Taylors 030 Cooker - conversion?

[chinita]

A few months ago I picked up a lovely Taylors 030 paraffin cooker from a German boat in Portugal.

The aim was to fit it on my Vertue - not so much to get rid of the gas system but just because it is such a nice solid bit of kit.

After much thought and fiddling I have decided that the surgery to get cooker and, more importantly, the paraffin tank in place is just too invasive.

I seem to recall that these cookers can be converted to gas but have no source of information.

Before I give up and sell it on, does anybody have any advice/information/suggestions?

TIA

 

[Amulet]

A few months ago I picked up a lovely Taylors 030 paraffin cooker from a German boat in Portugal.

The aim was to fit it on my Vertue - not so much to get rid of the gas system but just because it is such a nice solid bit of kit.

After much thought and fiddling I have decided that the surgery to get cooker and, more importantly, the paraffin tank in place is just too invasive.

I seem to recall that these cookers can be converted to gas but have no source of information.

Before I give up and sell it on, does anybody have any advice/information/suggestions?

TIA

I have one of these. I have a good relationship with it, despite what some people say about them. Puzzled about your comment on the paraffin tank. I would have thought it could fit in about as much space as a gas bottle (though not the same shape). I doesn't need to be near the stove. Mine is in a cockpit locker. Sorry, never heard of conversion to gas.

 

[Tranona]

Likewise my tank is in a cockpit locker. Well worth trying to get it fitted as it is a wonderful bit of kit. Never heard of gas conversions and difficult to think of how it might work - and getting a safe gas installation in a wooden boat is not easy if you are going for a proper locker draining overboard.

 

[Caer Urfa]

I have one of these. I have a good relationship with it, despite what some people say about them. Puzzled about your comment on the paraffin tank. I would have thought it could fit in about as much space as a gas bottle (though not the same shape). I doesn't need to be near the stove. Mine is in a cockpit locker. Sorry, never heard of conversion to gas.

I agree with Amulet, I had a Taylors 030 oven for years with the tank at least six feet away from the oven which worked no problem.

I also have never heard of a gas conversion for a Taylors oven not to mention the cost to do it 'if' it was possible!

Mike

 

[PhilipH]

I have a friend single-handing - Cape Verdes, Brazil, Lesser and Greater Antilles, USA, Colombia and now in Panama. He has just taken out his Taylor's cooker and replaced it with a gas cooker. He looked at the gas conversion route and the cost was not worth it. His cooker is for sale, anybody - collect from Panama.

 

[Wandering Star]

I've got a Taylor's 030. Biggest problem for me is that I end up doing all the tea/coffee making and cooking only because I understand the correct procedures and sequence for lighting it up which takes practice to achieve. Fair enough paraffin is safer than gas from a "accidentally blowing up the boat" point of view, but from a merely "accidentally setting fire to the boat" point of view, paraffin fired cookers are a million times more likely to achieve this result.

I keep meaning to install a gas cooker but just never get round to it though it'll happen one day. I think these Taylor's paraffin cookers are for the same sort of sailor that still uses a sextant and towed log for navigating. Gas sniffers and auto solenoid shutoffs have reduced the likelihood of a gas explosion to an acceptable risk (I have no evidence to prove this statement before anyone asks) and in my opinion paraffin cookers are obsolete in exactly the same way that GPS make the sextant obsolete (I got a sextant too!).

I've never heard of a Taylor's parrafin cooker gas conversion.

Cheers, Brian.

 

[chinita]

Thanks everyone. Sorry for delay in replying, i have been on board doing other stuff with no internet available.

I had not realised that remoting the tank would work as I assumed i was limited to the current length of pipe (which was probably to suit the previous installation).

There is plenty of room for the cooker but none (to the side or below) for the tank. I shall re-visit the problem.