Help! Where can I fill up my Safefill gas canister

well I tried the "mylpg.eu and gave me a place in cleveleys so headed up the road to enquire, could not find and garage next door said not been there for over 30 years.  

Yes, a good point DD. We can all help one another if we take the trouble to confirm a site is present and fills Safefill. 

I built and own a self built very luxurious panel van campervan into which I installed a Safefill cylinder.

Because I was going to be touring France where I know it is illegal to fill up stand alone gas cylinders and because of the problems I had experienced at times refilling in the UK I decided to try to convert install a external wall mounted filling point.

Unfortunately these excellent cylinders don't have 2 entries into the cylinder and they have no plans to change the design, so I made contact with Gasit, who, following discussions, supplied me with a wall mounted filling point, a length of high pressure hose, a pig-tail connection to fit the tank and an in line on/off lever valve.

Following installation, all I now need to do when I need to refill the tank, wherever I am in the UK or Europe, all I do is swap the normal gas take off hose from the top of the tank and attach the pig-tail ended hose from the external filling point and then open the on/off valve.

I then drive to the filling station and connect the filling hose to the external filling point and that's it, one safely refilled tank and no questions asked!  I then proceed to wherever, open the gas locker, turn off the lever valve, disconnect the pig-tail and reconnect the normal hose.  Job done.

This set up has now been working perfectly for several years without a hitch and without a single question being asked.

Well done MM, not only in finding a solution, but for completing an adventurous task.  Far beyond what I can do.

David

done.

Honestly David the conversion I made wasn't at all difficult to do.

The most difficult bit was the planning and design and that now has been done for anyone else to do exactly the same, then of course cutting a hole in the body might be utterly frightening to some, but when you pluck up courage and measure and mark the cut aperture several times over that is easy as well.

As I wrote Gasit supplied the parts I needed, I don't know if they would, but if anyone wanting to make this simple mod didn't want to do it themselves, possibly Gasit would do it for them?

Phil

Well done Phil. Sounds like you found the solution that suits you and that’s what it’s all about. Another guy not getting ripped off renting cylinders!! 

Phil, I recently purchased a 10 kg Safefill cylinder and very intertested in your external wall mounted filling point. Can you clarify please - is the filling point or the line on/off lever valve one way only, otherwise with the LPG gun released, what's stopping the gas coming out?

When filling the cylinder direct, the cylinder manual stop tap is opened and closed to allow for gas flow / no gas flow I believe.

I suspect I'm missing something obvious but can't see it at present.

PS - I haven't filled the cylinder yet, but will be shortly for summer trip to France.

Tweet from Morrison’s!! Their sites are now accepting Safefill cylinders! Congratulations to Safefill for the dogged determination they have shown. I have always believed this would happen and now it’s here. Other large businesses will now, I’m sure, come on board. Well done Safefill and congratulations to Morrison’s who actually ‘get it’