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I was in Anaconda in Ballarat this afternoon. I talked to one of the guys in there and his take on it is that as it now stands it is a licensing thing. No one is allowed to sell them across Australia and they are withdrawn from the shelves. Once the licensing issue is sorted he thinks they will be back on the shelves. Maybe individual ones will be withdrawn? (My comment not his). For those that have one you can still buy gas for them. I assume people will be nervous of them going forward and do wonder if something will come into the market to replace them. I bought the last one of the small canister stoves they had in stock while I debate if I will continue to use mine. I have seen one catch fire before ... Maybe they will just push the right cans now and be more strict on which ones have been built to a reasonable quality? Will be interesting to watch as there is not much in that cheap market to replace them with.
This will be useful, but the other stove is simple and flexible to use (even if it might blow my head off!)
Correct a licencing thing as they do not meet safety standards.
The canister can overheat and explode, the seal between canister and cooker doesn't seal correctly, the safety feature in cooker can be faulty. Sorry but after having an experience with one of these things I will never use one again, i'm just glad I have fire fighting experience and had extinguisher handy at the time of my incident.
With some modifications maybe these can be a good cooker but they need more safety features on canister and cooker, this includes any canister product.
@ lucas I cant remember the last time I used one of those cookers,
we did however make a gas ring up that fits the diposable canisters
a few years back, last trip I used my Ghillie kettle, I have since recoed
some old kero Primas stoves that will do the job,
Where that list of brand names gone to ??
If anyone read the stop sale part you'll notice its not from non compliance to AS
but more mis-use as I stated earlier,
I have sms my mates but non of our cookers are on that list
seeing we have had them for ages might be that the newer ones are craps
Last edited by threedogs; 7th March 2015 at 03:36 PM.
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