Adaptor puncture to screw gas cartridges - safety?

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Adaptor puncture to screw gas cartridges - safety?

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Anyone got any views on this vid?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pptkpueB_PQ

I have such an adaptor.

Used it for the first time recently.

On connecting it for the first time to the puncture cartridge I was a bit alarmed that there was, initially, as I screwed it on, a release of liquid fuel.

Seems to have calmed down now.

When using puncture cartridges with puncture stoves in the past I only ever remember a brief gas burst, not liquid, as I screwed the stove on.

It is possible that as I screwed the adaptor into the cartridge to puncture it I was holding the cartridge horizontally.

Could this have been the cause?

Apart from that specific question I am also interested in folks' general views on them.

I have the impression that they are less available than they were and wonder if anything can be read into this.
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I cancelled that youtube as soon as it started playing adverts at me.

A brief description, or a link to the product (a for sale link or a company link) may be better.
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Not aware that it played ads at me.

Thanks for your reply but i can hardly tap out a transcript of all his words.

If you pop to the end of the vid there is a link to a written review.
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andrew_s wrote:I cancelled that youtube as soon as it started playing adverts at me.

A brief description, or a link to the product (a for sale link or a company link) may be better.


Not the vid's fault, Youtube slaps them on. Hitting "reload" usually gets rid of them.
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Re: Adaptor puncture to screw gas cartridges - safety?

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you can still get the bluet cans but its cheaper to make the valved ones now as well as safer.

I've watched many a scout freeze his fingers to their stove while failing to unwind the spike enough. to justify buying one of the adaptors though you would either need to have inherited a couple of dozen bluets or be touring france I reckon.

I think you just screwed it together a bit funny if you had a liquid leak or the valve just needed a bit of pressure to close it.
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