Hi again! Promised some pictures after testing the new Campsor-9 stove in practise. Well the subject lies a bit, as I couldnt hold myself and tested it yesterday evening also, but I didnt make any coffee on it so I figured that today is the "real" test First of all, I found out that the stove really neads a windshield, so I cut one out of aluminium sheet and made it roll around the fuel bottle when not in use. That makes it take allmost no space when using the stove. Here is the setup: Here the windshield is still around the fuel bottle. You can see that there are spareparts (gaskets, nipples and cleaning needle, a small tool, a cap for the bottle, a mesh (that I still havent found any use for), and an adapter to use when using the stove with a gas cartridge. There was also a small manual with the package. Nowhere it says what country this stove is made in, there is a nonworking internet address (www.blhw.com), but that was of no help. I would think the stove is made in Taiwan though as I found lots of pages from Taiwan, where they sold this one. But that isn't information to trust on too much. After setting everything up, it looked like this: And here you can see the burnerhead starting to get red. I have to say the stove sounds impressing and the red color is really glowing when it is a bit darker. Also, when using the stove it did make some flareups every now and then. I don't know if this was because of the wind or if I had water in the fuel, or maybe there is something in the fuel line that I will have to remove, time will tell. Pretty soon the heat boiled my coffee anyway, so the stove did work as it was supposed to and soon I could enjoy my cup of coffee. As I told you on another thread, I probably was lucky with this stove, as it had a pump made out of metal and not plastic: Everything packed together, the package isn't very big: Hopefully the stove will serve me well during the years, but there is no big loss if it doesn't as it really was cheap. It looks well built and I am pleased with the performance of it, but there is one thing I don't like and that is how long it takes for the flames to go out after turning off the valve. I know it is because of the long fuel line, but still, the stove soots a lot when there is no pressure. Anders
The design of the pump appears to indicate that you should be able to purge the fuel line a la Nova and others by flipping the bottle over. Does the fuel line permit this? Mike
Well the manual didn't say anything about that, but turning the bottle over, would make only gas vapour go into the fuel line, so maybe turning it over before closing the valve might do the trick. I am not familiar with any other stove of this type so I am happy for every tip I can get Anders
Hello Anders, The trick is indeed to flip the bottle over when done with heating. If you look at the stif fuel intake with the sieve at the end, imagine it turned in such a way that only vapour, not liquid will escape through it from a bottle still under pressure. The vapour itself is way too lean to keep the burner going, hence the flame dies, clean as can be! Than you shut off, leaving the bottle pressured and ready to go when needed again, but first flip it back! Regards, Mike
Thanks! I was thinking why the intake was on the side, but I thought it only was in order to get the last drip from the tank. The idea of turning it over at the end sounds great, I will try that next time Anders
Does your have the gas cartridge adaptor? How do you use that if there isn't a quick relese hose/fuel line? Anders
I believe this manufacturer changed the design recently. I don't have one, but from what I could tell, the previous style pump (plastic) had a Lindal type connection (not unlike Primus multifuel) so the hose could be connected either to a gas cylinder or to the pump. The quick connect coupling and an adapter is an interesting idea.
OK! As I was wondering why the stove did flare up eventually, I did a small inspection of it. Removed every part mentioned in the manual, and found something small and black underneath the nipple. It wasn't soot, more like some metal that had been left in the burner. Reassembled and tested the stove and it was way better now, no flareups anymore. Nice cherry red burner I also flipped the fuel tank the other way around when finished and let it burn. Firstly it started to roar even more, but after a while it stopped, and it didn't soot as much this way, neither did I get any fuel drops out of the fuel line when I removed it. This stove works great Thanks all for the tips!
I was wrong about the manufactoring country, it is Chinese and made in a factory called Bolai Outdoors Sports. The link mentioned earlier suddenly started to work. The stove could not be found on the english language pages, but an allmost identical could be found on the chinese language pages. Appearently some development have been done lately
looks like a fine stove for the money.what i think we are seeing now is that pump in bottle stoves are being cloned in Asia the same way the Primus was in Europe when they first came out.
Hi! First of all I am Kai from Germany and this is my first post in this forum. I did not want to start a new topic for a single question. Does anybody have an English manual of Campsor-9? Mine is in Chinese. I would be very pleasant to get a link or if anybody could scan his copy and post it here. And has anybody found out what this metal gauze is used for? Thanks!
This is essentialy identical to the BRS8 that you might be able to find English instructions for. Even if you cant keep the Chinese instructions for the parts diagram but use the instructions for a MSR Dragonfly or Optimus Nova to operate it. They are so close it wont matter except don't bother trying to run on kerosene. It can be done but it runs so poorly its not worth it
If anyone cares US$ 52.50 http://dx.com/campsor-9-camp-stove-split-type-oil-or-gas-fuel-silver-101747 I personally have found that a high % of items off deal extreme are of very poor quality. And you pay for what you get. Personally I find it hard to spend 52-53 dollars when a MSR Whisperlite v2 is 72.00 bucks and lifetime warranty. And the older version is 64.00.. https://classiccampstoves.com/posts/159951 Just my .02
I got my Campsor 9 in evilbay UK, for £39 it came with English instruction leaflet, and it says best liquid fuel is 70% kerosene and 30% gasoline. It works really great with such a blended fuel. With pure kerosene it works with yellow flame tips, but it does not sooth the pots. the problem with pure kerosene is frequent jet clogging, and the shaker jet cleaner does not work always. I find the legs not locking firm when open ia a nuisance, but a good allover stove anyway, for that money. Orsoorso
Just received mine from DX. Unlike a previous poster we don't have the option of buying MSR stoves here at anything like a reasonable price. I am happy with the construction of this stove. I agree that a lot of stuff from DX is substandard and I think that they are used to offload manf reject products. I have had many disappointments from them and have learnt to become very selective with what I buy. Anyway my reason for this reply is about the disc of stainless steel mesh that comes with the spares. I notice that it is the same diameter as the burner head and wonder if it should be used to place over the head when running to even out the flame. If so it is a pity that it wasn't bigger so that it could be folded around the top to stay in place if it was found to be needed. My barbeque has a supply of stones designed to do the same type of job - to even out the flame front. It might help to prevent hot spots.
The mesh, I think is for use when burning gas. I have seen it in a photo somewhere on a xgk clone for this purpose. As for MSR stoves, just look on ebay, they can be very cheap.
