Warrior35
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I want to gimble my Plastimo Atlantic cooker and have bought the kit to do the job. Not wishing to reinvent the wheel...advice sought on how to go about it.
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How to gimble?
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freebird1
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Is it a replacement for an old cooker? Any chance of converting the old mountings?
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freebird1
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Is it a replacement for an old cooker? Any chance of converting the old mountings?
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Warrior35
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The cooker is currently bolted down. I have bought gimbles appropriate to this model and simlpy need to site them. The cooker will not be able to pivot freely because it is boxed in on 3 sides ie there will be an angle of heel(probably about 45 deg) beyond which the cooker will not swing. Perhaps, because it is boxed in I should not gimble it. Just need to get the thinking thought through.
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freebird1
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I imagine most cookers can't gimble far in one direction for exactly that reason. It won't be an issue anyway unless you want to heel to 45 degrees! I take it it is already aligned fore and aft. I've seen some bolted in across the beam.
It should then be a case of choosing the height (unless the brackets have already decided that for you) and adding some flexible hose if it is not there already.
Once done, you will need to test it see if it will gimble naturally or if you need to weight the base to encourage it.
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It should then be a case of choosing the height (unless the brackets have already decided that for you) and adding some flexible hose if it is not there already.
Once done, you will need to test it see if it will gimble naturally or if you need to weight the base to encourage it.
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Mirelle
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You must gyre before you gimble!
"'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe..."
Seriously, the cooker takes a LOT more space to gimble than you would imagine.
Taylors provide a very good handbook on all this with their cookers, but since you've bought another make here goes:
The gimble pivots should be near the top of the stove, obviously, but not, usually. right at the top. You don't want the cooker to develop a period of oscillation that matches the boat's roll or it will throw everything off!
You do need quite a bit of weight at the base - the more the merrier, really.
Make sure that the flexible hose can move easily without becoming trapped by the cooker at any point.
Line the entire recess with sheet stainless.
<hr width=100% size=1>Que scais-je?
"'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe..."
Seriously, the cooker takes a LOT more space to gimble than you would imagine.
Taylors provide a very good handbook on all this with their cookers, but since you've bought another make here goes:
The gimble pivots should be near the top of the stove, obviously, but not, usually. right at the top. You don't want the cooker to develop a period of oscillation that matches the boat's roll or it will throw everything off!
You do need quite a bit of weight at the base - the more the merrier, really.
Make sure that the flexible hose can move easily without becoming trapped by the cooker at any point.
Line the entire recess with sheet stainless.
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Skyva_2
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We are just replacing a Plastimo cooker. The gimbals are a different spacing to the old ones, so it amounts to fitting a new one.
It will gimbal about 4o degrees, and has two mounts with a 'stop' above each one to prevent the cooker falling should we ever be inverted. (Perish the thought!)
Armoured hoses come in two lengths - 0.5 metre or 1 metre. You just need to get the spacing right on the mounts, at the right height, and the cooker will drop in. The fit the stops. The Calor gas shop in Southampton has a useful web site, just Google for it.
We have a bolt on the front to stop the cooker gimballing when out of use or in harbour.
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It will gimbal about 4o degrees, and has two mounts with a 'stop' above each one to prevent the cooker falling should we ever be inverted. (Perish the thought!)
Armoured hoses come in two lengths - 0.5 metre or 1 metre. You just need to get the spacing right on the mounts, at the right height, and the cooker will drop in. The fit the stops. The Calor gas shop in Southampton has a useful web site, just Google for it.
We have a bolt on the front to stop the cooker gimballing when out of use or in harbour.
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