Burnercap for the very old silents

Woo-HOO!!!!

Oh, that looks sooooo good! Three cheers for Henrik! (Waiting is even harder now.)

Wim, it looks like you've got a leg fitted on your stove now. It's looking very nice. Congrats! How do you like your old style silent burner compared to the more common later designs now that you've got it running with a Henrik Lid? It certainly looks beautiful!

Best,
Gary

 

Very nice pictures Wim and the caps that CT made are really fit and looking good

 

A very impressive piece of work there. Excellent!

 

Hi Gary, the 3th leg was added last year, and it has seen frequent use since then! With Henrik's wonderfull cap it is now "compleet" and I love it!!! (loved it with the converted Prabhab cap, but now even more 8) )

Regards,

Wim

 

Whell what do you know, the old stamper has got a little brother:

 

Yes!!

Looks like my old Optimus 5J is soon going to get its top hat, and Gary's told me an inner cap's on its way to me. Two talented guys.

Thanks fellas.

John

 

I suspect this will be a limited production/edition
So far it is you presscall and BernieDawg that has spoken for this size.
David Shouksmith is still undesided size vise.

 

Cool, Henrik! I *really* look forward to getting mine because I brought the dead to life!!!



My "zombie burner" is aching to be tested. Will it work? Only time will tell. But, it's ready when you are and we shall see!

Best,
Gary

 

That's a brilliant repair and photo sequence Gary.

I'm trying to place what stove that is though. Optimus something but what model and year?

John

 

3 of the smaller caps are polishing as i write this.

One for the Dawg and one for presscall.
Do you need/want more?

Anybody else?

 

Hi Henrik
Yes, please, sir. Now that the dead walk again I could use a second. Thanks!

Hi John
Ahhh. The stove. Sorta looks like a Optimus Traveler #1, but it's not. It's a Primus #8. It appears on page nine in this 1903 catalog here at CCS:
https://classiccampstoves.com/threads/10198/

It appears it should be sporting a roarer rather than the old #132 lid-type silent. But, I'm happy with it the way it is. This one will appear in the Stove Gallery later this summer though we'll need to sort out the categories in the Gallery since this is a "new" category of #8.

Cheers,
Gary

 

And here's the beauty queens:



Will ship tomorrow!

 

Here's the result of trading with presscall , a little brown "turd" (Old style Coleman 222) in front of the big a$$ Swedes



This gem is going to the Swedish CCS meet this august (im on a moped!), and man does it give off some light!

 

Here's my happy troop of Henrik-lid fitted stoves. They (the stoves and the lids) work great! Thanks Henrik!!



(I'm really, really looking forward to firing up the little guys when those lids arrive.) Woo-HOO!

Best,
Gary

 

What is this? It's turned into a forum for machinists and now they are trading!!!
I don't even have an adapter to turn my hand drill into a press....
Nice work guys!

 

And you "only" needed 2

 

It's spring. They bred when I wasn't looking!

G

 

I'm one happy bloke. New outer and inner caps for my Optimus 5J, courtesy of Henrik and Gary.

Optimus 5J resto

Profound thanks to Henrik and Gary!

Great to see that Coleman 222 in such impressive company. Yeah, great lantern for packing into a small space and punches out the light way above its weight.

John