i keep mine in an old Ikea display cabinet.very classy with a light and glass doors.i got it for just taking it away from a friend who up graded. it takes up space in the basement with the rest of my camp gear.the small bottom section has solid door that i keep the fuel bottles and Gaz carts in. short term for camping trip they go into a cook kit and that into a nylon bag.Alan told me that when he was over at the stove meet the guys drained the kero out of their stoves when they packed up so i do that now.i was getting kero weeping out of the jet when the temps changed.the gas stoves all have a shut off valve so i leave the fuel in.
i keep original boxes (if available), and store long term w/flushed tanks, oiled leathers inside a bigger box or duffel bag on shelving in the garage since we live in hurricane country, i keep the more valuable stoves and gear (such as my BD silent burner dampers) in a big go-bag... short term i just keep my stoves and lanterns topped off
I don't have many stoves so for now, I get to look at them everytime I get on my computer. I am working hard to outgrow this storage situation! I usually keep a small amount of fuel in the stoves and fire them up occasionally. Just remember to loosten the filler caps on the Kero burners or they will weep.
Well the reason I ask is because my wife said that I need to put some in storage. Other wise I just run them every now and then.
Long term storage means to me; for more than a year. These stove and lanterns are drained of fuel and the tanks flushed with lighter grades of fuel until they are rinsed clean of liquid and odor. That means kero stoves are flushed with Coleman Fuel then with alcohol. Finely they are left outside and allowed to dry (ventilate) until i can no longer smell the alcohol. Flushing fluids are not a tank full but rather half a cup to a full cup of liquid and it's tossed about in the fount until i'm sure all the earlier fuel is diluted, then it is poured into a container for reuse. When i feel this fuel is no longer able to give a proper flush i then use it as a mixing fuel in a heavier fuel stove or i pour it into my auto and dilute it through the engine. A quart of pure kero in 20 gallons of auto gas will not harm the engine, nor will a quart of alcohol mixed with the naptha like Coleman Fuel. For short term storage i top off the fount and oil the leathers. When i top off i fill the stove as full as i can even tipping it to get the last bit of air out so that it will not cause condensation thus rust or corrosion in the fount. I have trained myself to pour out a bit of this fuel before lighting the stove. One does need an air space in the stove to make them operate proper. All my kero stoves are drained of fuel before being put into short or long term storage unless they have a travel cap. i've had my share of weeping stoves on the shelves and believe me i hate the smell of unburned kerosene in or about my house. lance
