Unblock a Cadac Gas Cylinder!

[Mortymoose]

So obviously, being the kind of person I am, I drink copious amounts of liquor with me mates when we go camping.... I am not a very materialistic kind of guy and inevitably there is going to be fallout after my camping sessions, so much so, that I now possess three Cadac Gas bottles and all three of them "lost" their dust protectors, In all honesty I think we might have used them for a game of drunken strip chequers out in the bush....... Anyhow, Camping season is rapidly approaching and I want to rehabilitate the bottles, but the valves appear to be blocked with a Namibian sand dune...... A technical orientated mate of mine reckons that the bottles are now useless....... and I might as well just purchase new ones..... I disagree......

Now I know all you IT techs out there, with your SUV's and your roof carriers might know how to "fix" the bottles..... Please pray tell.... as the CADAC website just told me to keep the dust cap on..... Yeah right!

 

[Venomous]

the poor sand dunes and gas bottles

 

[Drifter]

Take them to an Afrocx dealer, they can service them for you.

 

[Segg]

I'm not following you, is there sand trapped in the threads where you screw the pole in?

 

[Electric]

Do not fiddle with a gas bottle.
It's not worth your life.
A friend of mine lost his brother because some poepol was fiddling with a gas cylinder.

 

[pulling wire]

Post your problem over here. www.4x4community.co.za

 

[ToxicBunny]

Go to your local Gas bottle place.. get them to look at them, or get them swapped out with new full bottles...Do NOT screw with the valves at all on your own.

 

[Napalm2880]

Try give their customer service a call.

http://www.cadac.co.za/index.php?page=customer

 

[Crowley]

copious amounts of liquor with me mates when we go camping....game of drunken strip chequers out in the bush.......

So drunken strip chequers with your mates after copious amounts of liquor...

Are you sure it's sand clogging the bottles?

 

[Goliath]

Take them to an Afrocx dealer, they can service them for you.

What he said!

 

[Mortymoose]

I'm not following you, is there sand trapped in the threads where you screw the pole in?

Sand not in the thread, we have this very fine sand from next to the river, like a powder, that is in the pinhole from whence all gas emanates........

But fear not all, I do not have a local dealer up here, but one of the contracting companies for the mine do all their gas bottles, so I was advised to take it there.......

thanks for all the feedback though......

 

[Musicmp3]

those valves can be bought and installed - no big deal

 

[Electric]

those valves can be bought and installed - no big deal

So you just remove the valve yourself?
And kill someone in the process?

Don't be stupid.

 

[atomcrusher]

those valves can be bought and installed - no big deal

This is the easiest solution .. replace the gas jets (the things with the tiny hole in the end)

 

[TheMightyQuinn]

Blow the dust out...with the gas. Without attaching anything to the top of the cylinder, just give it a few quick spurts of gas. You should do this as a SOP before using any gas bottle out in the field anyway.

If the gas doesn't clear it, it is not dust blocking your valve.

 

[grok]

So drunken strip chequers with your mates after copious amounts of liquor...

Are you sure it's sand clogging the bottles?

What happened in the bush obviously stay in the bush ..

 

[KleinBoontjie]

Just take it to a gas place, they can replace the valve easily. Replaced two of mine a few times during the years.

 

[Aghori]

I am currently imagining MortyMoose in a gas explosion.

Take them to the service guys, don't fiddle around with those cylinders boet.

 

[ToxicBunny]

Don't start the Gas Explosion nonsense please... we don't need Vauxhaul boy coming in here with his "Electricity is better" stuff..