On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 12:33:04AM -0400, Ben Okopnik wrote: > I've seen similar arrangements, and like the idea quite a bit; unfort, > what I've seen is 1) painted steel, which will chip and rust, and 2) > stainless, which is beautiful and *stupid* expensive. I might end up > just welding one up, if I can figure out the measurements. A single wide > hook at the bottom plus a 40" over-center clamp, with the whole thing > clamped to an upright on the pushpit sounds just right.
Yep, this one's one of them stupid expensive stainless units. Were I in the market for one now, I'd probably just make my own and save a decent pile of cash, but at the time I didn't have the tools (or skills) handy yet, and was too damned busy already renovating the galley to accept the oven and stove that the propane was installed for (and plumbing in the gas lines, and...) > > I don't have a working camera right now, or I'd take pictures for you. > > If I get a break in the next few days, I may try and either make you a > > drawing, or identify the manufacturer.. > > A pic and measurements would be awesome. Thanks, Kris! Measurements will have to wait at least a week until I get back home, but I got a friend to take some pictures recently, and she posted them at: https://picasaweb.google.com/117029964194705003009/Propane?authkey=Gv1sRgCJzP16nUoOvRuAE&feat=email (And yes, that's a 1lb bottle hanging from the BBQ in spite of the apparently-disused Y on the tank's valve. The tank-BBQ hose got leaky recently, and I still wanted to grill things, so I pulled out one of the emergency spare bottles that are supposed to be for hooking to the "steak saver") Cheers, Kris -- Kris Coward http://unripe.melon.org/ GPG Fingerprint: 2BF3 957D 310A FEEC 4733 830E 21A4 05C7 1FEB 12B3 _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list Liveaboard@liveaboardonline.com To adjust your membership settings over the web http://liveaboardonline.com/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to liveaboard-j...@liveaboardonline.com To unsubscribe send an email to liveaboard-le...@liveaboardonline.com The archives are at http://www.liveaboardonline.com/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/liveaboard@liveaboardnow.org The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html