/diy/ - Do It Yourself

To dispose of the blue bottles and camp bottles, scrap yards will take them if they have holes cut in them. What I do is save them up, take them up to my back forty, line them up, light a campfire behind them and shoot them with my .223 with 175 grain from 100 yards.

Sometimes, they launch a dozen feet or so, other times, nothing.

You can refill them with the adapters from Amazon, but you have to have tubs of ice water to control the heat, turn the 20 pounder upside down (to send LP into the blue bottle, not gassified propane) and should have the adapter connected to a 5 psi BBQ regulator.

It's a PITA and disposables are cheap. Plus it makes for good target practice so I'm ready when the Gub'ment tries to Molon Labe me cache.