Flexible gas line to cooker

[Peter]

Where can I get one of these. The only one I know off are the flexible gas lines I've used to a domestic cooker in my kitchen, can get from my local builders merchants. Are these OK, or is there a different type of flexible gas line to be used for boat cookers?

Peter

 

[oldharry]

Try your local caravan shop. Flexibles can be rubber tube, which needs replacing every 3 years, or flexible armoured hose, which is better, but whose condition can not be so easily checked as it ages.

They are smaller diameter than the flexibles for domestic cookers.

Caravan shops are an excellent resource for general 'leisure' items - without the 'marine' price weighting! Light fittings for example in my local swindlery at £20, same thing at the caravan shop, £14.00, and a cheaper version for £9.00!

 

[rogerthebodger]

bes do all kinds of flexable gas pipe

 

[Danny]

It needs to be marked BS3212 Pt2 and you should also keep the length as short as possible while allowing for the cooker gimballing. Hopefully there's an isolating tap at the end of the fixed pipe (if not, there should be!).

 

[Bilgediver]

These are available in many Swinderlies as well as places such as Calor Southampton who are good for all the fittings and advice.

The hoses come in various sizes such as 1/4 5/16/ 3/8 bore and you can get cut to length rubber hose or fixed lengths of stainless sheathed flexible pipe which come with a small length of tube fixed at each end to fit in compression fittings.

The hose should be date stamped and BS marked as stated earlier.

You can find details on The Calor Southampton Page

 

[VicS]

[ QUOTE ]
Flexibles can be rubber tube, which needs replacing every 3 years

[/ QUOTE ] I thought it was 5 years (and 10 years for regulators.)

 

[Topcat47]

It is, which is why they are datestamped. Cooker hoses need to be armoured if the cooker is gimballed, and (from memory) have to be 1m long or less.

 

[Niander]

In an ideal world eh!.....