Alcohol stove (yet another)
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I love that!
A question for you as someone who obviously knows his way around a stove - why don't the Coleman liquid fuel stoves (having just watched your video, and pondered it about my own) need a preheat? They are so simple to use compared to everything else?
A question for you as someone who obviously knows his way around a stove - why don't the Coleman liquid fuel stoves (having just watched your video, and pondered it about my own) need a preheat? They are so simple to use compared to everything else?
Yep it has John, but to be honest I'm not one for brasso or painting I just want the stove to work.
The 'wick' running inside the feeder tube had rotted on that one so I made a new one out of pipe (tobacco) cleaners, works really well, just make sure they are cotton cleaners. I picked up one of the 1950's models, some pratt had painted it 'stealth / SAS' black
Still works though I've a Turm 38 domestic model on the printer table next to my PC, I often make a coffee on that in the morning while checking my email
Yep it has John, but to be honest I'm not one for brasso or painting I just want the stove to work.
The 'wick' running inside the feeder tube had rotted on that one so I made a new one out of pipe (tobacco) cleaners, works really well, just make sure they are cotton cleaners. I picked up one of the 1950's models, some pratt had painted it 'stealth / SAS' black
I've a Turm 38 domestic model on the printer table next to my PC, I often make a coffee on that in the morning while checking my email
I was lucky in that the one I've got had seen little use... and the wick was in good nick just needed a claen out and blow through with an air line...
Your control rod / handle is different to mine if it's stored in the case...
Photos of mine below.....
I like it a lot its compact easy to use and completely silent (compared to an XGK) and has good perfomance and fits into a PLCE side pouch with my food bag a small trangia fuel bottle and my steel mug....
nice one....
Well that is just the sweetest thing. There's some sort of little key thingy tucked into the base there near the hinge. What's that for?.
Want, want, want.
Want, want, want.
I was lucky in that the one I've got had seen little use... and the wick was in good nick just needed a claen out and blow through with an air line...
Your control rod / handle is different to mine if it's stored in the case...
Photos of mine below.....
I like it a lot its compact easy to use and completely silent (compared to an XGK) and has good perfomance and fits into a PLCE side pouch with my food bag a small trangia fuel bottle and my steel mug....
nice one....
Nice one John, I actually bought that same model, same colour in 1972 or 1973 from Blacks shop in Birmingham, I may be wrong but I think it cost me about £4 new so I guess yours is ten or so years younger than mine. I think your was the first model not to store the control rod in the case.
oh right and do you preheat it to get the temp up sufficiently so that it vapourises?
interesting stuff, so i take it that apart from obvious seals these are pretty low maintenance and durable?
They are very low maintenance but, (there is always a but) there is a wick running down the feed pipe which were orientally wicking wrapped around a wire. Over time the meths will rot the wire; my repair method was to use pipe cleaners to make a new wick.
These folding models can fetch good money these days but the table top domestic stoves can be had for little coin, check on eBay Germany.
wow german and US ebay have loads of them.......
gonna get bidding on some i think
found a 22b which is kinda like a double burner 8R - looks a bit big for lugging about lol
but would be amazing for meetsSimilar threads
