Bullfinch BBQ point. (1 Viewer)

[hilldweller]

I think I may have boobed. I have fitted the Bullfinch BBQ point in the fibreglass skirt of the Swift, next to the Gaslow I fitted earlier. The Gaslow filler is piped with their great thick flex.

I was about pipe Bullfinch with plastic coated 8mm copper but then the penny dropped, this panel is a little flexible and I think over time the copper will harden and snap.

So plan B: is two Fullham gas connectors, 8mm copper to rubber gas pipe and a short loop of low pressure gas pipe to allow for the vibrations in the skirt goin to work ?

Either that or I start looking for somewhere rigid and cut another 60mm hole.

Any advice folks.

 

[tonyidle]

8mm nylon fuel pipe? Longer lasting & accepts compression fittings.

 

[hilldweller]

Here is just the job mechanically if it is truly flexible.

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[hilldweller]

BINGO - I think, anyway I've ordered one.

 

[andy63]

I think I may have boobed. I have fitted the Bullfinch BBQ point in the fibreglass skirt of the Swift, next to the Gaslow I fitted earlier. The Gaslow filler is piped with their great thick flex.

I was about pipe Bullfinch with plastic coated 8mm copper but then the penny dropped, this panel is a little flexible and I think over time the copper will harden and snap.

So plan B: is two Fullham gas connectors, 8mm copper to rubber gas pipe and a short loop of low pressure gas pipe to allow for the vibrations in the skirt goin to work ?

Either that or I start looking for somewhere rigid and cut another 60mm hole.

Any advice folks.

Hi brian... my sdvice..youer overthinking it
Put a little brace on the skirt to stiffer it up if you think it needs it...
Works for the lpg external fills im sure it wil support a bbq point..
Andy..

 

[hilldweller]

Hi brian... my sdvice..youer overthinking it
Put a little brace on the skirt to stiffer it up if you think it needs it...
Andy..

You may well be right but can't take chances with gas. I never thought of a brace.

Copper is funny stuff, it work hardens, bend it and it goes stiffer and stiffer then breaks. I've witnessed this so many times with copper wires, I'll sleep better with some flexible pipe.

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[tonyidle]

Although the bbq point won't really flex due to a connected bbq it will move with the skirt when filling with LPG so it's worth taking precautions. Your solution is perfect.

 

[andy63]

I was saying that tongue in cheek... it seems a sensible precaution to take...
Andy..

 

[hilldweller]

I was saying that tongue in cheek...
Andy..

Well I can't help it if you talk good sense with your tongue in cheek.

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[hilldweller]

it will move with the skirt when filling with LPG

I was really thinking of the roads and how all the pots and pans leap around.

It's fitted into 5mm of fibreglass, it won't move far but just a little movement mile after mile might snap it

 

[tonyidle]

I was really thinking of the roads and how all the pots and pans leap around.

It's fitted into 5mm of fibreglass, it won't move far but just a little movement mile after mile might snap it

It's possible l suppose but that could apply to any copper gas pipes anywhere on the van. The most likely cause of movement will be the silly oversize UK Autogas nozzle.

 

[hilldweller]

The most likely cause of movement will be the silly oversize UK Autogas nozzle.

I got the Gaslow filler very close to the end of the moulding where it is stiffened by the hab door, I was quite happy with that but as you say the filler was really made to fill a Boeing 747.

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[fireblade2000uk]

Having followed the advice from above my flexi hose kit arrived from Germany and I installed the BBQ point this weekend. It took a little longer than I had hoped as I had to work around my Gas-It system but found it easier to disconnect the pigtails, remove the regulator from its mounting and that gave me room to cut the copper pipe and put a T connector in. A small piece of 8mm pipe tp make the connection to the T and then sweated the flexi pipe onto this.

 

[pappajohn]

If rubber gas hose is acceptable between bottle and reg it's acceptable between T and BBQ point.
It's only running at 30mb.....less pressure than a morning after beer fart.

 

[fireblade2000uk]

Absolutely right pappajohn however the kit does not come with a connector between the hose and the 8mm T hence having to sweat the pipe onto some 8mm pipe. I couldn't think of another way to spur off post regulator hence the T.

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[pappajohn]

Ah, now I just bought the outlet which comes with about 6" of pre-fitted soft copper pipe, and a plain brass T.
T into hose After reg and new rubber hose fitted to outlet tail and T with crimp type connectors.

Second one had copper pipe after the reg so the plain T was changed to a compression T and a couple of inch of suitable copper pipe from the T to fit the rubber hose to.