Post by Brian M on Oct 28, 2008 12:22:10 GMT
From: OliverShaw1 (Original Message) Sent: 28/09/2005 18:12
It is worth repeating on the Technical board the substance of my reply to Seatonles on the General board.
There was a letter in the Caravan Club Magazine some years ago about what had emerged as a gas safety problem with fridges, and which appears to apply to our models.
The gas feed pipe to the burner is steel, and is out of sight and out of mind - until the coating erodes and the steel rusts. Once it becomes porous you have a gas leak in close proximity to the burner.
It is worth making it part of one's maintenance routine, perhaps every three years, to remove the fridge, inspect the pipe, clean it if necessary, and paint it. I use Hammerite for this purpose.
Obviously if it is in poor condition when inspected you don't clean it; you replace it, but as preventative maintenance it is then worth painting the new one before you reinstall the fridge ...
Oliver
From: Gareth851 Sent: 29/09/2005 07:26
I'd just like to add to Olivers comments about corroding steel gas pipes that this also applies to Carver space heaters (although the steel pipe which corrodes is underneath the caravan and if leaking should only release gas outside of the van). Also early copper dome style and some Carver Cascade 1 water heaters use steal pipes for their supply and although I have not seen them cause a problem they certainly have the same potential to do so.
Gareth.
It is worth repeating on the Technical board the substance of my reply to Seatonles on the General board.
There was a letter in the Caravan Club Magazine some years ago about what had emerged as a gas safety problem with fridges, and which appears to apply to our models.
The gas feed pipe to the burner is steel, and is out of sight and out of mind - until the coating erodes and the steel rusts. Once it becomes porous you have a gas leak in close proximity to the burner.
It is worth making it part of one's maintenance routine, perhaps every three years, to remove the fridge, inspect the pipe, clean it if necessary, and paint it. I use Hammerite for this purpose.
Obviously if it is in poor condition when inspected you don't clean it; you replace it, but as preventative maintenance it is then worth painting the new one before you reinstall the fridge ...
Oliver
From: Gareth851 Sent: 29/09/2005 07:26
I'd just like to add to Olivers comments about corroding steel gas pipes that this also applies to Carver space heaters (although the steel pipe which corrodes is underneath the caravan and if leaking should only release gas outside of the van). Also early copper dome style and some Carver Cascade 1 water heaters use steal pipes for their supply and although I have not seen them cause a problem they certainly have the same potential to do so.
Gareth.