Anyone out there that have heard of, or used a stove called "Camp Omnifuel"? I am planning to try and get one as the price is rather good but from experience a good price doesnt allways mean a good stove so comments would be appreciated. Anders
I might buy it to play with, but I don't recommend trusting your life to it. I have NOT heard any positive reviews reference any of the evilbay knockoffs. Flame on! Mike
Morning, Anders, I have to agree with Mike on this one: Most knock-off stoves, the sort of which this stove is, are not very good, quality-wise, with only a few exceptions. Were it me, I'd wait for a good Primus Omnifuel, and call it good. Just my opinion, though. Take care, and God Bless! Every Good Wish, Doc
I would go with Doc's opinion to get a know name brand rather than a ebay knock off. And as toonsgt sez, dont depend on your life on it - or worse. Ron
I am sometimes a little curious about these Chinese stoves. The prices seem to fluctuate a great deal, but when the price gets down to 1/3 that of a brand name stove (made in China), why not? The problem as I see it is that when (not if) they have problems, or something fails, where do you get parts? Then again, a service kit for a brand-name stove may set you back as much as you paid for the Chinese stove. So in a sense, they become a disposable stove and then it becomes an enviro-ethical dilemma.
Seen a friend out with one (TK800) , it was very poor on paraffin. The vaporizer is too high to get much heat from the prime, especially in the slightest breeze.
I have to admit I have allways been curious on stuff that is told to be "crap", (I have owned 4 french cars and I still don't think they are crap) and I really wanted to know what kind of a stove this is. So I went to the store that was only 120 km from home and bought it. The real name is Campsor-9. It even says in the manual that even if it runs on kerosene, it is preferable to use it with clean gasoline or gas (butane/propane). The reason is that it would produce so much soot. Well, my opinion is, that pre-heating with gasoline or kerosene of course produces soot, so I will try it first with white gas, but pre-heat with spirit in order to keep it clean. Maybe I will run it on kerosene some day also, who knows. It has a smart cleaning needle also, just shake the burner and the needle should pop out any dirt....hmmm... sometimes the dirt has been really hard to get out even with an ordinary cleaning needle so I wonder how this will work. I don't know if I was just lucky, but the pump was made out of metal on this stove, but in the manual there are pictures of a pump made out of plastic. It is not a small stove, but it will be very interesting to test this one out. I will put some pictures after my first testdrive Anders
Some of these stove have a micron filter in the jet which clogs pretty easily, not sure about this one.
As there was a spare jet (as also spare o-rings and cleaning needle, a mesh of some kind) I can easily check if there is any filter inside the jet, but I would say no as there is a cleaning needle that would have to go through the filter in that case. Anders
I have one of these, I bought it to put into my Trangia, it works fine, always has The pump is plastic and has its own thread so you are stuck with thier own fuel bottles (I think so far). The stove is stable, well built and has resonable control. I find that it does need a windshield, I use some kitchen foil and my spare tent pegs. As some have already said for the price its hard to ignore. If I get time I will photo it is action and post them
How do you get it to fit into your trangia? Do you keep the leggs unfolded or have you removed them completely? I don't know what the price is on other places, here they have been 69€ but now they had a special price so it was only 39€... Ohh... and the pump. As I said, mine had a pump made out of metal, not plastic, and the fuelbottle threads are the same as on McKinley fuel bottles at least, so I think they are standard.
That might be for when using propane/butane gas. A while back I received some small jets from a stove buddy in NZ for which his employer was the distributor. They fit the SVEA 123 size stoves perfectly and work a treat, but they come with a small brass gauze filter inside the jet. He recommended removing this filter when using it with a liquid fueled stove which was easily done, and as I say the jets work a treat with my 123 & Opti. 80 stove. Something to think about. Best of luck with the stove, if it works out for you €39 would seem like a decent price.
Anders If it is the same as mine there is a single M6 nut underneath which secures the brner to the leg/windshield assembly. I removed this which left just the burner and the generator tube, to this I bolted a Trangia Adaptor in its place. This then simply drops into the Trangias lower windshield. I have been pondering cutting up a Trangis burner and fitting the petrol buner into it.
Very clever design!! I didn't realize this until I removed the nut underneath the burner and saw with my own eyes what a neat little burner came out of the shell . You made your own Trangia adaptor to put the burner into then? Anders
