Gas Bottle adaptors for EU

[Happy Jim]

Hi,

My friend is nipping off to Europe for a couple of months, they have normal Calor bottles which will obviously run out……are there a set of adaptors (POL fitting to whichever countries fitting)? That they can buy? - I had a look and the only thing that popped up was refillable adaptors.

Thanks

Jim

PS - I know refillable is the real answer!

 

[fishplug]

is this what you're after?

 

[meanders]

I have never seen what you are looking for. When we ran out in France and bought a French cylinder, I just bought a new pig-tail from the supplier ( that cost about the same as the cylinder ) and changed it over at the regulator. A refillable is the best solution as you know but then you need a bag of bits like fishplug has linked too.

I gave my French pig-tail to a Funsters who was going over without refillable some years back.

Edit to change mistyped h to g in the final paragraph. 'gave is very different meaning to 'have'.

 

[grasscutter]

is this what you're after?

They are for refillable, not for foreign bottles.
It will be pigtails to suit the foreign bottles.

 

[Jimbohorlicks]

is this what you're after?

They ard not what you need unless you have a refillable inlet to take them . Having calor bottles really means once they are empty they are useless in the eu and as said you have to buy a local bottle and connector to your regulator

^{_{Subscribers  do not see these advertisements}}

 

[Brains]

Hi,

My friend is nipping off to Europe for a couple of months, they have normal Calor bottles which will obviously run out……are there a set of adaptors (POL fitting to whichever countries fitting)? That they can buy? - I had a look and the only thing that popped up was refillable adaptors.

Thanks

Jim

PS - I know refillable is the real answer!

Refillable is the ONLY answer!

(Or buy local bottles and get matching pigtails fitted to the regulator, which will then have to be removed and the UK ones refitted.
Keeping in mind each European country has a different set, a bottle bought in France is not compatible in Spain any more then a UK one is)

Unless he is a competent engineer, I'd not muck about with LPG pipes.
Too many things to go very seriously wrong (fatally wrong) if you don't do it correctly.

It's worth keeping in mind a Calor bottle is the wrong side of £50, and in winter you could be going through one a week.
It may cost £500 to fit refillable, but at £5 to fill, you only need to be gone for a couple of months to break even, and you have increased the resale value of the MoHo and if he intends of travelling next winter, then it completely makes long term financial sense.

 

[fishplug]

They are for refillable, not for foreign bottles.
It will be pigtails to suit the foreign bottles.

Ah, yes, you are quite right. Apologies.

(note to self RTFQ....)

 

[StillGoing]

Hi,

My friend is nipping off to Europe for a couple of months, they have normal Calor bottles which will obviously run out……are there a set of adaptors (POL fitting to whichever countries fitting)? That they can buy? - I had a look and the only thing that popped up was refillable adaptors.

Thanks

Jim

PS - I know refillable is the real answer!

There are various clip on adapters available which need a pigtail to connect to your existing regulator. Unless you know which type of cylinder you are going to buy, I’d have thought it would be easier to get an adapter at the time you purchase the cylinder.

https://www.gasproducts.co.uk/gas-regulators/lpg-gas-bottle-adaptors-connectors.html

 

[Happy Jim]

Thank you all, I thought that might be the case but wasn’t totally sure..

Cheers

Jim