Gas Hose Length

We have certainly used ours on camping gaz, we still have one of the large cylinders from our camping days. Although an expensive way to buy gas, they take up relitively little room / payload, and with the Cadac last for ages.

Good point KS, have decided  to take a 5kg gaslite thats half full.... 

Your choice, Steve.

Not  a  "Gas  Expert"  Steve,  but  I  have  seen  an  acetylene  bottle  with  the  hose  burning  !!  The  hose  had  been  accidentally  draped  over  the  exhaust    of  a  compressor  'til  it  burned  through.

A  knowledgeable  gent  strolled  out,  bent  the  hose  double  in  his  bare  hands,  the  flames  extinguished  and  he   casually  shut  the  bottle  valve.  It  was  only  then  that  he  shewed  any  emotion,  and  a  fine  command  of  the  English  language  as  he  berated  the  careless  construction  engineer  !!

As  long  as  there  is  pressure  in  the  bottle  the  hose  will  melt  back  slowly  rather  than  burn  as  we  understand  it.  Then  when  the  bottle  is  virtually  empty  the  pressure  will  drop,  obviously,  and  the  flames  can  go  back  towards  the  bottle,  and  should  it  not  be  switched  off  you  have  the  potential  for  a  "Big  Bang"

Thanks ABM that's more or less what I assumed. I once had flames from the thread connector to the Cadac, when I had stupidly only hand tightened it, then got distracted. I quickly , turned off the supply at the caravan, which is actually a disconnect on our type, and of course it extinguished.

Calor recommend hose should not exceed 2 meters. I have had a dealer who reminded me of this and refused to sell me a longer piece.

peedee

For  all  the  Dealer  knew  PeeDee,  you  were  replacing  a  few  shorter  lengths  in  your  'van  !

Buy online then.  Better than the awning going up in flames which was the risk for me when using the full size awning

Hi Brian,for many years we had children with us on all our trips and chose to minimise the risk of one of them tripping, and pulling over the BBQ,by using a 6kg cylinder and short length of hose.

Whilst we do not always holiday with children now we find that being able to place the BBQ to either side, or end, of the van is very useful as is having a 'make do' supply while we sort a replacement for our 10kg gaslight.

Hi a&j.

Thanks for your input.   As stated upthread, I intend to use a half full 5kg gaslite using the original supplied hose and regulator, until i figure a way to connect up an external barby connection to my main gas supply which is a Safefill. We should get a few meals out of a half full 5kg gaslite, so plenty  of time to work out and install my external barby point.......