Marine cookers

[blackbeard]

After about 25 years the cooker on my boat (British Hunter 245), which has given good service up till now, is looking rather tired and the flame failure is all too efficient!
Current cooker is a Plastimo Neptune 2000. Possible replacement is a Neptune 4500, which appears to be a simple drop-in replacement. Does anyone have a view, for or against, the 4500 as a replacement?

 

[Tranona]

Direct replacement - but you may have difficulty finding one as supplies seem to be a bit hit and miss. No real alternative either.

 

[Seven Spades]

The Neptune 4500 is brilliant. We replaced ours about 6 months before we sold the boat and wished we had done it years before. It is a really good unit.

 

[footsoldier]

You are probably better replacing it but - since this is PBO and since you say 'the flame failure is all too effective' - that sounds like a thermocouple could be on its last legs, so it could be a simple and cheap repair. Bit of Googling/ebay checking will lead to loads of oem or generic replacements.

 

[Gixer]

I refurbished the Neptune 2000 on my Hunter. Used parts from here All Plastimo Cookers
It was super simple to do.

 

[nigel1]

Neptune 4500 is a good unit.
Fitted one back in 2013.
Over the last 12 years have had to:
Replace oven door seal (twice). They seem to last about 5 years and then break mid length - lesson learned is to keep a spare onboard.
Replace the gas pipe between valve and grill burner - it developed a pin prick hole at a 90 degree bend. This also led to damage to the insulating material between grill and spill plate (Leisure products sent me replacement insulation free of charge)
Replaced the ignition unit about two years ago.
Think thats pretty reasonable for a cooker on a boat.

After 12 years, it still looks very good, no rust or rust stains.