Butane cooker ban.

[Dot]

OMG now that means that houses etc should be banned as they also catch fire and kill people what the hell is this world coming to??

[RussellB[SA]]

Oooh another pink batt scandal in the wind?


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[Shirley]

Rays Outdoors are still advertising one model for sale in current catalogue.

[Chuck]

Common sense should prevail when using these cookers.

We never use a pan larger than the base on which it sits, never have the pan over the gas bottle when cooking, heat gets deflected down & onto the gas bottle. A big NO NO!

When we have finished cooking... the gas bottle is removed & stored separately from the cooker.

We never, ever, travel with the bottle located/locked in the cooker.

Will probably hang onto the 2 we have.

[Dot]

Just another case of morons spoiling things for the ones with common sense (as usual)

[T1 Terry]

No, I don't think so in this case Dottie, the banned cookers (not all cookers) were defective so they were right in having them withdrawn from sale. No one has said you can't use them, but a check of the banned model numbers to ensure you don't have a dud one wouldn't hurt. I put up the link a few pages back, scroll to the bottom and the list is there.
I'll put the link here as well http://www.fairtrading.nsw.gov.au/ftw/C ... kers.page? scroll to the end, the list is there, as I said before, a few big names in that lot

[Dot]

That was what I was after Terry but had not heard / seen anything to give the right story on WHY the bans were done so now I for one am satisfied (well sort of, CU at GB)

[Shirley]

Just went to the 20% of sale at Super Cheap & they had plenty of canister packs 4 in each.

[Dot]

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This paragraph was interesting.. It is more or less saying the unit is not to blame but the "human way of doing things" has been the main cause. Ours is on the ban list but strangely has the AGA approval stamp on it...And we bought our little one in June 2014. Q/ Why didn't the people doing the original safety checks pick the safety issues up?

What is the background to this issue?

Fair Trading has been concerned about the safety of these appliances due to several incidents of explosions resulting in injury. However it appeared that misuse rather than non-compliance with the Australian Standards contributed to these explosions. In 2014, in light of these incidents, state regulators including Fair Trading worked with two of the gas certifying bodies to re-test these cookers. These tests found the appliances to be non-compliant to the Australian Standards. This resulted in the certifying bodies suspending the approval certifications in February 2015

[T1 Terry]

Now you are headed into dangerous territory Dottie. It's much the same as the imported motorhomes and 5érs that get compliance certificates and gas bottle built in China with all the certification numbers already stamped into the collar before they were actually welded together. One must ask how the gas certification was done by the gas cyl inspector in Aust while the cyl was still being assembled in China........ and how a caravan or motorhome with screws through the mains wiring passed the electrical compliance tests? Or how the fact all electrical work involving 240vac within Aust must be carried out by a licenced electrician and gas plumbing by a licenced gas fitter, yet when a caravan or motorhome is built this work is done by the same unqualified people who put screws through cables and build gas bottle enclosures without vent holes in the floor? I guess the answer lies in how diligently the authorities enforce their regulations and just how much power these people actually have to enforce them.

T1 Terry