Thanks this really helped, been looking all over the Internet to find how to disconnect my clip on gas regulator! The on/off switch pushes in, of course it does!
Wow I must have missed the memo you are off to France. I do love these bottles we use them with our Cadac. Definitely might change my main bottle for one after watching these videos. 👍🏻
Hi Graham. I know this is an old video so you may have already have done what I have done. I swapped my Calor Lite bottles for two user refillable "SafeFill" bottles, a 7.5kg and 10kg which I use in my caravan. They look very similar to the Gaslight ones you have so they probably come from the same factory. The SafeFill bottle is much more expensive to buy initially but even the 10kg version only costs around £10-£14 to refill. YWhen you made this video you had already spent as much to exchange your Gas Light bottles as it would have cost you to buy a 10kg SafeFill bottle albeit an empty one.
Hi, great double video on gas. I always struggle to keep the nose weight of our caravan below the limit. The gaslight bottle will save valuable kg. Ive looked at safefill which has an up front layout of approx. £180 so the gas light is the one for me. Thanks for the info, very informative.
It's tricky isn't it? I knew I didn't really want Calor, I find them a bit cumbersome and heavy. I've put a bit more info here www.caravanvlogger.co.uk/caravan-and-motorhome-gas/ Graham
I use these bottles but refill myself from a 47kg gas bottle using a pol to pol high pressure hose, a pol to 21.8mm LH adaptor and the very same 27mm clip on connector shown in this video with the one way valve removed which is just a small rubber disk. Better than wasting money on safefill bottles as you can see the level in these and as long as you don't go over 15kg total you're well within safe limits + you can visibly see the gas filling. LPG Autogas is slowly becoming less available in the UK.
You going to France then? 😂 Seriously, thanks for sharing. Often wondered about the gaslights. Kg for Kg a smiliar price to Calor though a bit cheaper I guess. Cheers Graham.
Poshcats Camping Oh dear sorry to hear Ipswich has gained 3rd world status by not having a Homebase😂 We go to Homebase all the time! It was a Bunnings for 6 months too. Vive la Homebase 🇫🇷🇫🇷Thanks for watching Trev 👍🏻
Interesting vlog Graham, will be looking into the cost of these. Like the idea of being able to see gas levels. Didn’t know you were going to France! 🤔 cheers Martin 🙂
Homebase prices are quite steep. You've paid £5 per kg. My local supplier delivers the next day ( free) and charges £35.95 for my 13kg bottle. Worth shopping about!
Get them from your local flogas Depot got one in November £29 delivered for a refill truck Was full of bottles for homebase driver said they pay Less than I did.
I think they are the same bottles or very similar at least. If I was using more gas I’d switch 👍🏻 To buy 2 10kg bottles with adapters would cost £444 quid , so that’s like for like. Thanks for watching 👍🏻
Seems very expensive to me, l have one safefill 7.5kg bottle for my caravan which l got from gumtree for £45.00 second hand, we go to France every year so l purchased a french adaptor from eBay for £20.00 so l can fill it up in France if we need to. If the bottle is empty it costs about £8.00 to fill it.
Didn't know Homebase do gas Graham. Is the gas butane and how much does a full 10kg bottle weigh? I use 6kg CalorLite. When full it is 10kg. I exchanged a CalorLite a couple of weeks ago and cost was £27.80. Thanks for the informative video. Rob
You're right Graham, CalorLite has been discontinued. They're not mentioned on Calor main web pages but if you type CalorLite in the search box at top of Calor screen. Info pops up saying there is limited refill stock available through retailers. Regards Rob
I have calor lite bottles 6kg and get them refilled at go outdoors. Cheaper than calor gas centres and to be honest the cheapest I have found anywhere locally. Helps getting camping and caravan club discounts too.
Hi Graham, really useful video, thanks. Did you have to remove the retaining things for the calor bottles on the floor or does the flogas bottle fit over them?
Thanks for watching. I didn’t remove anything. It’s a bit of a struggle to get 10kg bottle in, but they do fit over the plastic supports in the floor. Then tighten the strap and that’s it. Oh and you need the 27mm adapter as the calor one won’t fit
Thanks for the easy to follow demonstration Graham, appreciated! So, forgive my ignorance, but aside from the connection thingy, I’m guessing the only other difference (apart from them being Green!) is going to be weight? How much lighter is a full 10kg Green bottle than a 10kg equivalent orange bottle?... 🤔🤷🏼♂️😎
Calor (orange / red) don't do a 10kg bottle. But the 10kg green (gaslight) full weighs 15.4kg, the 5kg equivalent weighs 8.7kg. Calor's 6kg weighs 14.3kg. So, 5kg green is 8.7kg whereas the 6kg red (Calor) is 14.3kg. More info here www.caravanvlogger.co.uk/caravan-and-motorhome-gas/ Hope that helps? Graham
Graham Very interesting VLOG. We have just bought a caravan and found that we can't get the traditional propane cylinders for lover or money. We intend to use gaslight and wonder if you could confirm where you got your regulators from.
Thanks for watching. This is what I bought (was out of stock last time I looked Huddersfield Gas 27mm Cylinder Adaptor & .75m (30") Caravan Pigtail Hose Kit Fits Calor Flogas www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B079X2257P/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apip_UOktLzLaPEO6Q
Excellent, well explained video Graham. Due to the difficulty getting the 6Kg Calorlite cylinders, as Calor are phasing them out, I was thinking of changing to your system but using two of the 5Kg Gaslight cylinders as I want to keep my nose weight down in my small Lunar Lexon (2 x 10Kg would be too heavy for us) My question is where did you get that nice looking hose with the 27mm adaptor already fitted, and is it safe for me to unscrew my current Calor screw fit hose and simply replace it with one like yours? If you have a web link for the hose, that would be great as I can't really find one like that? Thanks again.
Huddersfield Gas 27mm Cylinder Adaptor & .75m (30") Caravan Pigtail Hose Kit Fits Calor Flogas search for that on Amazon. Thanks for watching and commenting 👍🏻Graham
Hi! I'm going to be buying and using propane case for the first time!! May I ask if the Flogas 11kg Propane cylinder and the Gaslight 10kg cylinder uses the same connections/valves? Thinking do they use the same regulators and hoses? Many thanks!
Hi ,new caravaner.where can l get the pipe plus the connectors at both ends? Are they universal for caravans. Will they work on a elddis xplore 302/ 2010?l have the gas canister from my bbq but pipes connectors don't fit.😊😊
Hi! I'm going to be buying and using propane case for the first time!! May I ask if the Flogas 11kg Propane cylinder and the Gaslight 10kg cylinder uses the same connections/valves? Thinking do they use the same regulators and hoses? Many thanks! I'm using the gas to fuel my burner in the garden (for wok stir fry cooking) that outputs about 100,000 BTUs.
Hi, not sen the 11kg bottle before. Looked on their website and as long as it’s the 27mm clip on regulator then it will use the same as the bp gas light (flogas gaslight) bottles. Hope that helps? Graham
@@CaravanVlogger Thanks, Graham. Sorry I meant the 11kg standard STEEL CYLINDER vs the 10kg Gaslight cylinder. My bad - I'm new to all this. I was told by a retailer that the Gaslight wouldn't work cuz for my purposes (100,000 BTUs), I will need a high pressure regulator (not sure what it really means, something like 4kg/hr or 8kg/hr instead of the standard 1.5kg/hr) so the Gaslight cylinder would not accommodate this? I'm not sure......
I think I’d go with what the stockist said. On flogas website I see the 11kg Leisure Gas cylinder but that’s 50,000 BTU/hr so sounds like you might need higher pressure 🤷♂️Graham
Without going through all the replies and comments, can you refill the gas lights bottles in France as we are off there this year? Although after watching your two videos I think I will be changing anyway.👍😎
Hello Graham, just bought two 5kg footage (gaslight) bottles but can't find the connector and attachment. Where did you purchase your connector from Graham and is it a certain brand name we have to purchase? Also where did you purchase the European gas connectors for these bottles? Again, we can't seem to find the right product. Thanks in advance, regards David.
Hi David, If you search amazon for "Huddersfield Gas 27mm Cylinder Adaptor" that's exactly what I bought £21.99 incl gas pipe and adaptor. I guess elsewhere sell them too. I dont know about european adaptors, sorry, I just keep them in the caravan. Hops that helps. Graham
Thanks this really helped, been looking all over the Internet to find how to disconnect my clip on gas regulator! The on/off switch pushes in, of course it does!
Thanks for watching, glad it helped
France? Funny you have not mentioned that fact once. Great conversation that. Love those easy attach adapter things. Great video Graham. Ian...
Wow I must have missed the memo you are off to France.
I do love these bottles we use them with our Cadac. Definitely might change my main bottle for one after watching these videos. 👍🏻
Yeah I don’t like to mention it but we are off to 🇫🇷🤣. Thanks for watching 👍🏻Graham
Hi Graham I much prefer the connector on the calorlite to our safefill bottle far easier to use. France who's going to France😂Thanks Phil😀👍
Great video Graham, hope your going to be sending lots more when your in France 😜
Thanks for watching. Haha let’s hope you don’t regret saying that.😂Graham
Great wee video G, I’ve never seen them being attached before.
I always find this sort of information really useful, great stuff, thanks for sharing😀👍👍👍
unowho travel channel thanks very kind glad you found it useful 👍🏻Graham
One that got away, missed this one it’s just popped up.
Hi Graham. I know this is an old video so you may have already have done what I have done. I swapped my Calor Lite bottles for two user refillable "SafeFill" bottles, a 7.5kg and 10kg which I use in my caravan. They look very similar to the Gaslight ones you have so they probably come from the same factory. The SafeFill bottle is much more expensive to buy initially but even the 10kg version only costs around £10-£14 to refill. YWhen you made this video you had already spent as much to exchange your Gas Light bottles as it would have cost you to buy a 10kg SafeFill bottle albeit an empty one.
Hi, great double video on gas. I always struggle to keep the nose weight of our caravan below the limit. The gaslight bottle will save valuable kg. Ive looked at safefill which has an up front layout of approx. £180 so the gas light is the one for me.
Thanks for the info, very informative.
It's tricky isn't it? I knew I didn't really want Calor, I find them a bit cumbersome and heavy. I've put a bit more info here www.caravanvlogger.co.uk/caravan-and-motorhome-gas/ Graham
I have one 10kg LPG shop bottle refillable cost £160 when I brought it. £12 to fill. at 52p a litre.
I use these bottles but refill myself from a 47kg gas bottle using a pol to pol high pressure hose, a pol to 21.8mm LH adaptor and the very same 27mm clip on connector shown in this video with the one way valve removed which is just a small rubber disk. Better than wasting money on safefill bottles as you can see the level in these and as long as you don't go over 15kg total you're well within safe limits + you can visibly see the gas filling. LPG Autogas is slowly becoming less available in the UK.
You going to France then? 😂 Seriously, thanks for sharing. Often wondered about the gaslights. Kg for Kg a smiliar price to Calor though a bit cheaper I guess. Cheers Graham.
Thanks for watching Rich. I’m trying to keep the France thing quiet 🤫😂😂🥳🇫🇷🛳🤔Graham
Just one thing.... the Ipswich HOMEBASE closed 6 months ago 😂😂 Nice one Graham, good decision 👍🏻😄 Oh... Are you going to France ?
Poshcats Camping Oh dear sorry to hear Ipswich has gained 3rd world status by not having a Homebase😂 We go to Homebase all the time! It was a Bunnings for 6 months too. Vive la Homebase 🇫🇷🇫🇷Thanks for watching Trev 👍🏻
France ?
Great vlog, did you say you are going to France? lol
Looks a good idea. Is it difficult to replace the adapters and hose ? Thanks for sharing Graham. Cheers Stuart, Rebecca and blue 🐾
Easy to replace just undo one and replace with the other at the bulkhead regulator 👍🏻Thanks for watching Graham
Brilliant, thanks graham.
Interesting vlog Graham, will be looking into the cost of these. Like the idea of being able to see gas levels. Didn’t know you were going to France! 🤔 cheers Martin 🙂
I do think they’re a bit pricey bu I love being able to see how much gas is left👍🏻🇫🇷😳Thanks for watching 👍🏻
Homebase prices are quite steep. You've paid £5 per kg. My local supplier delivers the next day ( free) and charges £35.95 for my 13kg bottle.
Worth shopping about!
Get them from your local flogas
Depot got one in November
£29 delivered for a refill truck
Was full of bottles for homebase driver said they pay
Less than I did.
Wow! That is expensive! To fill our 10kg Safefill ,which incidentally looks identical to yours only red not green , costs around £10.
I think they are the same bottles or very similar at least. If I was using more gas I’d switch 👍🏻 To buy 2 10kg bottles with adapters would cost £444 quid , so that’s like for like. Thanks for watching 👍🏻
@@CaravanVlogger if you could refil easier you would only need the one. Or a smaller one. Shame your refil situation is so poor in your area.
Seems very expensive to me, l have one safefill 7.5kg bottle for my caravan which l got from gumtree for £45.00 second hand, we go to France every year so l purchased a french adaptor from eBay for £20.00 so l can fill it up in France if we need to. If the bottle is empty it costs about £8.00 to fill it.
Didn't know Homebase do gas Graham. Is the gas butane and how much does a full 10kg bottle weigh? I use 6kg CalorLite. When full it is 10kg. I exchanged a CalorLite a couple of weeks ago and cost was £27.80. Thanks for the informative video. Rob
Thanks Rob. It’s propane a 10kg bottle weighs 15.4kg full. I thought calor lite had been discontinued? Graham
You're right Graham, CalorLite has been discontinued. They're not mentioned on Calor main web pages but if you type CalorLite in the search box at top of Calor screen. Info pops up saying there is limited refill stock available through retailers. Regards Rob
I have calor lite bottles 6kg and get them refilled at go outdoors. Cheaper than calor gas centres and to be honest the cheapest I have found anywhere locally. Helps getting camping and caravan club discounts too.
My regulator is not on the bulkhead but on the actual Pigtail. Can you get a regulator and fitting in one and replace the pipe?
Hi Graham, really useful video, thanks. Did you have to remove the retaining things for the calor bottles on the floor or does the flogas bottle fit over them?
Thanks for watching. I didn’t remove anything. It’s a bit of a struggle to get 10kg bottle in, but they do fit over the plastic supports in the floor. Then tighten the strap and that’s it. Oh and you need the 27mm adapter as the calor one won’t fit
Thanks for the easy to follow demonstration Graham, appreciated!
So, forgive my ignorance, but aside from the connection thingy, I’m guessing the only other difference (apart from them being Green!) is going to be weight? How much lighter is a full 10kg Green bottle than a 10kg equivalent orange bottle?... 🤔🤷🏼♂️😎
Calor (orange / red) don't do a 10kg bottle. But the 10kg green (gaslight) full weighs 15.4kg, the 5kg equivalent weighs 8.7kg. Calor's 6kg weighs 14.3kg. So, 5kg green is 8.7kg whereas the 6kg red (Calor) is 14.3kg. More info here www.caravanvlogger.co.uk/caravan-and-motorhome-gas/ Hope that helps? Graham
Graham Very interesting VLOG. We have just bought a caravan and found that we can't get the traditional propane cylinders for lover or money. We intend to use gaslight and wonder if you could confirm where you got your regulators from.
Thanks for watching. This is what I bought (was out of stock last time I looked
Huddersfield Gas 27mm Cylinder Adaptor & .75m (30") Caravan Pigtail Hose Kit Fits Calor Flogas www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B079X2257P/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apip_UOktLzLaPEO6Q
Excellent, well explained video Graham. Due to the difficulty getting the 6Kg Calorlite cylinders, as Calor are phasing them out, I was thinking of changing to your system but using two of the 5Kg Gaslight cylinders as I want to keep my nose weight down in my small Lunar Lexon (2 x 10Kg would be too heavy for us) My question is where did you get that nice looking hose with the 27mm adaptor already fitted, and is it safe for me to unscrew my current Calor screw fit hose and simply replace it with one like yours? If you have a web link for the hose, that would be great as I can't really find one like that? Thanks again.
Huddersfield Gas 27mm Cylinder Adaptor & .75m (30") Caravan Pigtail Hose Kit Fits Calor Flogas search for that on Amazon. Thanks for watching and commenting 👍🏻Graham
Hi! I'm going to be buying and using propane case for the first time!! May I ask if the Flogas 11kg Propane cylinder and the Gaslight 10kg cylinder uses the same connections/valves? Thinking do they use the same regulators and hoses? Many thanks!
Hi ,new caravaner.where can l get the pipe plus the connectors at both ends?
Are they universal for caravans. Will they work on a elddis xplore 302/ 2010?l have the gas canister from my bbq but pipes connectors don't fit.😊😊
Hi! I'm going to be buying and using propane case for the first time!! May I ask if the Flogas 11kg Propane cylinder and the Gaslight 10kg cylinder uses the same connections/valves? Thinking do they use the same regulators and hoses? Many thanks! I'm using the gas to fuel my burner in the garden (for wok stir fry cooking) that outputs about 100,000 BTUs.
Hi, not sen the 11kg bottle before. Looked on their website and as long as it’s the 27mm clip on regulator then it will use the same as the bp gas light (flogas gaslight) bottles. Hope that helps? Graham
@@CaravanVlogger Thanks, Graham. Sorry I meant the 11kg standard STEEL CYLINDER vs the 10kg Gaslight cylinder. My bad - I'm new to all this. I was told by a retailer that the Gaslight wouldn't work cuz for my purposes (100,000 BTUs), I will need a high pressure regulator (not sure what it really means, something like 4kg/hr or 8kg/hr instead of the standard 1.5kg/hr) so the Gaslight cylinder would not accommodate this? I'm not sure......
I think I’d go with what the stockist said. On flogas website I see the 11kg Leisure Gas cylinder but that’s 50,000 BTU/hr so sounds like you might need higher pressure 🤷♂️Graham
@@CaravanVlogger Thanks, Graham! :)
Without going through all the replies and comments, can you refill the gas lights bottles in France as we are off there this year? Although after watching your two videos I think I will be changing anyway.👍😎
Thanks for watching. No you can’t refill in France. I took two 10kg bottles 😁Graham
Can you still get those type of bottles refilled - got one knocking about ok my garden and Homebase has now closed
No you can't refill them, it's replace only. You can buy them online though, and they exchange bottles. Search for flogas light.
Thanks for watching..
You said you got your bottles refilled? Did you mean that or did you get two replacement bottles.
Thanks for watching Karen. Ah sorry, if I said refilled I meant replacement bottles 👍🏻 Graham
Caravan Vlogger thAnks. We need to lighten the payload of our Cadiz due to axle problems. Thinking of using small gaslight bottles.
Hello Graham, just bought two 5kg footage (gaslight) bottles but can't find the connector and attachment. Where did you purchase your connector from Graham and is it a certain brand name we have to purchase? Also where did you purchase the European gas connectors for these bottles? Again, we can't seem to find the right product. Thanks in advance, regards David.
Hi David,
If you search amazon for "Huddersfield Gas 27mm Cylinder Adaptor" that's exactly what I bought £21.99 incl gas pipe and adaptor. I guess elsewhere sell them too. I dont know about european adaptors, sorry, I just keep them in the caravan. Hops that helps. Graham
@@CaravanVlogger thanks Graham.
5kg or 10kg for caravan?
I use 2x 10kg, but it depends on the size of your locker
So, you’re off to Spain I hear? 🤦🏻♂️😂
Paul and Bianca Adventures WTF 😂😂
far too expensive