Petrol / White Gas stoves

[AUSSIE]

All you need to do to see what can go wrong with an MSR Stove in any model is to go take a look at the contents of an MSR Stove Maintenance / Spare Parts Kit!!!

 

[simonsays]

All you need to do to see what can go wrong with an MSR Stove in any model is to go take a look at the contents of an MSR Stove Maintenance / Spare Parts Kit!!!

Exactly. The son of a friend of mine once boasted that his super-duper MSR had a comprehensive toolkit for field maintanance. 'Alas' I said, 'My Trangia doesnt have a toolkit coz it doesnt *need* one' ):

Cheers,
simon

 

[TAHAWK]

Exactly. The son of a friend of mine once boasted that his super-duper MSR had a comprehensive toolkit for field maintanance. 'Alas' I said, 'My Trangia doesnt have a toolkit coz it doesnt *need* one' ):

Cheers,
simon

One can imagine the maintenance kit for a wood fire. In another life, I cooked on cans full of sand in which we poured gasoline. Few maintenance problems there. :super:

I have a Whisperlite with at least 360 hours of operation since I bought it used fifteen years ago. It has had no problems at elevations from 200m to 4000m and temperatures from 40C to - 25C. The maintenance kit that I inherited from the first owner remains unused. There are Murphy-ridden pressure stoves out there. The Whisperlite is not one of them.

 

[neo_wales2000]

I agree about the maintanence free aspect of the Trangia in all its various models, however sometimes I think we all want that little 'extra fast' heat, so I have converted a cheap £7 gas stove to use with my 25, works well.

Every stove needs some maintanence, even if its only knocking out a few dents in a Trangia. You would not leave your car parked up for a few months and expect it to start up and work 100% without looking it over first, same applies to stoves. Common sence really, don't leave them full of petrol/coleman fuel for months, drain them, fire them up at home if they have not been used in a while, check seals and pump leathers, if in doubt, change them. I've got one Primus model 210 made in 1916, which had been in a shed for 40 years when I got hold of it, one new pump leather, clean of the jet, clean parafinn and it worked first fire up. I get a real kick using that stove, its fantastic, so is an ancient Primus 96 (although its small tank means a shortish burn time) which burns like a rocket.

Happy new year to you all, and keep 'em burning