Office of Steam Forum for Model & Toy Steam Gas & Hot Air Engines

Thanks for the replies from the forum brains trust.
I've emptied the refilled cans and tossed them,
Looking on Youtube, there's no shortage of people refilling these disposable primus camping type gas cans using the same method and lots of other different hacks to get them refilled, but better to be safe than sorry and I steam my engines with my Grandchildren.
I don't have any worries using BIX burners with straight propane (from a propane tank) I've run my largest BIX burner on my Stuart 504 boiler for hundreds of hours.



This is an easy way to use the cheap butane canisters and they work out at around $1 each here in Oz and I think the adaptor was around $8 on eBay. The shape of the can is the major hurdle as its not as convenient as the flat sitting primus can.

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