De,
What you have there is a "Sea Swing" by brand, and I am strugging to
remember the actual manufacturer (I half think it was either
Willcox-Crittenden or the foundry that did some alluminum for them).

They have ben out of production for several decades. It was designed to
use canned gellied alchohol as a fuel, but they and others built the
add-on liquid fuel burner that this one has.

Hate to tell you, but one went by on ebay recently. I will bet a google
search turns up at least one.

Good luck guy

Matt Colie A.Sloop "Bonne Ide'e"
Lifelong Watermand. Licnsed Mariner and Perpetual Sailor


De Clarke wrote:

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