The new braided gas tails

[Steve C Cronin]

I have just bought one of the stainless braided connectors for a gimballed gas cooker. It has very smart stainless fittings at each end and flexes well. However it won't twist as easily as the orange rubber pipe it is to replace which concerns me in that it might loosen one of the end fittings. It was made by a very reputable company with all the necessary certification in such fabrications and they made it with ptfe ss braided tube. Anyone any experience of such braided tubes in service?

 

[Ruffles]

I have just bought one of the stainless braided connectors for a gimballed gas cooker. It has very smart stainless fittings at each end and flexes well. However it won't twist as easily as the orange rubber pipe it is to replace which concerns me in that it might loosen one of the end fittings. It was made by a very reputable company with all the necessary certification in such fabrications and they made it with ptfe ss braided tube. Anyone any experience of such braided tubes in service?

Is this for a gimballed cooker? If so how does the pipe run behind the cooker?

On ours, from memory, the pipe fitting and the cooker fitting face the same direction. So the pipe is in a loop. ISTR enhancing this slightly by supporting the pipe with a clip as there was a danger of the cooker catching the pipe if it swung violently.

 

[prv]

Anyone any experience of such braided tubes in service?

Both of our boats have had them, with no trouble. Neither the original hose, nor my replacements.

Neither installation required the hose to twist though; I'm slightly puzzled why yours does.

Pete

 

[oldsaltoz]

One of both ends will spin freely before installation, so the trick is to induce a slight twist in the apposite direction just prior to fully tightening.

Good luck and fair winds.