LP Gas refills

Macca70 · Member

LP Gas refills

Bobdown · Guru

Agree Macca70, same at Port Augusta coming home, Mitre 10 only one that did refills.

I have new 9 kg bottles that fit perfect and have 8 years left on life, will swap later, cheaper to refill also.

Cheers Bob

Aus-Kiwi · Guru

Weigh them . Im sure some dont fill them
Out there . Not cheap either . Pays to ask the locals who has to he best LPG . Saved up to $20 .

Relax-n · Guru

When we were in Mildura in May, we were told BCF did refills. We went to the TJM guys just down the road from the BCF shop complex, more industrial area. Bargain at $20 for a refill 9kg.

We have our almost new bottle, which we use when no 1 bottle empties. No 1 bottle can then then be swapped if not able to fill. Havent had too many places that cant get bottle filled, but it is getting harder to find them.

Long Weekend · Guru

One of our 9kg bottles ran out at Shepparton in July. After swapping over the second one we drove down to Geelong where the local caravan park told us that Anaconda do refills. About three kms from the caravan park we left our bottle with them and returned later that morning to find the filled bottle waiting for us. Cost was $19.95!

Not sure how widespread Anaconda stores are although there is one here in Canberra. Haven't enquired whether the Canberra store also does refills.

Murray

Umpie1 · Senior Member

There is a website, gasbottlesrefill.com.au. Enter the postcode or town and you will have the info re gas in the area. You can even add/amend a price on site.

Farmhat · Senior Member

Anaconda and BCF are usually my first go to for gas. They are normally the cheapest around. The Riverdale Caravan Park at Bundaberg were $20.00 for a 9 kilo bottle when I stopped by last week. Joe

The Belmont Bear · Guru

I usually refill my Swap and Go cylinders if they happen to get too close to their inspection date or there is no manual filling available I just swap them.

Cheers

BB

Tones · Veteran Member

I don't know about Android phone users, but if you have an iphone, there is an App available in the App store for Swap n Go which is Australia wide. It works off your current location and tells you where local agents are in your area.

Tones

Cupie · Guru

The Belmont Bear wrote:
I usually refill my Swap and Go cylinders if they happen to get too close to their inspection date or there is no manual filling available I just swap them.
Cheers
BB

Me too, and where I can I sort thru the swap bottles to get one that has a long expiry time left & is the right size. Amazing how many swap & go ones are in fact out of date. I too don't think that they fill them right up.

I rotate my bottles thru the BBQ, gas Pizza oven and van to ensure that I always have two full ones on board when I leave home. I find that BCF are always at a competitive price & they fill them right up. On the road I use the previously mentioned web site to check availability/price.

I got a good deal at Cunamulla recently. The bulk fuel outlet would swap them but for a ridiculous price. The attendant suggested that I go to a fabricator workshop just up the road who did a refill at around $20 cash.

denmonkey · Senior Member

got caught out with a swap and go a little while back,

I went in with a 9kg and a 2kg with intent to have them both filled. the 9kg was a swap and go tank anyway, but with no discernable mark on it, they said they could only swap it.
All good swapped it and filled the 2kg.
Got home to find they had given me a 8.5kg which is shorter and fatter and does not fit on the draw bar of the van.
All good, I had a 9kg on the bbq to throw in, so swapped them around.
Won't be getting caught there again.
so definitely worth checking what they hand you before heading off.

cheers Brett

Craig1 · Guru

$19.95 at BCF Albury this week for a Refill. Anaconda is only 3 doors down, but did not have a price outside, but 3 big bottles for refills.

The Travelling Dillberries · Guru

We find the Wiki gas finder App up to date. Shows refill and exchange sites and costs for Australia.

Phillipn · Guru

Craig1 wrote:
$19.95 at BCF Albury this week for a Refill. Anaconda is only 3 doors down, but did not have a price outside, but 3 big bottles for refills.

Anaconda Toowoomba, refill today $19.95.

The Belmont Bear · Guru

I had a problem last year when I went to fill a swap and go that I had gotten from Bunnings - BCF wouldnt refill it as the cylinder was out of date. As Brett suggested it pays to check the bottle out properly when you do a swap who knows how long they have been sitting around especially in places that they dont have a lot of turnover.

Cheers

BB

Cupie · Guru

The Belmont Bear wrote:
I had a problem last year when I went to fill a swap and go that I had gotten from Bunnings - BCF wouldnt refill it as the cylinder was out of date. As Brett suggested it pays to check the bottle out properly when you do a swap who knows how long they have been sitting around especially in places that they dont have a lot of turnover.
Cheers
BB

I find so many swap & go bottles that are out of date, that I now assume that they must test every bottle as part of their refill process but don't stamp them, thus discouraging us from using the refill option when the bottle is empty. Maybe even a bit like making them more safe by not fully filling the bottle.

This seems like the unethical 'smart' business practices that so many of our modern day companies employ .. perhaps justifying their decision by all sorts of 'clever/slick' marketing, like claiming that to test all bottles provides an even safer product, a process that is made affordable by not going to the extra time consuming step of stamping bottles. All modern day free market place competition BS IMHO.

Perhaps we need yet another regulation requiring that after testing, bottles MUST be stamped (of course I am assuming that this is not currently the case). But then we would hear 'nanny state' screams from the free marketeers amongst us.

End of cynical leftie rant LOL

-- Edited by Cupie on Saturday 7th of September 2019 11:39:32 AM

oldbloke · Guru

There is a web site. gasbottlerefills.com Give you prices in the area. Very handy.

TheHeaths · Guru

Just check dates of the printing on gasbottlerefills.com as like most of the fuel type sites, it relies on input from users.

Just checked Mount Isa, and latest price shown was for 2017.