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Propane Cylinder

Postby Woodster » 14 Jun 2021, 20:39

I’m getting a gas fired oven for the garden and apparently it comes with a Patio gas fitting. I already have a couple of normal Propane cylinders and don’t want to buy another type. I’m wondering if I can just take the clip on patio gas connector off the hose and fit a normal screw on propane regulator? Anyone know.
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Re: Propane Cylinder

Postby novocaine » 14 Jun 2021, 20:51

Yes. Check the pressure is correct and you are good to go. Think from old memory it should be 37mbar.
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Re: Propane Cylinder

Postby 9fingers » 14 Jun 2021, 21:02

Is Witch Burning permitted these days? :lol:

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Re: Propane Cylinder

Postby Harv-53 » 14 Jun 2021, 21:03

Woodster wrote:I’m getting a gas fired coven.

Hi woodster
Are you mainly burning witches ? If so can i send my wife up for you to test it out :lol:

She is known as Nanny witch, you don’t want to know the grief I get about teaching my granddaughter to call her that

Seriously.
You need to check the warranty, you may invalidate it if the supplied regulator is crimped on and you need to cut it off to change it over.
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Re: Propane Cylinder

Postby Woodster » 14 Jun 2021, 21:26

OMG, the predictive text strikes again! :lol: Yes, its rated at 37 mb and they sell complete regs and hoses for about a tenner on Amazon so that should be fine?
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Re: Propane Cylinder

Postby 9fingers » 14 Jun 2021, 21:34

Woodster wrote:OMG, the predictive text strikes again! :lol: Yes, its rated at 37 mb and they sell complete regs and hoses for about a tenner on Amazon so that should be fine?


plus the crimp fittings. down at these sort of hose diameters, jubilee clips dont work too well as the screw mechanism is a significant portion of the circumference and so it closes down to a D shape.

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Re: Propane Cylinder

Postby sunnybob » 15 Jun 2021, 05:03

Cor! another specialist subject :o :lol:
Jubilee clips work fine on the orange gas hoses. I know, I used to service 3000 mobile gas heaters every year for 6 years. One year we scrapped 3000 and bought another new 3000. So that was 6K that year :shock: :shock:
Every one of then was secured with jubilee clips each end of the hose.
The correct gas hose should be bright orange, with lots of writing down it, including a "use by" date of a month and a year.
It is actually illegal in the UK to use a hose once it has passed its date.
If you have the blue / grey mud hut shaped regulator with a plastic flip lever on top, they should have a year code stamped into them, usually up inside the connector (2 digits). Again, that is a dispose by date. 8-)
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Re: Propane Cylinder

Postby sunnybob » 15 Jun 2021, 10:14

Just a thought here... check the gas group that the new appliance is rated for, against the other appliances you are using.
If the gas group (G number) is different, the jets will give unreliable combustion, especially on low flame.
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Re: Propane Cylinder

Postby novocaine » 15 Jun 2021, 10:51

sunnybob wrote:Just a thought here... check the gas group that the new appliance is rated for, against the other appliances you are using.
If the gas group (G number) is different, the jets will give unreliable combustion, especially on low flame.


patio gas is propane Bob, it just comes in a different cylinder with a stupid fitting, so that people don't leave the tap open and blow themselves up.

I thought it was propane/butane mix (we used to call it winter gas), but a quick check suggests not.
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Re: Propane Cylinder

Postby Woodster » 15 Jun 2021, 10:59

sunnybob wrote:Cor! another specialist subject :o :lol:
Jubilee clips work fine on the orange gas hoses. I know, I used to service 3000 mobile gas heaters every year for 6 years. One year we scrapped 3000 and bought another new 3000. So that was 6K that year :shock: :shock:
Every one of then was secured with jubilee clips each end of the hose.
The correct gas hose should be bright orange, with lots of writing down it, including a "use by" date of a month and a year.
It is actually illegal in the UK to use a hose once it has passed its date.
If you have the blue / grey mud hut shaped regulator with a plastic flip lever on top, they should have a year code stamped into them, usually up inside the connector (2 digits). Again, that is a dispose by date. 8-)


The oven actually comes with the hose separately in the box - complete with jubilee clip! :D
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Re: Propane Cylinder

Postby sunnybob » 15 Jun 2021, 13:03

novocaine wrote:
sunnybob wrote:Just a thought here... check the gas group that the new appliance is rated for, against the other appliances you are using.
If the gas group (G number) is different, the jets will give unreliable combustion, especially on low flame.


patio gas is propane Bob, it just comes in a different cylinder with a stupid fitting, so that people don't leave the tap open and blow themselves up.

I thought it was propane/butane mix (we used to call it winter gas), but a quick check suggests not.


Many people believe all bottled gas is propane :shock: , or butane :lol:

Cyprus has its very own mix, called, strangely enough "Cyprus gas". All bottles here are filled with the propane / butane mix, because it gets so cold up in troodos, but so hot at sea level, that either on its own causes problems.

While working here I had to convert the entire kitchen equipment from a large Army barracks in the UK which had been shipped out here, running on UK natural gas to our mix. Over 40 pieces of kit all needed new jets and recalibrating.
Oh what fun I had seeing as most it was obsolete before I started :eusa-hand: :eusa-naughty:
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