I've sworn off the 1 lb bottles exactly becuase of leaking. Scares me.

Now, we carry a little "pancake" tank, and have the hoses and adapter so
we don't need to mess with the little green evils. ;) We have adapters for
our stove, lantern, and Mr. Buddy heater.

Jon

On Tue, 6 Nov 2007, Markus Mumper wrote:

> >
> > <How common is it for these bottles to leak after being refilled? They are
> > meant to be disposable after all, so I doubt that the valves are very high
> > quality. Is the risk that great, or am I just being paranoid?>
> >
>
> FWIW - in about five years I've had two leaky semi-used bottles, one I
> smelled very strongly when opening the plastic bin it was stored in
> overnight and the other I heard leaking in my garage after moving some
> semi-used bottles around. Sort of scarry, I still use the things but I don't
> re-fill them. I also now store them in ventilated areas.
>
> Markus and The Girl ('87 Westy)
>