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OT: Camping gas cartridges.
« on: September 07, 2020, 07:15:33 PM »

I know a lot of you are campy types, - I have a question.
I've got an old tent heater that uses a C200 Camping Gaz cartridge.
As these C200 cartridges are now obsolete, I wondered if the new C206 cartridges would be compatable?

Cheers! :tiphat

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Re: OT: Camping gas cartridges.
« Reply #2 on: September 07, 2020, 08:56:08 PM »

Clearing out the shed a while back I found an original "bluey" cartridge at the back of a shelf, unpierced but empty..... it had rusted through ! 
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Re: OT: Camping gas cartridges.
« Reply #3 on: September 07, 2020, 09:26:48 PM »

C206 will work in place of a C200. How is the rubber grommet that seals the valve to the cartridge? They can perish with age, in which case you might get a leak when you pierce the valve into the new cartridge.
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Re: OT: Camping gas cartridges.
« Reply #4 on: September 07, 2020, 09:29:26 PM »

I remember looking into this some years ago having been caught out with a stock of the wrong kind, although they looked the same size.
I think I recall that one of the sizes differed in being very slightly shorter, which could be made up using a circle of plywood of the right thickness underneath the cylinder. I can't remember which one was the shorter.
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Re: OT: Camping gas cartridges.
« Reply #5 on: September 07, 2020, 10:31:03 PM »

Thanks for the interesting replies, I'm going down the screwfix route first and hopefully I won't blow myself up in the process.
 - cheers Stuart.
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Re: OT: Camping gas cartridges.
« Reply #6 on: September 08, 2020, 08:08:16 AM »

Thanks for the interesting replies, I'm going down the screwfix route first and hopefully I won't blow myself up in the process.
 - cheers Stuart.

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Re: OT: Camping gas cartridges.
« Reply #7 on: September 08, 2020, 08:09:44 AM »

Why would you want to heat a tent?
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Re: OT: Camping gas cartridges.
« Reply #8 on: September 08, 2020, 09:00:38 AM »

So that you can go to sleep with it on and wake up to a real fire - or not wake up to the carbon monoxide/dioxide mix if you tent was really well sealed.
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Re: OT: Camping gas cartridges.
« Reply #9 on: September 08, 2020, 09:14:58 AM »

A quick search online reveals that with a gas heater in a tent, you stand a good chance of you waking up dead.
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Re: OT: Camping gas cartridges.
« Reply #10 on: September 08, 2020, 09:45:47 AM »

I know a lot of you are campy types, - I have a question.
I've got an old tent heater that uses a C200 Camping Gaz cartridge.
As these C200 cartridges are now obsolete, I wondered if the new C206 cartridges would be compatable?

Cheers! :tiphat


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I leave mine on all night when it's really cold. Exhaust extension to the outside. This will save you from waking up dead..

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Re: OT: Camping gas cartridges.
« Reply #11 on: September 08, 2020, 09:49:34 AM »

Or a better sleeping bag ?

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Re: OT: Camping gas cartridges.
« Reply #12 on: September 08, 2020, 11:00:01 AM »

Or a better sleeping bag ?



The dog gets in mine with me when it's cold. Just like see does at home in the bed.
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