I know it is possible to refill a calor bottle as described but it is not legal. Only Calor can legally refill a Calor bottle. Both Butane and Propanegas bottles and different brands (such as Campingaz) all have different fittings for their gas cylinders. You must get the correct fitting. This takes a different regulator to the Calor Gas 4.5kg Butane cylinder (a 27mm clip-on regulator). Car camping customers who use small Calor Gas cylinders will cease to be customers; caravan, domestic and industrial users of larger gas cylinders will get the same service. If they don't have to deliver so many gas cylinders they'll simply use smaller or fewer lorries. Hence this is an improvement in customer service. Rogerio Lopes, Calor’s Chief Executive Officer, said: “Improving our cylinder experience is a priority for us as we enter 2023. The legacy of the pandemic has had a significant impact on our supply chain, operations, and our ability to provide a reliable service to our cylinder customers. The complexity of our existing range prevents us from improving the service. Therefore, we’ve taken the difficult decision to streamline our cylinder range, but it is necessary to simplify the business to improve overall reliability and availability to our customers.” What can you do now?

Scale it up or down according to your leak size as you wish, but it's gonna go BANG in a big way with even as little as a static spark from your jumper, or a spark from a spanner/cylinder hitting stone/concrete that's been dislodged during the panic of discovering a leak! Only 80% of the cylinder volume is the maximum safe permitted amount, if not there are high risks of fuel discharge, leaks & damage to equipment if the extra 20% is not used immediately to relieve the overfill & travelling to warmer climates will undoubtedly exacerbate the danger..... if that does not cause concern one, then how about an internal leak which may well result in an eternal sleep & the risk of explosion should be obvious to those who work with lpg. As the sole supplier to many distribution outlets and for these reasons, it is difficult to understand how this move by Calor improves the cylinder experience for recreational boaters or maintains a reliable service for cylinder customers who rely on the smaller sizes. The RYA has therefore urged Calor to reconsider its decision to discontinue the sizes that many boaters rely on.

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Unfortunately, you'll typically find that new gas hoses are very stiff and are difficult to push onto the fitting.

I think what I require is a 21mm to bulkhead clip on adaptor? This would then attach to the Butane pigtail which goes to the bulkhead regulator. They said they were working hard to source additional canisters and, although they couldn't guarantee a date, they thought it would only be a couple of months before they could swap sizes within a category. At the end of January 2023, Calor Gas Ltd told its distributors without prior warning that from the 01 February 2023 it would discontinue its Cube, 3.9kg Propane, 4.5kg Butane, 6kg Lite Propane and 12kg Butane cylinders. This means that Calor customers won’t be able to buy new cylinders or exchange existing cylinders of these sizes for a refill.Start Camping Camping Tips Fitting a Regulator to your Gas Cylinder Fitting a Regulator to your Gas Cylinder Posted by Gav Grayston. If you prefer to use the lightweight bottles, unfortunately Calor have advised that they have no plans at present for a new light weight cylinder. Walking to the shops can be declared a risk in that case. If ventilated absolutely no chance of that happening with the minor quantity used. If that's an issue why would safefill bottles, cars etc be allowed to be refilled on the forecast. Calor are not alone in rationalising their cylinder range, Flowgas are withdrawing the 20mm clip on coupling cylinders, BUT at least they are continuing with the same size/capacity cylinders with a 21mm clip on coupling. Your decision is causing my members and also the members of the Moody Yacht Owners’ Association and pretty much all other UK yacht owners a real headache and frankly given that there are huge numbers of yachts in the UK all summer long we simply cannot understand why you would walk away from this market,” said Corney.