Hi

Could I ask for any knowledge on which size gas bottle to have for our 1979 Triton? We have bought it without any bottles. I have measured the diameter of where they sit at the front which is approximately 20cm. Looking at the Butane bottle for 7kg and 4.5 kg, their diameter's are over 20cm. Does anyone have an Eriba of this age, if so which bottle do they use?

Many thanks for your help!

KR

Charlotte

Hi Charlotte, I would have thought all eriabs take the same but someone else can confirm. My Triton takes two 6KG Propanes.

Hi Taffy,

Many thanks, maybe my measuring wasn't too accurate!

Sorry, forgot to mention our van is a dutch import, we have a feeling the previous owners were using Campingaz as the dimensions seem closer to 20cm diameter which is what our measured our van to be..

Hi, my triton is a 2008 and takes two of this size/type, although my cupboard is integral whereas I think yours is the external one?.
http://www.calor.co.uk/shop/gas-bottles/...gas-bottle.html

You mention camping gas but i think it is the fixings that differ and if your van is an import then it may be you need change the regulator to take the propane bottles. Hopefully some more experienced will confirm.

Here is an instruction book which I think is across all the touring range. there is a little info about gas but I at a quick glance could see nothing specific regarding bottle sizes.
http://www.325099.co.uk/Eriba.pdf

Also this info is on another web site:
http://www.eribaforum.co.uk/eriba%20amiga/otr_gas.html

Or you could ring one of the dealers such as AL and ask them for advice.

Thank you for your info, I think we'll ring AL like you suggest. Many thanks!

You say you don't have gas bottles to exchange for refill. Be warned .... If you choose campingaz, you may want to check the price of the bottles to get you started they have always been much more expensive then Butane/Propane bottles. Also, Butane/Propane is much more economical to run.

You will have to buy the appropriate regulator for the gas you decide to use.

Don't know if you intend using your van in the winter, but if you are, the other thing to remember is that Butane can freeze with low temperatures...... Propane will not.

We use two 6KG Propane in our Triton.

Jim

If you take a look at the calor gas website, they give the dimensions of all the (bottles) cylinders they sell.

http://www.calor.co.uk/gas-bottles/buyin...hich-gas-bottle

Be warned though, that they cost a fortune the first time, as you have to pay a "refill agreement" to get the bottle.
The rules have changed, such that you cannot swap any bottle out for any other, they are now in lots of different groups, and moving between groups means paying the refill agreement again even though it is the same price.

http://www.calor.co.uk/gas-bottles/buyin...changes-returns

You can swap propane for butane though on the same size.

The 6kg calor lite is very popular (and in a group of its own), but also very hard to get hold of, Pucks tend to use the 3.9kg, as the 6kg is quite heavy on the towbar.

If you pop down the local recycling and speak to the nice men (the traditional "drink") there is a compound full of empty bottles people throw away to go back to the supplier, and they might turn round whilst you collect one. Once you have an empty, you are away.

Don't worry that it isn't all shiny, as long as it is complete, if ever I get one that is reasonable, at the next exchange I get one that looks like it has been in a war zone.

Is it possible to buy an adaptor to ft onto our GOK EN61 regulator, which I presume is fit only for euro bottles, so that it will fit UK bottles or do we need to buy a new regulator?

A new calor type regulator is only about £7. (Don't waste money on ones with a gauge, the gauge measures temperature, and indicates green until the cooker goes out) choose from propane (red- male thread) or butane (blue- female thread or clip-on) to suit the gas in use. I use propane, but you need a builders merchant or proper calor agent to swap the bottles, DIY stores only keep butane and patio gas bottles.

There are plenty of adaptors about, but I don't know which one you need, they look as if they convert a uk regulator to fit a euro bottle to me..

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Don't know if you intend using your van in the winter, but if you are, the other thing to remember is that Butane can freeze with low temperatures...... Propane will not.

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[ The other side to the butane/propane equation, so I'm told, is that butane gives a hotter flame than does propane. So I suppose it's six of one and half a dozen of the other.

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Because we tend to caravan in all weathers, it's been Propane for us since we had a terrible time about 10 year's ago at a CL in Staffordshire (-5), and then, on the same trip, -3 and heavy snow at Moreton-in-Marsh CC site.
Re: Spare bottle for filling: Our scout group, over the year's, have accumulated loads of gas bottles, most of which we never use. I wouldn't be surprised if that's not the case with most groups.

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If you pop down the local recycling and speak to the nice men (the traditional "drink") there is a compound full of empty bottles people throw away to go back to the supplier, and they might turn round whilst you collect one. Once you have an empty, you are away.

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Sound advice. That's what I'd do.

I picked up a full Campingaz 907 cylinder from our local tip for £2 in mid 2014 and have already had three months touring use from the Cadac with it and I reckon it's still about half full. I've also had partly-filled Calor bottles in the past for around a fiver, the last one so I could do a swap at a dealer's for a lightweight propane cylinder for the Eriba.

I noticed in a supermarket in France last month that a refill for a Campingaz 907 was in the region of €21 while a new cylinder was about €50 (Gulp!) so a second-hand cylinder represents a real saving.

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