Gas Systems Stove for free

[Elrod]

Just pulled our GSI, CNG stove out. Natural Gas has become very difficult to source locally, so converting to Origo alcohol cook-top. The stove is free to good home, but need to pick up locally and take tank too. Never used the oven as on-board baking is not our thing, but believe it works, stove top burners work well. Believe the stove was original equipment on our 32-3. Love the safety factors of CNG and if you live near a source, you are in luck

 

[Prairie Schooner]

I put ours on Craigslist. Someone paid me $50 for it, took both tanks. He was converting a box truck to a camper. Claimed to be an appliance repairman and wasn't worried about CNG availability. He was kind of sketchy, but his money was real. It might also be of interest to someone for an off-grid camp.

 

[Pete the Cat]

Can't you just change the nozzles on the burners from CNG to LP?

 

[Loren Beach]

Perhaps in theory. Then convince your insurer. When dealing with an old system with old hoses it's safer to start over no matter what your chosen fuel, IMHO,

 

[bsangs]

Can't you just change the nozzles on the burners from CNG to LP?

Yes you can. Ours was converted to propane by previous owner many years ago and has worked flawlessly for us.

 

[Pete the Cat]

I have worked on gas fireplaces and when you get parts for them they almost always have LP and Natural Gas jets you can install depending on the source. The regulators, of course are very different between the two gases.

 

[peaman]

The regulators, of course are very different between the two gases.

From my reading, nat gas was considered very safe because, being lighter than air, it will escape the enclosed cabin into the atmosphere when leaks occur, as they do. Propane, being heavier than air required additional safety devices to minimize the chance of explosion resulting from the gas filling the cabin undetected. It is easy enough, I guess, to install a sniffer with an alarm to let a skipper know if explosive gas has settled in his bilge. (hopefully, that alarm is installed so as to be ignition proof). It is another thing to have the safety of automatically shutting off the gas on the stove if the flame is extinguished from a draft, or a spill from a pot.

As one who prefers to go without a seatbelt when driving around town, I will not judge someone who wants to simply change jets on a stove before fueling it with an odorless potentially explosive heavier than air gas for brewing their morning coffee. But maybe there should be a dayshape those folks could hoist so others docked nearby can have fair warning.

 

[Pete the Cat]

From my reading, nat gas was considered very safe because, being lighter than air, it will escape the enclosed cabin into the atmosphere when leaks occur, as they do. Propane, being heavier than air required additional safety devices to minimize the chance of explosion resulting from the gas filling the cabin undetected. It is easy enough, I guess, to install a sniffer with an alarm to let a skipper know if explosive gas has settled in his bilge. (hopefully, that alarm is installed so as to be ignition proof). It is another thing to have the safety of automatically shutting off the gas on the stove if the flame is extinguished from a draft, or a spill from a pot.

As one who prefers to go without a seatbelt when driving around town, I will not judge someone who wants to simply change jets on a stove before fueling it with an odorless potentially explosive heavier than air gas for brewing their morning coffee. But maybe there should be a dayshape those folks could hoist so others docked nearby can have fair warning.

Just as a fact check, propane is not odorless. I certainly would not depend on smelling it to detect it. There are strict ABYC regulations about the regulators, sensors, lines, fittings, guages, and remote shutoff valves required. I did not mean to suggest you could simply change the jets -- unless you were simply replacing a previously installed propane system.