Start Camping Camping Tips Fitting a Regulator to your Gas Cylinder Fitting a Regulator to your Gas Cylinder Posted by Gav Grayston. Unfortunately, you'll typically find that new gas hoses are very stiff and are difficult to push onto the fitting. There’s always empty gas bottles either being given away or sold cheap (fiver) on local selling groups online / Facebook There are different types of regulators for each type of gas cylinder. What gas regulators are needed for camping? All our regulators are colour coded to match the corresponding cylinder colours. Our butane regulators are blue in colour to match butane gas cylinders and our propane regulators are red in colour to match the red propane gas cylinders.

The regulator fits the top of your gas bottle and controls gas release from the cylinder to your camping stove. You connect a gas hose between the regulator and your stove. There are a number of questions that always come up when searching for a gas regulator; which regulator for Calor gas, which gas regulator for BBQ, which regulator for propane tank etc. Here at Gas Equipment Direct, our aim is to make it as easy as possible for our customers to find the exact regulator they require. If the washing-up liquid bubbles when the regulator is open, your clips aren’t secure enough, and you have a gas leak. The regulators for the above cylinders (Calor Butane, Calor Propane, and Campingaz) require an 8mm gas hose.

Once you have chosen a gas cylinder for camping, you must select the appropriate regulator. This guide helps you find the correct regulator and hose. Now we only BBQ at home in warmer weather so a butane bottle for the BBQ would be just fine. Especially as the gas was free. If bbq instructions tell you to use propane, then that’s what you need to use and the supplied hose and regulator will fit a propane bottle

Yes replacement gas has been in short supply during this Covid nightmare, as has many other commodities From freecycle I have been given a 13kg butane gas bottle ( not Calor ), and from the weight ( swing feel ) of it it would seem to be nearly full. As the 13 kg of gas was free I don't mind buying a regulator as long as I buy the correct one and don't end up buying 2 or 3 to get one to fit correctly.

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Then you need a Butane regulator not a Propane and this is the common gas for "clip-on" coupled regulators in the UK. You can sometimes get kits that combine a regulator and hose, which can save some money. The only downside I've found with the kits is that the hose can be short when your stove is on your camping table. Your gas cylinder should be on the ground, away from your stove. To work out how long a hose you need, measure the height of your camping table and add more to make it easy to position your stove on the table. You can get the proper liquid to test for leaks, such as Calor's biodegradable gas leak detector. The Gas Spanner It ought to be easy enough to measure the bottles spigot diameter; clearly the difference between 20/21mm to 27 is obvious but with care you should be able to identify the 20 from the 21.

Now I've seen there are clip on regulators in 20mm and 21mm fitting for butane, it would be difficult to determine by measurement if one of these were the correct regulator, if indeed either. You can’t mix and match propane and butane bottles and regulators - as you’ve found out, 2 different systems and one won’t fit the other Gas hoses have a date printed on them and should be replaced if more than five years after manufacture. Please note that Propane gas cylinders contain considerably greater pressure than Butane cylinders and as a result, regulators are designed for use with either Propane or Butane and are not interchangeable because of their different design pressures and the different connections on the cylinder itself. We offer several low-pressure regulators including Propane regulators, Butane regulators, Handwheel Propane regulators and Camping Gas regulators. We also offer high-pressure regulators for certain appliances and pheasant rearing, both of which require a larger operating pressure and capacity.Remember, if you have a camping kitchen table with a built-in windshield for stoves, which I recommend, these are higher than regular camping tables, so you'll want a longer hose for your gas cylinder. Both Butane and Propanegas bottles and different brands (such as Campingaz) all have different fittings for their gas cylinders. You must get the correct fitting. Sometimes the hose on regulator kits may be a bit on the short side (we found this with the Campingaz Regulator Kit), so you may want to buy a longer hose.

This takes a different regulator to the Calor Gas 4.5kg Butane cylinder (a 27mm clip-on regulator).