Safefill gas bottle
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Looking at the pics, ISTM that the tap merely provides a shut-off on the extension from the POL fitting to the fill point on the bodywork. As it is in effect only an extended pigtail with a gas hookup point, I can't altogether see the need for the additional tap beside the one on the cylinder.
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Well if you don't have the tap/shut off valve, when you disconnect the pigtail from the top of the cylinder a quite large amount of liquid LPG comes out of the pipe at very high pressure which isn't exactly very safe!
As it is with the valve shut, even after several thousand miles of touring, when I reconnected the filling pipe for our next fill-up, the liquid LPG was still in the pipe.
As I wrote previously, this installation was as suggested by the exceptionally helpful man at Gasit.
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Ah yes, of course. I was imagining it would be the same as the connection from the bottle to the regulator.
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The installation and indeed the modification are both perfectly safe, most especially as the cylinder is inside a locker which is sealed safely away from the motorhome interior along with a sizeable drop out hole in the floor.
Initially I had thought of doing a combined pipe arrangement and had discussed it at length with that ever so helpful man at Gasit. We both knew that my initial plan would have worked, however on cost grounds and because I knew it wasn't fail safe resulted in the modification now installed, which is fail safe.
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I apologise if this has been posted before but despite searching I have not found it. Here is a copy of the new Red Guide for filling stations. The relevant page for filling of user owned cylinders is 62.
https://publishing.energyinst.org/__data/assets/file/0005/547862/WEB-VERSION-Red-Guide-18.10.18.pdf
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My post is over 2 months old, Merve, and was correct at that time.
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My local Morrison’s is having a spend £50 and get 10p a litre off. So on Thursday I spend my £51.87 to get the voucher. Only to be told that the vouchers weren’t being printed due to a technical fault, if I went to customer services next day they would issue me with one. Actually I went customer service and explained that I had only spent the money to get the voucher and needed fuel so was pretty cheesed off. Answer came back sorry sir we can’t give you a voucher at the moment, because computer says no, but would sir like a £5 gift voucher as a good will gesture sir would!
Yesterday the car is running on fumes, Safefill in the car. I collect my voucher Mrs Boff fills the car and I fill the Safefill 15 ish litres £8.67 and the car 55 litres. The nice lady kiosk combine the totals so I effectively got another £1.50 off the gas so 8.6kg for just over £7.00 seems a bit of a result.
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Good result Boff. I'm new to this Safefill lark. When we got ours a couple of months ago - went to our 'local' garage (about 5 miles away) that fills them and went away for a week using the cylinder. Just before we went away again the following month, I went back to top it up - just to be on the safe side. Cost me £1.65 to fill it up - and about twice that in diesel to get there and back.
Won't be making that mistake again!
(Before anyone says anything - I bought the SF not to save money on gas but solely to save weight in the van.)
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I think, I’m a slightly heavier user than you. I estimate that this one will be empty mid January. This mainly because I will be using my 10kg Safefill first. I run generally full to empty, although I will fill the new 10kg next week to see me through new year.
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I’m sure that was the case TW. It’s now Sht 37 and it’s published. It makes sense and is now in line with PELG who publish the Red Guide. The relevant sections are posted in my recent OP of New Sht 37 by UKLPG in the How to thrive section
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