Filling Gas Bottle

[fishinglizard]

I have watched gas bottles get filled, it looks pretty easy. So I have 2 x 90 kg gas bottles for heating at the back of my house. Is it illegal if I fill my 9 kg bottles up myself?? It would be heaps cheaper and pretty easy I think, could easily buy a hose to do it?? Anyone else do it?

Thanks

 

[mfexpanda]

I have over the years but bunning is dirt cheap so not worth the effort.
You need to turn the doner bottle upside down so you feed liquid gas into the feeder bottle.
Proper feed bottles feed from the bottom so liquid gas comes out.

 

[fishinglizard]

Ill just go to bunnings then and scrap that idea

 

[Bellbirdweb]

And yes, it is illegal and dangerous without the correct filling valve.

 

[macca]

Firstly don't do it, don't even think about it and did I say don't do it. Just so you know the bottles are different as well so all you would get pretty much is vapour. Decanting bottles draw from the bottom and not the top.

 

[Gibson]

Don't do it a 9kg bottle exploding will flatten a house not worth the risk

 

[dagree]

Just to reiterate what others have said.... DON'T DO IT!!
I still have a mental picture in my mind of a work colleague running out of a tin workshop (with tin sheets floating down from above) after he tried filling a 1.5KG bottle from a 90KG one. This happened over 20 years ago and I still walk away when getting a bottle filled the correct way.

Apparently the cause was due to a leak because of make shift hoses and they had an old industrial fan running behind him. (Sparks from electric motor was blamed as the ignition point)

 

[Capt. Gadget]

The local hot air Balloon companies fill their gas bottles that supply their burners from the bowser at the servo

 

[dagree]

The local hot air Balloon companies fill their gas bottles that supply their burners from the bowser at the servo

Have they got similar tanks to car LPG tanks?

 

[Capt. Gadget]

Have they got similar tanks to car LPG tanks?

Not sure they look like ordinary gas bottles to me but there would have to be some sort of difference as they fill them every day in balloon season

 

[skippy]

Forklift tanks are the same maybe because we fill ours up at the servo just like normal LPG cars..... just that the tanks are smaller. Are they the same ones @Capt. Gadget

 

[dagree]

Surely it must be legal/legit as the servo wouldn't/shouldn't allow them to fill them?

 

[dagree]

Forklift tanks are the same maybe because we fill ours up at the servo just like normal LPG cars..... just that the tanks are smaller.

That's making things clearer to me now.

 

[skippy]

Quote "Surely it must be legal/legit as the servo wouldn't/shouldn't allow them to fill them?"

You would assume so because everyone does it.

 

[dagree]

Got me thinking and getting my head around it...... As long as the gas tanks are fitted with the correct fitting everything is/should be legit.

Going to have to take a trip to one of our depots tomorrow and check out the forklift bottle and put my mind at ease! Had gas on a previous vehicle so know what the fitting looks like.

 

[macca]

By the way car gas from the servo is different to what goes into your caravan bottles. I wont go into the techo side of it but in simple terms its a better/safer gas (Propane) that goes into your caravan bottle. Car gas has Butane in it with Propane and the mix varies. Butane is not good for appliances, it is not as safe at different temperatures.

 

[Capt. Gadget]

Forklift tanks are the same maybe because we fill ours up at the servo just like normal LPG cars..... just that the tanks are smaller. Are they the same ones @Capt. Gadget

Yeah @skippy I think they look the same as a forklift tank

 

[Griffo]

Also a thing to be aware of is that all 9kg/8.5kg bottle are not the same circumference. The Jayco bottle are thin where as most refills are fatter and as a result you cant do up the clamp as the thread is not long enough. Strangely the 8.5kg bottles are fatter than the 9Kg original bottles.