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Converting a gas cooker to LPG - conflicting advice!

On Monday, August 17, 1998 8:00:00 AM UTC+1, Louise Cooper wrote:
Can anyone help, please? Last year I bought a Stoves gas cooker (mains
gas model), and was told by the shop (small independent) who sold it to
me that, if I should ever move to a house without mains gas, it would be
possible to convert it to LPG.

I'm now about to do just that; (the village I'm moving to has no gas at
all) - and the manufacturers of my cooker tell me categorically that it
*can't* be converted. Or rather, it *could*, but only as a bodge that
would be downright dangerous. Of course they won't explain the technical
details (they seem to think it's classified information); they just
reiterate the "No, No, No" approach.

So the makers say one thing; the specialist supplier says another. They
both have an obvious vested interest in taking their particular stance.
The Corgi engineer who did all the gas work on my present house is
scratching his head and doesn't know whom to believe. He can see no
logical reason why the cooker shouldn't be convertible, but at the same
time, he doesn't believe in taking any chances where gas is concerned.

Does anyone have a definitive answer? The cooker cost a packet, works
beautifully, and I don't want to wave it goodbye unless I absolutely
have to :-(

TIA!
--
Louise Cooper

On Monday, August 17, 1998 8:00:00 AM UTC+1, Louise Cooper wrote:
Can anyone help, please? Last year I bought a Stoves gas cooker (mains
gas model), and was told by the shop (small independent) who sold it to
me that, if I should ever move to a house without mains gas, it would be
possible to convert it to LPG.

I'm now about to do just that; (the village I'm moving to has no gas at
all) - and the manufacturers of my cooker tell me categorically that it
*can't* be converted. Or rather, it *could*, but only as a bodge that
would be downright dangerous. Of course they won't explain the technical
details (they seem to think it's classified information); they just
reiterate the "No, No, No" approach.

So the makers say one thing; the specialist supplier says another. They
both have an obvious vested interest in taking their particular stance.
The Corgi engineer who did all the gas work on my present house is
scratching his head and doesn't know whom to believe. He can see no
logical reason why the cooker shouldn't be convertible, but at the same
time, he doesn't believe in taking any chances where gas is concerned.

Does anyone have a definitive answer? The cooker cost a packet, works
beautifully, and I don't want to wave it goodbye unless I absolutely
have to :-(

TIA!
--
Louise Cooper

Hi
i have read a lot of forums on this lpg conversion and it seems to me that there is only two types of people that say "don`t do it" !!!, there is your bucktooth banker (yes Banker) who is too afraid to wear a condom incase it cuts the blood supply to his..you get idea and then there`s your registered gas fitter who charges you £50 for just for calling and £225.00 for doing the very dangerous job of replacing jets that takes all of 19 minutes, we know the first one is just a jelly and we also know the other one is a robber without a mask who would not help is mother out of a bath of acid if she didn`t pay him

Converting a gas cooker to LPG - conflicting advice!

In article , Sam Plusnet
writes
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says...
I imagine after 15 years Louise now has a new cooker and moved on.
Perhaps you could do the same?

Chortle[1]

[1] Apparently, this word was invented by Lewis Carroll.

Another reason to love her works although I think she could perhaps have
taken more care in her foraging for mushrooms ;-), actually ;-)))))) is
probably more appropriate.

The solution to the late post scenario (and spam and . . .) is, IMO, to
kill file GG posters, the noise to signal is far too great.
--
fred
it's a ba-na-na . . . .

Converting a gas cooker to LPG - conflicting advice!

Brilliant read @ midnight,.. made my day,.. really good laugh,... Trial & Error,.. & gas,... Lolololololol. Oh dear, never mind, pick up your wings as you go through the golden gate,... Late reply ?? What's posted on the internet,.. stays forever,..

Converting a gas cooker to LPG - conflicting advice!

On Thursday, 14 September 2017 00:11:09 UTC+1, wrote:

Brilliant read @ midnight,.. made my day,.. really good laugh,... Trial & Error,.. & gas,... Lolololololol. Oh dear, never mind, pick up your wings as you go through the golden gate,...

Gas/air mixture is a trial & error process, and a standard part of gas work.

Late reply ?? What's posted on the internet,.. stays forever,..

Most doesn't.

NT

Converting a gas cooker to LPG - conflicting advice!

On Thursday, 14 September 2017 01:19:10 UTC+1, wrote:
What's posted on the internet,.. stays forever,..
Most doesn't.

It does when it's those photos of me, the women's rugby team and the inflatable elephant.

It doesn't when I've lost the last copy of an incredibly useful-but-rare something that's too old to be on the internet but not old enough to have been digitised (or even collected) by historians.

Owain

Converting a gas cooker to LPG - conflicting advice!

On Thursday, 14 September 2017 21:38:29 UTC+1, wrote:
On Thursday, 14 September 2017 01:19:10 UTC+1, tabby wrote:

What's posted on the internet,.. stays forever,..
Most doesn't.

It does when it's those photos of me, the women's rugby team and the inflatable elephant.

It doesn't when I've lost the last copy of an incredibly useful-but-rare something that's too old to be on the internet but not old enough to have been digitised (or even collected) by historians.

Owain

Professor Sod really should have shut up. I'm sure things were alright before he came along.

NT

Converting a gas cooker to LPG - conflicting advice!

On Thursday, 14 September 2017 21:38:29 UTC+1, wrote:
What's posted on the internet,.. stays forever,..
It does when it's those photos of me, the women's rugby team and the
inflatable elephant.

I have no memory of writing that but it serves as an example.

Owain