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Offline lloydus67

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Re: Gas bottle refills - anyone do it by weight?
« Reply #50 on: June 05, 2017, 06:22:21 PM »
Quote from: Merts on February 13, 2017, 02:19:13 PM
The bloke behind the counter was wrong.
The Elgas 'Swap n go' site says they will swap any 9kg or 4kg gas bottle, regardless of brand.

http://www.elgas.com.au/swapngo?gclid=CO3Y3JGbjNICFYiTvQodhr4I6A

The guy behind the counter does not work for swapngo and is just a reseller of gas, he refills empty bottles himself (on slow days he will refill your bottle, but at Xmas on swaps as it is silly busy)
I know this as I nearly bought the business


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Re: Gas bottle refills - anyone do it by weight?
« Reply #51 on: June 05, 2017, 08:53:35 PM »
I know the local family servo where I fill up cars and gas are pretty honest, if I take a half full bottle in the will charge be half price where most places will still charge full price
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Re: Gas bottle refills - anyone do it by weight?
« Reply #52 on: June 05, 2017, 09:17:50 PM »
Quote from: Bird on June 05, 2017, 05:01:16 PM
I know.. and dude on swap and go truck while back said they are going to go to 1 size in 9kg and 1 size in 4kg bottles soon.. so will make it harder for all :( unless changing cylinder brackets are cheap

For them to do that would require 2 things to achieve this outcome
1, rationalise all their existing stock including the 3 or 4 in my yard and the other thousands of bottles out in service, achievable yes but would take some time.
2, refuse to except the current practice of owner bottles in all shapes.
Just thought of a 3rd reason, the Bunnings staff along with the Indian servo attendant would need to check the hand in bottles against some form of bottle gauge. I can't see that happening, it is hard enough find staff to help you at Bunnings and the servo attendant normally just gives you the key to the cage for self service as he or she can't leave the service console.
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Re: Gas bottle refills - anyone do it by weight?
« Reply #53 on: June 06, 2017, 08:55:21 AM »
Quote from: lloydus67 on June 05, 2017, 06:22:21 PM
The guy behind the counter does not work for swapngo and is just a reseller of gas, he refills empty bottles himself (on slow days he will refill your bottle, but at Xmas on swaps as it is silly busy)
I know this as I nearly bought the business

I was replying to a comment "The guy behind the counter refused to swap an old bottle with no swap and go sticker on it." so you will have to forgive me for assuming it was a 'swap n go' outlet.  :laugh:
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Re: Gas bottle refills - anyone do it by weight?
« Reply #54 on: June 06, 2017, 11:09:51 AM »
Dunno about you lot but I don't care if my 8.5 is still quarter full on the road and there's a Bunnings handy and I know I'm not going to make it to the next one on the road and I may be paying up to $45 for a fill even if it's empty. Filling is a service and not just the price of the gas and I had to wait a fair while at busy Nullarbor for the roustabout to get back and fill my Swapngo when I'd muffed the hot water trick (getting old). Stuff that crawling under the Jayco bed with it mounted on the drawbar after you've boiled the kettle still set up.  I want to do it when the Jayco is packed up anytime and not get it wrong  :cup:
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Re: Gas bottle refills - anyone do it by weight?
« Reply #55 on: June 17, 2017, 04:47:54 AM »
Just buy a composite bottle, transparent so you can see what's left and 50% lighter. http://www.chsmith.com.au/Products/Ragasco-Composite-LPG-Gas-Bottle.html
Only problem is the price  >:(
Quite popular in Europe though and the inlaws have them in their motorhome.
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