Thermacell

[osage outlaw]

Does anyone refill their thermacell butane cartridges or pads?  I've been watching youtube videos on how to do it.  I tried it on a fuel cartridge tonight and it worked.  I had to sand down the tip of the refill nozzle and use a rubber band as a gasket.  It will be a lot cheaper to refill them instead of buying new.  I will start saving the old pads and soak them with the repellant. 

[Pat B]

My friends in the club in GA I occasionally go to told me a few weeks ago that they do refill their Thermocell fuel canisters with butane used for cigarette lighters. I think.

[Danzn Bar]

Did you drill out the check valve?

[Pappy]

Sounds like a good thing, I just use them enough to make it worthwhile. Haven’t turned one on this year. Pappy

[osage outlaw]

I didn't drill out the check valve.  I used knocking pliers to pull that brass nipple out.  Then I screwed a drywall screw into the one way check valve that's under the brass nipple a few turns.  It pulled right out.  I replaced the nipple with some superglue around it.  It took me a while to get a good fit with the refill nozzle.  It was to big.  I had to sand it down to get it to fit. 

[mullet]

Yea, we've been doing it since they came out. We just pulled the brass off, drilled the plastic a little bigger. Then cut a round piece of leather to put on the Butane refill bottle nozzle for filling lighters. With the leather it will spray to the side and not in your face when refueling. And we take the big bottles of yard mosquito spray and soak the pads in them.

[Hawkdancer]

Real neat idea!  Hopefully, I won't have to use it 'til next year, we got a hard freeze headed our way!
I still have to get familiar with the equipment, and learn how to use it.  Thanks for the post.Hawkdancer

[PEARL DRUMS]

I believe the original pads have citronella on them. Be careful what you reload them with and I wouldn't suggest getting a whiff of vaporized deet in your lungs. Ill pay the little extra cash for refills and feel better about it.

[osage outlaw]

It's not citronella.   You reload the pads with an insect repellent for livestock.  It's permethrin 10%.

[Pat B]

That's whats in Permanone tick repellent/killer spray for your cloths.

[mullet]

And you can buy the pemethren and permanone at Tractor Supply, concentrated. We use it hunting through our winter season , anywhere from 20 degrees one day till 75-80 that afternoon. A freeze does not kill mosquitos, they have a butt load of them in Maine and Alaska.

[PEARL DRUMS]

Just need the patent to run out so they cant corner the market. Once more mfg'ers start making them it will drop 50% and the fight will be on.

[Eric Krewson]

I have heard that women's  butane hair curlers use the same cartridge as a thermacell at a fraction of the cost.

After reading this thread I took my old thermacell with me on my first deer hunt of the year, after it got hot I had "0" mosquitoes pestering me.

[osage outlaw]

They do fit Eric.  I ordered a 2 pack last week.  Still not as cheap as refilling them. 

[Marc St Louis]

I have heard that women's  butane hair curlers use the same cartridge as a thermacell at a fraction of the cost.

After reading this thread I took my old thermacell with me on my first deer hunt of the year, after it got hot I had "0" mosquitoes pestering me.

Yes but how many Deer did you see