lightweight gas refill

Hi acerhead,I usually get my red 6 kg propane gas refills in the hardware shop in Banbridge,the shop is just down from downshire camping,go to the roundabout take the first left and you will see the shop on the right just around the corner.

The calor dealer in Lisburn usually has the red 6kg ones, I got one during the week at Hagans and they also had the new lightweight ones, but they use a different pigtail to the red one.

I also use 6kg propane and have difficulty getting refills I live in Bangor and can get them in Bangor Fuels the only other place I found was a filling station in Bushmills. I recently ran out while in Galway and tried at least 20 places between Galway and the border with no joy, I was told on more than one occasion "that is an English fitting "so I have come to the conclusion these bottles are not available in ROI.
Just to clarify we are taking about the same bottles mine are Red 6kg propane with a female screw fitting on the bottle.

I have looked at the calor.ie website and the size of cylinders available are as follows, ROI - propane9kg light weight, 11kg and 19kg (larger available but wont fit in motorhomes!) NI - propane 3.9kg, 6kg, 9kg lightweight, 11kg, 13.15kg (larger also available)

So the only comon bottles north and south are the 9kg light weight and the 11kg

This would mean for me to have a common one which I could get anywhere would involve swapping over to the 9kg if it fits as well as a new pig tail to fit the cylinder. I dont know about everyone else but although my van is suposed to take 11kg bottles they wont actually fit through the door as I checked the dimensions last year when I got the van, so need to find out the dimensions of the 9kg lightweight and check that out.

i have a 6kg, (which i fill myself so dont need replacement)
they are slightly lower as the top collar is lower.

big difference in weight tho, very much lighter.+

Hi All,
just recently at a national rally in Limerick, the ROI southern sales rep for calor (Tony) launched a new aluminium lightweight 6kg propane bottle. The catch is its a different fitting yet again, it's the patio heater type,
If we had had 40 of the English propane 6kg bottles we would have sold out as the weather was cold and I suppose it was the first rally of the year for many, anyway total number of bottles in Limerick area with English/ female thread = 4
We had to send to Cork for 3 and cleaned them out also!!

I wonder if we can get a set of adapters to fit the regulators for all of the bottle types? Spanish, French, etc. And if it came up on Dragons den in the near future,,,,,,,,, would we have to get a trained specialist/qualified engineer to fit them?

rob.