Supporting a gas pipe

Stemar

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I need to run a new 3/8 gas pipe from the old location of the gas locker, which seriously interfered with access to the starboard engine to a new location in a transom locker which is suitably ventilated. There will be a roughly2.5m run through the engine bay. Obviously, the pipe needs to be supported regularly, but it needs to be on the outside of the hull, so using screw-in clips seems like a bad idea.

Any reason for not just running it in a length of this, which is self adhesive and even sticks to slightly uneven surfaces like the proverbial to a blanket?
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I need to run a new 3/8 gas pipe from the old location of the gas locker, which seriously interfered with access to the starboard engine to a new location in a transom locker which is suitably ventilated. There will be a roughly2.5m run through the engine bay. Obviously, the pipe needs to be supported regularly, but it needs to be on the outside of the hull, so using screw-in clips seems like a bad idea.

Any reason for not just running it in a length of this, which is self adhesive and even sticks to slightly uneven surfaces like the proverbial to a blanket?
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I think you will find that it looses its grip when warm.
Have you thought of bonding a wooden batten to the hull with CT1 or OB1 and clipping the pipe onto the top of it with the clips in reverse so that it is supported over the whole length and there is no direct weight on the clips?
 

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Bond wooden pads to well cleaned patches of the hull (a hard type of car body filler works well) at the appropriate intervals fix the pipe with p clips screwed to the wooden pads.
 
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