Gas hob gimbal arrangements

[ridgy]

Installing a Tasman 4500 stove that came with a gimbal kit. Have installed it as seems correct on the bolt patterns and sort of looks like the manual.

However it seems quite flimsy, rocks from side to side quite a lot in a way that I have not seen a boat cooker do before.

Does this look right or am I missing something?

I could put spacers in to reduce the sideways gap but then the bolts start to contact and it doesn't swing well.

 

[andsarkit]

I think they are just rather cheap and flimsy. I didn't like the look of them and reused the cast alloy A brackets from my old Vanessa hob.

 

[oldmanofthehills]

Looks ok to me. Does it matter that it swings fore and aft? Certainly I would not reduce its primary ability to rock back and forth, but I might ensure the one on the bulkhead was secure at top and bottom to reduce the fore and aft. The kit I bought for our stove is no better and we cook well enough on the move though we are coastal not blue water so only twice a year are we more than 10 hours from next port

My space is very restricted and my set up can only swing about 15 degrees of heel so I have pan clamps as well. We have 8.5m shoal draft boat - which originally had fixed cooker with poor clamps - so we wont be going out in expected F6 and if we do we will be too sea sick to cook - which is where crisps and dried fruit come in handy

 

[DangerousPirate]

For what it's worth: I bought the very same one and found the whole thing horrible to mount as well. It's better to make your own.

 

[MontyMariner]

You can tame the swing with either something like a 5 to 10mm D rubber ring or bungee cord wrapped loosely around the left gimbal.
Alternatively a V of bungee from the cooker front to rear, the centre tethered to the floor or the side wall.

 

[PabloPicasso]

Make your own from some scraps of wood, or angle grind some thinish staimlnless steel sheet to the shape you need

If you bend up the edges, or put a crease in it'll be plenty strong enough