Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen and welcome back to the channel. So I am going to demonstrate to you today how you can actually refill one of these gas cans of stovs when these have been depleted. Alright guys, so I'm going to go out on a limb and presume everyone is very familiar with this type of stove. This is the solo gas can of stov and these are extremely efficient, they're very easy to use and when you need to buy a water fast, this is the stove we go to. Now unfortunately guys there is a downside with these types of stovs and that is when we come to purchase the gas canisters at Fuulam. This one in particular is a common C100 Xtreme 2. This is a mix, a propane and butane mix and this is a 100 gram fill canister. This is the smallest one to do for these stovs and when I purchase this for a single unit it cost me £10 and £50. Now when you factor in the amount of boils you're going to get from this tin, you'll be looking to get 60 or 70 normal boils and from testing I've done. When that's depleted that's another £10, £50 out your pocket. Now there is a way around that and I'm going to demonstrate that today. So this guys is the original gas canister I used to demonstrate the transfer of Fuulam. I've had this one for about three years now and this has been refilled many times using the method and I'm going to demonstrate to you. So this is a 230 gram power gas by Primus and this was a propane and I saw butane mix. Now the gas we're going to transfer into this today isn't a mix, it is solid butane and that's these ones here. Again you're probably very familiar with these, if you do go camping these are used in your flat cookest stovs that you'd take camping and a pack of four of these butane canisters can be had for as little as £3 over in the UK if you shop about. This is a brand called Five Star, doesn't really matter what the brand is and they all do the same job. The only important thing is when you pick these up just make sure they have the bayonet fitting on the top just like that one. Now guys in order for us to transfer the gas from the donor to the empty canister we will require this small brass valve. This is a one way valve with a little lowering on the top as you can see there and a small brass nipple. I will leave the link down in the description of where you can put this up. This is the cheapest method of doing this and again this only costs a couple of quid. First of all we're going to wear the canister and that gives us a weight of 108 3 grams. I don't forget this is a 230 gram fill and as you can hear there is very very little gas in that so that is probably just the weight of the tin itself. Second step we're going to do with this tin is place that in your freezer drawer for at least 10 minutes. So while the canister is chilling in the freezer we're going to complete the next step which is very easy we're going to set the brass adapter and just place that on the bayonet like so. So now the empty canister is nice and chilled we're going to set the donor can and simply slip the nipple into the top and press down. Just give that 30 seconds You can probably hear that gas transferring now and then here we are to just remove the top can with the bayonet and then we'll set the scales again and we'll give that canister another way. So we were at 108 3 grams an hour to 216 grams if you can see that there and we're just going to continue to its fill weights. So again the fill weight of this red canister the primus canister is 230 grams so as long as you don't go over the 390 grams full weight of the tin operation should be normal and safe. Like I said I've used this canister many many times it's had many refills over at least three years and I've experienced no explosions obviously because the canister and I am still here and this is a much cheaper way than going out and rebuying canisters and it keeps these canisters out of landfill as well. Now I will also just mention while we're here I had a few comments on my last video when I uploaded that that people were trying this and they were getting all over with it now some people on this one it doesn't really happen but on the smaller canisters when I've refilled these as you can see that's a refill I've refilled this one as well. Sometimes when you press it down you'll get no noise at all. All you need to do is make sure the nipple seated directly in the canister and then if you don't hear anything just give it a bit of welling and push it down a bit more. and there we have a fill weight of 303 grams I'm going to leave it there and what I'll do is I'll put a burner on top and I'll give you a quick demonstration of it working. And now to demonstrate to you guys a fully operational fully refilled gas canister we're going to use my very new birthday present. Got this today and this is the Windmaster 4 canister stove from Soltel. Absolutely phenomenal stove I've just boiled two pots of water in my titanium mug in two minutes and 26 seconds that is ridiculous I thought my little globe trotter mudded stove was quite what that is blazing absolutely rapid so less talking let's show you this working there we go guys absolutely faultless working absolutely fine and that's your luck guys but before I go a couple of pointers so make sure you chill your empty canister in the freezer for about 10 minutes before you start this it just allows the donor canister to transfer its fuel in a liquid state so I believe also if you're starting this project from scratching you do have a brand new full canister of gas weigh that first before you use it and set the weight down and then when you've depleted the fuel inside weigh that again and the difference between them two weights will be your gas fill don't overfill the gas don't overfill the canister of gas I've never done it myself so I can't tell you what happens but from what I've read it will just not work or it will just splutter gas out so I'll just keep it below the fill percentage by about 5 10% I ladies and gents I hope you've enjoyed this countertop tutorial on request I will do a bone comparison between a full canister of the original gas and a refill I can tell you now bone times are negligible the mix probably gets ahead by about 12 seconds on my previous tests but if you want to see that just give this shout down in the comments and I'll make it happen thank you very much for your time thank you for joining me until the next one you stay safe and as always stay crafty see you again guys bye bye