Yet another Gas thread

[the1andonly]

I've a gaslo bottle. yesterday went to fill up (gauge in yellow), this is only my second time of filling. filled up paid the man £11 and home via sainsbury to fill with diesel. Get home check the level and its in the red empty? is the meter that pointless or have i lost it ?

 

[hilldweller]

What kind of meter - internal or pressure ?

 

[the1andonly]

internal standard Gaslow. New Bottle

 

[DavidG58]

I would be as confused as you, everything sounds right except the red change now

Can you easily lift the bottle out to see if it feels heavy or light?

 

[TerryL]

First question - can you smell gas? At that rate of loss it'll be very obvious. Second check, do you have gas at the appliances (but make very very sure you haven't got a leak before doing so).

However, assuming you haven't yet exploded, it's almost certainly the gauge, they are pretty useless and have a tendency to stick. Try tapping the bottle, I'm guessing a new bottle may well be a bit sticky at first but will probably free itself.

We have two bottles and neither gauge could be called anywhere near accurate. I just run on one bottle until it runs out, change over then look out for a convenient refill point.

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[Richard n Ann]

Tap the gauge, they stick ?

 

[the1andonly]

No obvious gas leak. The cooker works on both bottles (refilable and calor). dont think bottle is empty I can rock it but not lift it out. Tapping does not give me a magical full reading. If the fridge only lasts a day when we are away next, will have to assume a problem if not gauge is crp.
Thanks for all replies, much appreciated from a confused and only.

 

[TM59]

Go and try filling again. Will quickly answer some of your questions.

 

[ChrisL]

See if you can find out how much an empty bottle weighs then weigh yours, you may be able to calculate how many litres of gas you have from the difference.

 

[DavidG58]

I don't suppose you have accidentally refilled your Calor bottle?

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[the1andonly]

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I don't suppose you have accidentally refilled your Calor bottle?

didn't think that was possible. with liquid and regulated side separate. certainly wasn't intentional.

 

[movan]

my gauge is forever sticking. I do as Terry L says and just swap over when gas runs out by not lighting hob. I filled up again once going off the gauge and felt embarrassed paying ... I had used less than £1 worth.

 

[Reallyretired]

I have alugas and the gauges are working at the moment, however in the past they have registered empty when full. Best to have two bottles and manually change when one runs out. Its embarrassing to drive out of my way to an lpg garage and be unable even to fit in the minimum 5l.

 

[Spriddler]

When I fill my Gaslow bottles the red section of the rotating indicator drum inside the gauge overruns the marker line on the outside of the gauge making it look as though the bottle is (still) empty. After a bit of gas has been used and the indicator drum has rotated a bit the 'Full' green section appears correctly at the marker line.

 

[the1andonly]

Alltogether a bit disconcerting, thanks for all the comments time to wait and see if it moves over into the green when some is used.

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[the1andonly]

Well 3 days of use fridge and cooking no movement yet?

 

[TerryL]

Give it time! It's quite surprising how little gas the fridge and cooking use - I reckon a 6kg bottle would last me 6 weeks, and that includes minimal water heating too!

 

[Jimbohorlicks]

Well 3 days of use fridge and cooking no movement yet?

What size is your gaslow bottle,? with £11 worth of gas, at 70p per litre thats around 15 litres so the bottle must be a 11kg bottle. If it was in yellow to start then there. Would still be a reasonable amount in the tank prior to filling, there is a chance that it was overfilled and therefore spun the gauge to the red. Did you fill it yourself or the operator?

 

[pagey]

mine is useless it goes from full to empty nothing in between the first time i panicked and went to fill it up and it only took 7 euros i now know i use about 1 euro per day

 

[Minxy]

The gauges don't start 'counting down' until you've used quite a bit of gas.

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[Jimbohorlicks]

Any updates? the1andonly

 

[the1andonly]

What size is your gaslow bottle,? with £11 worth of gas, at 70p per litre thats around 15 litres so the bottle must be a 11kg bottle. If it was in yellow to start then there. Would still be a reasonable amount in the tank prior to filling, there is a chance that it was overfilled and therefore spun the gauge to the red. Did you fill it yourself or the operator?

Filled it myself
Now just in the green. So it is moving.
Thanks for all the replys ps cant use my phone cos cant remember the password but this tethering lark seems to work. Ludites rule, but not any more

 

[GWAYGWAY]

I strongly recommend a trip along the A1303 in northern Spain any jammed gauge will cease to be a jammed gauge.
Ref the amount in it Don 't forget they are filled in litres from the pump and described as Kilos in capacity 2:1 lires to kilos.

 

[Pete5996]

Boil a kettle. Pour some of the contents over the bottle. Put kettle down. Feel bottle. Where it stays warm, the contents inside are gaseous. Move your hand down the warmed side until it feels cold. Below that, the contents are liquid. Rough-and-ready check that rarely fails...

 

[DerryW]

Returning after 2 weeks away and using gas for the fridge and some cooking for c50% of the time we were away, I cant believe we only used 5.4ltrs when we filled the bottles (Gaslow 2 bottle system) at our local Morrisons on the way home this afternoon. Another thing which supprised us was, it took over 10 minutes to put the 5.4Ltrs. Being the only 2nd time we've refilled the bottles, does 10 minutes to put 5.4ltr in sound right.

Thanks

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[TerryL]

That seems mighty slow to me - only takes around 2 mins to fill from empty (23 litres) in ours. Most likely the filling station pump, that looks about the right amount of gas usage; see what happens when you next fill up and try to let the bottle(s) empty a bit more.

But I have noticed that sometimes the pumps don't cut-off when the bottles are supposedly full and it's possible to slowly squeeze a little more in - but I'm suspicious that that is eating into the 20% vapour gap in the bottle, so I don't force it.