gas cooker connections

[lancashirelass11]

Can anyone offer any advice about the kind of gas pipe we need to connect our new English-bought gas cooker to our French bottled gas?

Our cooker has a female screw in fitting, whereas our current French cooker has a male screw in 15mm fitting, to which we have attached a female fitting, with a pipe running to the gas bottle.

All the UK hoses seem to have the fitting we need at the cooker end, but they all have a bayonet fitting at the gas end, with various bits of adaptors supplied as part of the LPG hose kit.  At the gas end, our French hose just has a female screw in fitting to join to the regulator - but the fitting is not suitable at the cooker end.  If you see what I mean.

Can we buy an adapter to turn our French gas pipe into a  male fitting (at the cooker end), and can we buy it in the UK or only in France?  Or should we buy one of the UK kits that will fit the cooker end, in the hope that the gas end will fit into our French regulator?

 

[La Guerriere]

You should be able to find an adaptor in a French brico. We did this for our cooker, same problem.

[jondeau]

And if all else fails, you can buy a hose with a male 1/2" fitting at each end which can easily be adapted with a few fittings to fit your cooker (French thread sizes are the same as English BSP)

This company does mail order and has an extensive website.......http://www.bes.co.uk

 

!/2" hose is part no.6026

[trees 2]

Had the same problem. I bought a 1/2" bsp male to male connector, screwed it into the cooker with a liberal coating of "Calortite", and attached the French hose to this.

Messed around for ages trying to get the connector in France, finally bought one at the first try at a builder's merchants back in the UK.