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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: Homer_Jay on June 06, 2013, 02:28:15 PM
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As much as I use my camper tailer, I have been doing more and more 'car only' trips when I go by myself.
The concerns that I have are the safety of gas/butane in transport and what is the better option.
Personally I do not like the small butane stoves, as I am concerned about carrying numerous tins of butane in the car. Should one of these be puntured (they are not the most robust things) or the 'valve' leaks then there is going to be a problem. A big one at that! But there must be millions of these things running around in cars (I am sure that what the back packers would be doing).
The other option is carrying a small LPG cylinder. Now whilst these cylinders are much more robust, have pressure release valves, ect, are they really any safer than the butane canisters? There seems to be a number of incidents with tradies and gas cylinders in their vans over the years (eg coming out in the morning and the van going bang with the spark of the central locking) as such there is very strict guidelines on transporting them for tradies (must be in a cabinet that vents to the outside).
Obviously with the camper there is no problem,as the bottles sit on the outside. But when I do not have the camper, I need to transport everything in the 4WD (no roof rack).
Whilst I am aware there is always going to be a risk in both, what would be the safer option?
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Get a roof rack?
I'm sure this topic has been covered many times and everyone has an opinion.
Personally I'm happy enough with taking small gas cylinders in the car, with care, but do prefer them on the roofrack for longer trips.
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I have carted a 2KG gas in the back of a station wagon on my various journeys with out issue, I made sure it was upright and tap closed of with the plastic cap on over the valve, and it was at the very back of the vehicle.
With no roof rack you have no real other option
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have a 80ltr lpg tank in spare wheel well in work car thats been there for yrs without incident ;D