I bought this from @Spiritburner at our Newark 2022 meet. Ross featured it in the Gallery HERE and I asked him to decide whether I should add this post onto his or create a separate entry. He decided on the latter. In silver livery in use brewing my coffee at Newark. It’s possible that the silver finish is original, but the entry for one of these in a 1934 Primus catalogue describes a ‘dull olive’ as the finish in that year and I reverted it to that colour. I sprayed it with a high-temperature stove paint I judged to approximate well enough to olive green, with the benefit of resisting heat scorching. The stove I chose to take shelter in it is a steel-tank Primus 405, which is a robust stove with hard-soldered joints, a perfect candidate for enclosure, should overheating become an issue. That said, Primus advocate leaving the access door open when the stove is fired up, and in use the stove tank got no hotter than usual. My compliments to @z1ulike for having the label reproduced - see his post HERE. Nice one Ben! Alcohol priming. Door shut. I’d usually wait for the bulk of the alcohol in the spirit cup to be expended and rely on the residue to ignite the burner via the lghting torch … … clipped onto the burner. I was impatient. Firing. Door open. Avoiding blocking the camera makes the procedure look more awkward than it need be. Boiling a kettle. The fold-away legs distinguish this model from the No.1153. They raise the stove to a useful height. Folded, the shelter converts to a No.1153 configuration. Lid off. Lid on. Perfect for brews on the terrace. Thanks again Ross! John
@presscall John a thing of great beauty and very rare, I like your sympathetic restoration. Nice work. Si
When I saw it at Newark, I must admit I didn't see the significance of it. After you have repainted it etc it looks great and most useful. Alan
I’ve improved the fit of the stove in the shelter by adding removable feet/spacers to the Primus No.405 stove, featured in THIS write-up. They prevent the stove moving around in the shelter while pressurising the tank and raise the trivet to an ideal height just above the upper rim of the shelter.
Any idea which stove was meant to be paired with these shelters? The after market spacers you've made are brilliant but I wonder why they are necessary. Perhaps these shelters were designed for a different stove that would fit perfectly without any modification. Ben P.S. - You're shelter has sexy legs.
@z1ulike Good question Ben. I don’t know of a stove that fits better. I made the spacers primarily to bring the trivet up level with the upper rim of the shelter so I could use this Vesuviana coffee maker. Apart from the extra height for that specific purpose, I found that a Primus No.5 - surely intended by Primus to be a prime contender to go in their shelter - moves in the shelter when pumping, unless steadied by the other hand. No big deal and ‘two-handed’ pumping of such a stove outside of a shelter is the norm, but a refinement I wanted to incorporate. Here’s another solution built into an aluminium shelter featured in a CCS post. John
Brilliant job and documented thread, and a brilliant choice of stove the 405 with it's hard soldered steel tank. the perfect candidate for the shelter. Very little chance of a steel tank over heating, as it don't conduct heat like brass, well done all round
Bringing the stove up to the level of the shelter makes sense. I'm thinking a ring of plywood cut to fit the shelter with some holes drilled to for the stove feet would work as well. Adjusting the depth of the holes you could get the stove height to the exact level of the shelter and the ring would keep the stove from sliding around while pumping. Ben
