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