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I just wish they would fill them to the top , they don't seem to last 2 mins , lol .
I get around a month out of mine
You sure it’s not leaking ?
Nah I am taking the pi** , I generally get them from plumbs and when I walk to the counter , I just say make sure its full , they just laugh at me now.
You should take a small electronic scale in with you next time and weigh each gas bottle on the counter.
When they ask what you are doing, just say you are a bit tight and concerned they are hiring the bottles out to folk and later selling the half empty bottles to you.
I just bought a load at £11.32 each, MAPP gas. Local merchants.
I finished a job last week and the old gave me 4 bottles of MAPP he had in his shed for nothing. God knows what he had them for
they are rothysProper old mapp or new mapp substitiute?
Just shows Homebase is decent price for Mapp. If yours includes vat, that is £2.87 a bottle cheaper
I find merchants prices on gas varies.
But noticed B&Q are £15.20 Propane and £21 Mapp.
Does anyone else still use a 3.9kg bottle? I bought one years ago and it’s still going strong. I’ve got a 400g one for little bits that’s convenient but don’t think you can beat a rubber hose for access.
Mate of mine uses 3.9 kg too, I worked with him last Friday, but he was quite keen to snaffle my little super fire when he had to do a bit in the loft!
Does anyone else still use a 3.9kg bottle? I bought one years ago and it’s still going strong. I’ve got a 400g one for little bits that’s convenient but don’t think you can beat a rubber hose for access.
I stopped using the big bottles and old style torch with hose once I got used to SF torch. Still have them though.
You can get an adaptor fitting for the SF torch to use a hose from big gas bottles with usual regulator
I agree.That looks handy.
That looks handy.
Bought a second hand one over 30 yrs ago, with Bullfinch torch, good for burning out lead joints on CI soil stack. Have SF2 for soldering now.Does anyone else still use a 3.9kg bottle? I bought one years ago and it’s still going strong. I’ve got a 400g one for little bits that’s convenient but don’t think you can beat a rubber hose for access.
I bought the brass adapter part for the Roth bottle side and did use it together with the old fashioned long hose and torch.
I do miss using the old torch with hose which was handier than the SF when soldering.
I was able to put the old torch below a pipe between joists etc, pointing flame up, which often cannot be done with the SF with fixed bottle.
Also preferred the button to squeeze to regulate the flame on old torch.
Only time I preffered the old bottle and hose style was on a cold day. Angle the nozzle so you were not going to set the house on fire and leave it running. Soon warmed up a little bathroom.
The amount of times I was up a ladder with the bottle wedged between my knees soldering a prv thinking I'm either going to drop the bottle or fall off.
Memories flooding back now of hooking the old style torch on the top of the bottle, where regulator outlet to hose is and keeping it running for a while in winter in empty freezing houses.
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