Originally Posted By Jimshaw
I have twice had failures of these cannisters when horizontal. Trouble is that a piece of metal pipe that is supposed to drop to the bottom has a short piece of plastic line in it so that it can drop. If this plastic freezes it can prevent the pipe from dropping. If you cut apart an empty cylinder you will see why. Maybe this was when they were new and they used diffeent plastic tube? Anyway it ran like it was on its last breath when the bottle was full. Its because it was exhaling only boiled off gas not a liquid feed. Shoving the bottle vertically into the snow solved the problem both times. I hope the problem is no more.
Jim
Interesting. Haven't heard of that happening, but I suppose it is possible at really low temps. How cold was it when you were out? Must have been really freaking cold!

Maybe the work around is to set the canister down in the position you want to use it while the canister is still warm. Then, if something does freeze up, no harm done.

HJ
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