in response to various questions:
- as to convenience, i fabricated the pivots and hangy parts in a few minuits. i don't think it would have been any faster to design brackets to hold the stove still. i did have to design a niche bigger than the stove/oven to leave room for it to swing, and if i had not done that i could have had a bigger or even 3 burner stove. oh well. this one was cheap. im not overthinking it.
- Arne, i like your idea with the dive weight, but the hippies i sail with are always yelling at me about putting lead near the food?! maybe a decorative cast iron something else.
- drummer dosnt heal very far, the stove has an ss fid all the way around, the niche has an additional wood fid around, my pans are fairly deep and my pressure cooker never spills. so i use the pivot when i need it and leave the stove locked vertical when i dont.
-the pivot was nice for not spilling the preheat alcocol for the kero burners while preheating. but i replaced the alcohol cups with bigger deeper ones and that is no longer an issue either.
i guess i didnt think about it much, the previous stove was 3 burner and had no oven, i sacrificed some space in my paint locker for the oven so i thought the change would help turn me from someone who paints to someone who bakes. in the end the paint just spread out to more lockers.