any camping shop. Through this he had been passing unregulated LIQUID gas, it had slowly but surely destroyed the pipe, until it leaked ..........

He was lucky that the actual amount of gas left in the "system" was quite small .. apparently ... and that kept the damage to a "much lower level than expected" ....

Moral of the story ??  don't mess with LPG ....  

Now I don't for one moment think a member of OOF would be that stupid .... but ...  :-/ :-/ :-/ :-/

 

[Lazydocker]

As for the running of a stove... It can be done but why would you want to. LPG at the pump is now getting more expensive than bottled and you've paid duty on it for road use... at least use it on the road and get your moneys worth!!!  :-/ :-/

It isn't with reasonable sized bottles. My 13kg propane costs just over £10 to fill and Calor would swap for about £3 more

IIRC that's about 20 litres so there's probably very little difference at the moment but with prices but with fuel at the pump going up it'll soon be more expensive to use fuel with duty paid!!

[Martin_1962]

As for the running of a stove... It can be done but why would you want to. LPG at the pump is now getting more expensive than bottled and you've paid duty on it for road use... at least use it on the road and get your moneys worth!!!  :-/ :-/

It isn't with reasonable sized bottles. My 13kg propane costs just over £10 to fill and Calor would swap for about £3 more

IIRC that's about 20 litres so there's probably very little difference at the moment but with prices but with fuel at the pump going up it'll soon be more expensive to use fuel with duty paid!!

This was at 54.5p a litre as Calor do not do refilling (48p)

[Lazydocker]

As for the running of a stove... It can be done but why would you want to. LPG at the pump is now getting more expensive than bottled and you've paid duty on it for road use... at least use it on the road and get your moneys worth!!!  :-/ :-/

It isn't with reasonable sized bottles. My 13kg propane costs just over £10 to fill and Calor would swap for about £3 more

IIRC that's about 20 litres so there's probably very little difference at the moment but with prices but with fuel at the pump going up it'll soon be more expensive to use fuel with duty paid!!

This was at 54.5p a litre as Calor do not do refilling (48p)

Is that all... Cheapest garage around here is now 57.9ppl I believe. And the local ones to me are 59.9ppl!!

Still cheaper than petrol and I can still get my money back on a DIY conversion inside a year! Just got to get the pennies and time to do it!!  

[Martin_1962]

54.5 is a lot - I fill up at 48p a litre, two suppliers in Worcester - keeps them honest