Improvised flame ring

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  1. yonadav

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    I recently bought a Burmos 21 stove that was missing the flame ring. Wanting to test the stove, I improvised a very crude flame ring from materials I had on hand. I found a strip of very thin spring-steel that was 19 mm wide - just the size I needed.

    I first heated the steel to bright-red and let it cool slowly to anneal it and make it workable. I then cut a series of notches on one edge, and bent that part of the strip some 45 degrees out. Then I rolled the strip to a ring of the right diameter, and connected the edges by means of two small notches.

    I put this "ring" in the stove and fired it, assuming that after the first test I will discard this "kludge" and look for a solid ring. To my surprise this ring worked so well that I decided to keep it as a permanent part of the stove (or until it eventually burns out).

    See the photos below.

    Yonadav

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  2. Knight84

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    Nice work!!! :clap: :clap:

    I like it!!! :mrgreen:

    And looking at the flame I can tell your stove is working great and the flame spreader is doing its job, NICE!. You almost don't need to order a brass one from basecamp.

    Cheers,
    Jeff
     
  3. itchy

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    Functional, practical and relatively simple. Whats not to like? :clap: