Latest Calor Press Release on Calor Lite

David,

Thankyou for that link.

I currently have a Calor lite cylinder but as it is full I should not be troubled for a while. I shall run it half way empty and then keep it as the spare and shall use a 3.9kg propane as my main supply. This should be very easy to get a refill for.

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So, if when your Calor lite runs out you can only get another if available, otherwise you will have to take a standard. You can change back to a lite if available at next replacement.

As retailers have already started saying that lites are no longer available (they can't get them from Calor) don't hold your breath on getting a replacement.

Also, how many years away is the "NEW" product designed to replace the lites?

I think i will now exchange our empty calor lite for a normal six  in future as we only use one about every 15months and the £3 premium on lites is a rip off,and i am sure what ever the next generation of Calor lightweight 6kg is there will be another "premium" to give calor more profits, 

There is an option on the web page to opt to take part in research regarding the new cylinder. It says they have already been in discussion with the two Clubs, but I don't know whether that that is to do with supply or what sort of cylinder the replacement will be. Perhaps too early but I will await the Club's pronouncements on that!

David

....perhaps this is one reason why CC have bee reluctant to engage with Merve in producing a sensible 'off gridding'article where one kf the key ingredients for making it pay is the use of a Safefill (or similar) refillable.....

oh, hang on, Calor dont do user refillable cylinders.....

Thanks David. Good article.

So it seems as I understand this announcement that 6kg Lite bottles will be refilled and sent out if they pass a service test, therefore they will always be in supply albeit a lot less. 

I have one full and one running on dregs and wasn't sure what to do about exchange but after reading this I will just refill with a Lite as long as I can.

Interestingly there is no mention of a date for these new bottles but investing £1m seems like a lot of bottles so perhaps the launch is a long way off.

I will keep a record of the statement for future problems.

I seem to recall  being charged a premium for the new Calor lite bottles when they were introduced.  The reason given at the time was to cover the cost of development.  Can we now assume then, that if we are forced to accept one of the older bottles when we exchange, that we will now be given that excess premium money back?

TF

Surely you pay a £2 premium was per exchange so nothing to refund? The older style will be £2 cheaper to exchange so I suppose back to square one?

David

I remember exactly the same thing happened to the calor aluminium cylinders back in the 80's. They were brilliant and lighter than the calorlite. I don't know why they were discontinued.

Thank you for the up to date info David.