Hello! Got this Molitor stove, and searched the web for any info. Found a thread here. Molitor mystery stove Neil McRae suggested it was a Hugo Schneider (HASAG) stove, as he knew of a HASAG pressure lantern with this brand. Otto Müller was a Berlin lamp maker - I think at some time they merged or was bought with/by HASAG. Here's the same logo on a lamp certainly made by Otto Müller. It's the flamespreader from an Otto Müller Augusta 20''' wick lamp burner. I also found a thread on the German Pelam forum on another mystery stove - with the same logo and branded OMAG - which analogue to HASAG must be Otto Müller Aktien Gesellschaft So, it seems Otto Müller should be added to the German manufacturers list, even if I can't say when this stove was made - before or after they eventually went into HASAG. Cleaned it and pulled the "rotten" wick out of the vaporator tube. Made a new one from cotton yarn. Lighting was no problem, but I find the flame very low. Poor focus - didn't have a stand... How tight is the wick supposed to be - or should i get some brass mesh instead. Blowing some in the tank ventilation hole, gives a much stronger/larger flame. /Hans
Gidday HasseO was interested to see your molitor stove. I am the owner of the one in mystery stoves. yours looks very similar to mine except for the tank. good to see there are others out there of a simalar vein. Dougc
Well, it would be nice to know how loose a wick you can have. Never taken a new one apart. However, I don't have to make a new one - the one I made is 16 strand (is that the right word?)cotton yarn - meaning I took factory cotton yarn and folded it 16 times. It went into the vaporizer tube with some resistance. I can take a couple of strands away without making a new wick. Just wonder if there's some safety issue with this wick. The only similar thing I have is a gravity fed alcohol lamp - which only has brass gauze in the vaporizer. That construction has almost no resistance. Maybe it's just if the tank gets empty there's the risk of backfire? /Hans
