When I was a kid the local television shopping was handled by a company called K-Tel. If you needed stuff like a pocket fisherman and it wasn’t available in any store - all ya needed was a credit card and a telephone! I actually had a pocket fisherman as a kid and it DID catch fish!
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So I’m sitting here my bed, the dawg is snoring, the wife is farting - and I see this vid. “Holy chit” says I, “I got at least two half full orphan butane cans in my plunder that are hacking me right off! I NEED one!!!” I’d never seen these before!
You too can have this miraculous life saver for only $50.00! By one today!!!
I suppose I shouldn’t be such a dink. For the kids back packing - it makes sense, I guess? I can see them wanting to carry only one fuel bottle rather than two half empty ones. But now that we’re RV campers… I think I’ll just run them and flip them out if they give out while I’m boiling water for coffee or MREs…
I had to laugh at the kids in the comments though… this is probably NOT a good gift for stupid people.
The real trick is filling the small empties from a 20 lb tank. See, I can refill a 20 lb tank for ~$3.00 per gallon, which works out to roughly $1.33 per lb. The small cylinders we have down here (roughly twice the size of what she's holding) are 1 pounders that cost 7 bucks each. So yeah, easily 5 or 6 dollar differential. In AMERICAN dollars. No idea what that equates to in Canadian money.
ReplyDeleteEvery now and then I'll round up about 20 empties and fill them all on the cheap, then go get my big tank refilled for a fraction of what those small cylinders cost.
Yeah with propane it makes sense. My thinking was that if I ever decided to switch to propane… I wouldn’t bother with the little guys at all. There’s adapters for all that stuff now and I’d just run it off the big cylinders anyways. Butane, on the other hand… is a different can of worms…
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