nikwax wrote:* Use a refiller. HF and others sell these for about $20, allows you to refill the little bottles from the big canisters (which we have one for our barbecue). Anyone use these and have any comments? Is it safe? This is clearly the most economical way to go.
Comments?
Thanks!!!
I bought one of those adapters and have been mostly disappointed. If I recall correctly, the instructions talked about how you will get a higher amount transferred to the small bottles by flipping the larger tank on its top (something I am no longer physically able to do). It also mentioned something else about cooling down the disposable bottle to aid in the transfer...easier said then done while camping. All I know is that when I was at Chain O Lakes, I could barely refill any of 2 or 3 small, mostly empty bottles off my 30lb tank (they didn't all sound the same when trying to refill, which concerned me) and my hamburgers were a little on the rare side for our last dinner since I forgot to bring my extension hose with me to attach to the 30lb tank on the front.
In this thread, Mike Schneider said, "Refilling 1# bottles is not safe". That's all I need to hear. At
https://www.coleman.com/coleman/images/pdf/5071.pdf, Coleman warns not to refill disposable cylinders. A question to consider is how will you know that you haven't overfilled the disposable bottle past the point of where it might blow apart? Maybe you can't overfill it using a regular propane tank but I don't know...and I don't want to take the risk anymore so all this leads me to decide that I will never again try to refill a disposable bottle.
My 30lb tank is located on the front platform of my trailer and from now on, I will simply run a long hose to the back where my receiver-mounted Freedom Grill and galley-located 2-burner propane stove are.
Karl
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