It is an issue at some places and is to try to prevent filling of Calor &c bottles which should not be user refilled.
I think 'portable' means as in lifts boot lid and removes free standing refillable bottle, rather than a refillable cylinder that is replenished via a fixed external filling point. But more knowledgeable/experienced Funsters will be able to quote chapter & verse.
In fact despite the shape it is a tank and used as such.
Safefill can be removed to be refilled and thus is a portable bottle, isn't it?
That is designed to be portable and to the uninitiated it will look as though you're filling a standard bottle.
Try morrisons they were partners with safefill a while ago
I had a problem refilling at Morrisons, but that down to my ineptitude and inexperience, culminating in the Kiosk Staff Member shouting over the tannoy that I would need to return the hose to the holster because it had timed out ... And you have to go to the Kiosk to pay for all LPG purchases, so I had to do the 'Walk of Shame'. But I am quite brazen, so was not in the slightest ashamed, I provided the cabaret for the other motorists ...
E.g. a caravanner with the cylinder in the car boot.
Yes funny how they turn them selves into wood burners and bbq’sOut local Calor depot refused to fill my Gaslow system a few years back, their loss, I changed to Flogas for all my workshop gas and might have cut up their cylinders to make wood burners and a charcoal retort.
That is so dangerous.
That is really stupid, dangerous & illegal.
The trouble is it you may well get away with it but the next guy coming to fill a safefill bottle may be challenged or refused because some person used an adaptor to fill a calor bottle which is dangerous both to the person and the people around the forecourt filling up.
I wondered about that. Currently use a 907 bottle, but was considering replacing it with the equivalent Gaslow bottle. Which would need removing from my gas locker to fill. A further reason for my hesitation is that the nearest LPG supplier to me is 35 minutes away, and currently 'out of service' for LPG... So I fear that investing in a refillable cylinder could be a costly error of judgement. I replaced my 907 cylinder a couple of weeks ago (probably part full still) when I had a gas flow problem in the van, so I've got about a year's supply on board presently.
What issues exactly? Why is it more dangerous than a safefill bottle? As I said our company had a large tank from which we filled the forklift bottles every day with no issues, even lying horizontally (the bottle not me).
But why though? Give me an example. How do they refill them at calor?
By an accurate weigh scale or a specifically metered connection?
I know nothing about the safety aspect but chatting to the yard man at a main Calor refill centre 40 miles away which I had to go to just before last Christmas (there was none at my local depot) he said every returned cylinder was purged with compressed air to ensure that it was empty of gas, the cylinder valve tested for leaks then pressure tested before refilling with an automatically measured exact amount of gas appropriate to the cylinder size. They then stamped a new alloy neck collar with the date, tare and gross weights. Most were also resprayed.
There are no safety devises built into the calor bottles unlike the safefill and gaslow that both have an internal float valve that cuts off at 80% fill level. It is very difficult to overfill these as opposed to a calor type bottle that has no safety float to stop an overfill.it relies on the person filling to have checked the weight of the bottle and to only put in a known volume of lpg . Accidentally overfilling doesn't allow for any expansion of the LPG and can result in spillage and potential bursts.
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