Early Nova, but Modified ?

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  1. HunterStovie United States

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    I recently purchased this early Optimus Nova form Ebay. It came with everything in the first photo from the listing and I really didn't give it a close look as the price was right. Here is the listing photo.

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    Upon receiving the stove, I noticed something out of place.

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    The stove was very clean when received, so at some point, for some weird reason the screws holding the legs in place were replaced with larger standard Phillip's head screws with corresponding nuts and washers. Maybe during a disassembly, cleaning and reassembly the originals were lost. I did say it was very clean showing little signs of use.

    The original screws would look like this only silver.

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    Anyway, after replacing the pump /bottle gasket and using the built in pricker I fired up the stove. The CEJN fitting and NRV were fine.

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    As you can see the stove runs perfectly fine as is and most people wouldn't even notice the odd screws.

    But we're not most people here, are we.
     
  2. HunterStovie United States

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    I should also point out that the included stuff sack is not original to the stove, but I do have an original pouch for this stove.
     
  3. afoton

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    The screws are the right one. My Nova from 2000 has the same screws.
     
  4. snwcmpr

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    Of course you do :)