Spinflo hob and grill - gimballing possible

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The existing cooker comprising hob an oven on my boat is past its best so I'm replacing shortly. As we never use the oven (we use the microwave or the pressure cooker or the slo-cooker) I'm looking at a hob and grill arrangement as I don't want to fork out £500 for something we'll never use. It comes down to either the Spinflo (£160) or a Bainbridge Neptune 4500 (£289). The man at Force 4 said the Spinflo wasn't suitable for gimballing but the Neptune was.
I cannot see much of a difference between them. As I'll be removing a perfectly workable gimballing kit I can easily use that to install the Spinflo. OK, so the Spinflo might not have pre-drilled holes in the sides to fix the gimbals but I'm reasonably proficient at DIY and can deal with that. Equally I know that the fixing needs to deal with the fact that hob/grill set ups don't have a lot of in-built weight below the fulcrum so could be unstable when full pans are put on the hob.
Anybody think of anything else? Does anybody use one of these?

Many thanks
 
Pretty much any hob/grill can be made to gimbal with a bit of imagination. The problem is that it will lack the ballast provided by an oven, so will be very unstable when weight is applied to the hob (by putting pans etc on it). The proprietary way of overcoming this is to add high rise gimbal brackets, which compensate for the lack of an oven. It's an ugly solution.
Another approach (which I've used) is to ballast the base of the grill with a sheet of metal (preferably stainless). It will need to weigh at least a couple of kg. Before going to that trouble, you could use any old bit of scrap to test this approach. For gimbals I used a couple of deck glands, screwed to the facia on each side of the hob, each with an 8mm bolt tapped into a small upstand on the hob.
 
I have the very same Spinflo hob /grill and transferred the gimbals (+ fiddle rail) from the previous old oven/hob. It meant drilling 2 holes in either side panel with a couple of 10mm nuts as spacers. It then fitted back into the original mounts. Sadly, I cocked up with estimating the c of g so it didn't sit level at the first attempt!

The pivot point needs to be quite high - above the burners due to the light weight of the Spinflo.

Ian
 
This is funny,
I now have exactly the same question about this Spinflo hob.
Just wondering how Modulation got on with gimballing it?
Success??

Thanks
Vida
 
On a gimballing conversion that I did to a two-burner camping stove donkeys' years ago I made up two lead weights from a discarded battery. They were like oversized diving weights, approximately 4" x 2" x 1" and I bolted them to the underside of the swinging thing. The friend who bought that Vivacity 20 back in 1995 is still using it.
 
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