Early Westfalia Cooker Gas Pipe Olives

[Bilson]

I've got a small gas leak somewhere in an 81 Joker 2 cooker unit.

The fridge was removed about 15 years ago + the burners are ok. The valves also seem good, I did remove some of the pipes, and reconnected them recently, so I'm planning on replacing the olives as a first step.

I'm hoping someone may have done this + found suitable replacements, the only olives I can find are standard copper ones, and I'm not sure if they'd do the trick. These seem like some kind of alloy (the pipework is steel - 8mm).

Any ideas would be much appreciated.

Photo of original olives to be replaced.

[pictonroad]

Pirtek 8mm metric stainless cutting rings, as found here:

http://www.pirtek.co.uk/UserFiles/file/ ... %202_4.pdf


you'll need to cut the old metal away, may need to put some new pipe in if it's not long enough anymore.

Try cleaning up the ld stuff very carefully and using leak detector fluid first, once you start removing pipe you're creating more work.

James

[Bilson]

Nice one, I was getting absolutely nowhere.

I'm hoping to maintain the length by using an ollive pull to remove them, otherwise there will be some work to do.

If they have to be cut, I suppose I could just slightly move the valves back towards the interior panel by a half inch maybe to retain the existing pipework.

I did get some fluid on all the joints, one showed up, the valve was removed, applied sealant and refitted, but there's still a slight mystery leak.

It's somewhere between the first cuttoff valve (yellow) and the rest of the pipework (hob is fine). The leak won't show itself with liquid, but the pressure does drop steadily, very slowly and only by a millibar at a time.

The valves I removed probably went 30 years or so without being disturbed, so I'm hoping some fresh olives might do the trick.

Many thanks for your help.