Butane without a regulator!

[craiglockwood]

I've recently acquired an old Centaur and have been checking her over. There is a Plastimo Neptune 2000 2 burner and grill in the galley, which ar pretty common. Decided to make a cup of tea so went to locker to turn on the gas to discover the previous owner has been using it without a regulator! Surely, that's not right?

Obviously I will be fitting a regulator immediately, but just wandering if anybody else has come across a boat using butane without a regulator?

 

[Minerva]

How was it connected? Did your kettle boil quickly with a turbo jet flame?

 

[craiglockwood]

just a threaded brass fitting direct to a 4.5kg tank. I haven't lit the rings - even though the promise of faster tea sounds tempting

 

[vyv_cox]

I don't know about your stove but I have owned one of different make in the past that had a regulator built in. Gas at bottle pressure supplied to it.

 

[Graham376]

I don't know about your stove but I have owned one of different make in the past that had a regulator built in. Gas at bottle pressure supplied to it.

Neptune 2000 needs regulator. Suggest checking to see if there's a bulkhead mounted reg further along the line, it may not need the bottle top one.

 

[VicS]

I've recently acquired an old Centaur and have been checking her over. There is a Plastimo Neptune 2000 2 burner and grill in the galley, which ar pretty common. Decided to make a cup of tea so went to locker to turn on the gas to discover the previous owner has been using it without a regulator! Surely, that's not right?

Obviously I will be fitting a regulator immediately, but just wandering if anybody else has come across a boat using butane without a regulator?

The label on the stove should say which gas ( butane or propane) it is designed for and at what pressure.

I have had two camping stoves ( I still have one of them ) which operated at high pressure ie without a regulator, not even a built in one. I would not want to have used them on a boat though.

I recommend that you read the section of the Boat Safety Scheme relating to LPG installations to get an idea of what is acceptable (mandatory for inland waterways craft)

https://www.marinesurveys.net/BoatSafety/Guideline-chap7LPG.pdf

 

[Refueler]

Interesting as I seem to recall that regulator to bottle has a left hand thread ... to avoid this sort of DIY mess ...

 

[KevinV]

I've seen remote regulators on boats - it keeps a bit of kit that doesn't like corrosion out of the gas locker.