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Beaker wrote:The hob formed an inportant part of my space saving plan, so I went off piste with this.
After twenty years of estate car and tent camping in Europe, especially Scandinavia, I got thouroughly sick of gas. I have a very similar gas hob to that, and it works fine - but only on Campingaz. They won't work on higher pressure gas bottles. With all the problems of trying to find a replacement bottle when you run low (You are fine in France but screwed most other countries) I looked at alternatives. I considered LPG, but again it's a space hog, and you still need to track down filling stations that have it.
Instead I have opted for a Swedish Origo dual alcohol burner - the yachtsman's favourite. It's made to run on bottles of Bio-ethanol, which is available in just about every petrol station shop, camp site shop, camping store and supermarket on the continent. It will run on British meths if neccessary, but that smells pretty bad, so best avoided. Bio-ethanol is an easy score off ebay these days, and more and more UK camping shops stock it.
Instead of a dirty great heavy gas bottle, you only need a few half litre bottles of Bio-eth, that can be easily stored behind the panels and off you go. Admittedly it is a more expensive option to begin with, but I'll cut corners elsewhere.
Here's the stove:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dometic-2-Burn ... B002BVYK16
tmm wrote:Beaker wrote:The hob formed an inportant part of my space saving plan, so I went off piste with this.
After twenty years of estate car and tent camping in Europe, especially Scandinavia, I got thouroughly sick of gas. I have a very similar gas hob to that, and it works fine - but only on Campingaz. They won't work on higher pressure gas bottles. With all the problems of trying to find a replacement bottle when you run low (You are fine in France but screwed most other countries) I looked at alternatives. I considered LPG, but again it's a space hog, and you still need to track down filling stations that have it.
Instead I have opted for a Swedish Origo dual alcohol burner - the yachtsman's favourite. It's made to run on bottles of Bio-ethanol, which is available in just about every petrol station shop, camp site shop, camping store and supermarket on the continent. It will run on British meths if neccessary, but that smells pretty bad, so best avoided. Bio-ethanol is an easy score off ebay these days, and more and more UK camping shops stock it.
Instead of a dirty great heavy gas bottle, you only need a few half litre bottles of Bio-eth, that can be easily stored behind the panels and off you go. Admittedly it is a more expensive option to begin with, but I'll cut corners elsewhere.
Here's the stove:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dometic-2-Burn ... B002BVYK16
Beaker would something like this pass with the dvla?
Beaker wrote:That woodworking is awesome mate, way above anything I could hope to achieve!
Do you mean a slot cutter router bit like this?
transit-town wrote:Anymore progress??
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