Just picked this lovely stove an hour ago. If you look then you will find. This now compliments my other small-ish stoves: Radius 17, Petromax 210, and Primus 210. Its the silent burner and prior to heading over there searched on the Meva to see what comes with it. Well, it was nice that the steel grate was included although missing the wind screen (for priming). Never the less is was within my penny budget. Dated 363 which would mean 3rd quarter of 1963 if I am not mistaken. I will do a thorough check before firing up this nice kerosene stove that has seen very little use. Ron
Ron, you are freaking me out! I just came home with the exact same stove Mine is in great condition but missing two parts. I will need the silent burner cap and the spreader below, other than that mine is in very nice shape. Please advise if this is an interchangeable part with other Swedish stoves of this vintage. Mine is a Meva #1 with a date code of 3-64 What are the chances of this happening???????????????
Nice one Ron! I had my eye on that one but knew I wouldn't be able to get to it in time, glad it went to a fellow forum member!
Oh wow Ron great find there. Were you did you find this gem? and what did you get it for. I wish I could find something like one of these. I really want a silent burner with a grill or grate on it. As long as I dont have to pay an arm and a leg for it.
Ok, the story here with aluminumjunkie buying a similar set it the seller had two Meva No. 1. Unknow to me that AJ also was looking at it. I was ahead perhaps by 30 minutes and the seller sold me a complete set albeit the picture did show a new grate on top. The seller did however sell it to me $4 less than what he was asking but was only missing the windscreen. While picking it up, his phone rang and since he was in the middle of selling me the first stove asked the gentleman (who may have been aluminumjunkie) that he would call back in a few minutes. I did not put two and two together until AJ texted me he got the same stove about an hour after I posted it here on the forum. He (the seller) seemed to have more parts and he said it was for another No. 1 but he needed to look for the other parts. 30 minutes after I left AJ arrived and got a bigger discount due to the missing silent cap. No worries as I hooked him up already to get an adaptor+opti silent cap to work on his Meva. Alls well and certainly a very coincidental purchase. Like Doc said you just need to look in the nooks and crannies of either the flea market, antique shops, craigslist, and the likes. I was informed though by a knowledgeable owner and stovie berniedawg to watch out for stress cracks on these thin walled stoves as they are prone to such. Viscara, your part of the woods should produce some nice stoves if you do look hard enough. And you do not have to pay an arm and a leg. AJ, sent you a PM. And thank you gentlemen for your nice comments. Stop the press Alright so after my 2nd cuppa coffee, I looked at the stove with a fine toothcomb and whaya know, there were indeed stress cracks, 4 of them where the crimp between the bottom and the tank skirt is and a 5th about half an inch forming (not yet a cracked) on the side (skirt) of the tank. I think I can work on this easily but will not make the stove look good. Oh well, better safe than finding puddles or spews of kerosene while firing up the stove. More pictures when I get back from work Ron
Hi Ron, BD advised you well and now you have found out for yourself the problems that Meva stoves can develop. The Manufacturers obviously wanted a light-weight stove and one which was cheaper to produce. They used thinner gauge brass in the "half-hard" condition to give adequate stregth. Unfortunately this leaves the metal in a highly stressed condition, prone to stress-corrosion, or environment-assisted cracking, to which these alpha-brasses are very vunerable. I have seen such cracking in two of my Meva stoves. Condolences. Best Regards, Kerophile.
Hi George, no worries, I needed something to do anyway. I plan on doing low temp silver solder to reinforce the cracks before I even fire this baby up. For the price I paid, I need not worry if it does not come out as I expected but we will see if I can works some wonders on this stove but it would not win a beauty contest. Ron
Unlucky to get those cracks Ron, but I admire your resolve to get them sorted! I didn't want a similarly stressed-out Chinese 'Solar' stove to become a non-user, not least because it's such a useful wok stove. A 'sweated' (soft soldered) brass sheet patch to go over a number of stress cracks worked fine and adds to the character of the stove I believe Solar stove fettle John
Thanks Ron for the info. I will be searching the small local santa cruz flea markets now on this weekend. Its my b-day this weekend so maybe the stove gods will be kind to me and I get to find a old vintage gem.. By the way there is a 8R on sale on craigslist in Berkley I believe for 80 bucks. I just need to drive all the way up there to get it. Its a bout a 2hr or 2.5 hour drive for me to get it so maybe I will get to it in time. But if not I thought I would mention it to others here so a fellow CCS will get it and it will find a good home.
Tough luck on that Meva Ron, though it still looks like a nice one. I second fixing the stress cracks on this type of stove, since most of the time, it will be under low pressure and using Kerosene. With more volatile fuels, such as Coleman Fuel or Unleaded, I would not take a chance. atb, sam
