TAYLOR'S COOKER - LEAKY PIPES

[safrel]

TAYLOR\'S COOKER - LEAKY PIPES

We fitted a new Taylor's 030 cooker during our year 2000 refit. Since then it has had two replacement flexible paraffin pipes (from Taylors), and the current one is now leaking. They begin to leak about halfway along after about eighteen months. The cooker doesn't swing excessively, and there is no friction on the pipe. Has anyone else had this experience, or are we just unlucky?

 

[Caer Urfa]

Re: TAYLOR\'S COOKER - LEAKY PIPES

Hello Safrel
I have the same cooker and being on a motor sailor gets its fair share of bashing.
My paraffin feed pipe is hard copper piped all the way from the tank right up to the cooker and touch wood has been fine.
Great cooker, cheap to run, safe, pain in the A--- to light!
Suggest you consider re-piping with micro bore copper pipe.

Regards
Mike

 

[Malish]

Re: TAYLOR\'S COOKER - LEAKY PIPES

never had a leak in 5 years - are you putting strain on the pipe by twisting it during installation?

 

[KenMcCulloch]

Re: TAYLOR\'S COOKER - LEAKY PIPES

My flexible pipe is of indeterminate age, probably >10 yrs and was not leaking on Saturday. Perhaps the newer ones are of inferior material?

 

[safrel]

Re: TAYLOR\'S COOKER - LEAKY PIPES

Thanks for the ideas and comments.

1. Might not rigid pipe fatigue as the cooker swings in the gimbals?
2. Don't think I'm twisting it unduly
3. Chap in the local suppliers says it looks like a standard hydraulic pipe; if I replace it with something other than a Taylors part, what lining would it have to have to withstand the pressurised paraffin? (I don't really want to lay out £36 for another one that lasts eighteen months)

All ideas gratefully received,
Thanks again.