gas to stove

[miggs]

Howdy

just wanted to rack your brains,i have a twin slider and want to get the gas from the back(under R+R) to the front just behind drivers seat

Now can i just come from the bottle reg in the orange flexible hose through the floor and up to hob??

as finding copper pipe is proving tricky as only find it in 25m coils

cheers

[Ian Hulley]

Using hose would be a bodge and it's not advisable to bodge things where gas is concerned. A 10 second look on ebay ... http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/8MM-MICROBORE ... 231961b4b0

[MidLifeCrisis]

I fould 8mm copper pipe at my local 'Heating and Bathroom Centre' - sold by the metre.

From what I have read, the orange flexi hose is only meant to be used for short lengths (i.e. where you need flexi to attach to the regulator) as it perishes over time so should be replaced every 'x' years.

[miggs]

right this might sound really bad but is this

1/4" to 5/16" £3.69

6mm to 8mm ??

[Dazco]

If you are putting in a new system, make it all 8mm, pipe fittings are easy to get off flee bay. Fittings you will probably need:- 8mm straight compression , 8mm compression to flexi bayonet, jubilee clip to fit flexi onto bayonet. On / off tap to be fixed in line on the copper pipe run.youll also need panel clips to fix the copper pipe. Daz

[miggs]

yes i understand that but my hob is 6mm so need a compression fitting to go from 6mm to 8mm and just need to know if the above fitting is that

[Dazco]

No it isn't. Don't mix metric and imperial.

[miggs]

dont know what to do know as the hob is oldish and i have put new lines in need to connect the two up

[miggs]

thinking about it as the hob is old that must mean the pipe coming from the hob is 1/4 and i got 8mm new lines so got to mix the two

[Dazco]

you can get adaptor fittings from imperial to metric (and the other way round )
Just a case of trawling through the bay of flees

[miggs]

all sorted ripped out all the 8mm and put in 5/16 with fittings