I was on someone else's boat and saw a nice little pressurised kero
single-burner cooker

http://www.ucolick.org/~de/boat/Theo...ow/Photo2.html

(see left side of image) which sure looks like a Petromax or a
Petromax knockoff. it was mounted in a cardanic bracket as you
see here -- a hefty affair that looked like aluminium. the bracket
might have been home made (by a skilled metal worker) but my guess
is that it was professionally manufactured to go with the stove.

it was a strong mechanism, adequate to bear the weight of the
filled stove plus a small saucepan. very handy. I'd like to
have one of those.

has anyone ever seen a bracket like this? can you identify the
manufacturer? is this the "cardanic bracket" referred to in some
old (in German) Petromax/Geniol literature? I know where I can
get Petromax lamps and stoves, but not where I can find this type
of bracket. have done a lot of googling and the range of prefab
gimbals for marine applications is pretty narrow (and pretty
chintzy, most being only half-cardanic and made of flimsy metal).

comments, stories, reminiscences and clues welcome!

de

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