I've had this old cast iron range for a few years but only just stripped it down for a de-rust & polish with old fashioned hearth & grate black. It was 3 removable rings - the outer two have fins to raise the pan slightly whereas on the centre there is no gap. A flap at the front is lifted so the stove can be slid into place. The flap has a small hole. This is to take the split-ring on the chain attached to a metal heat deflector that sat on the spirit-cup of the stove to protect it from reflected heat. The outer rings are no good for boiling as I discovered. Reading the catalogues, idea was to boil on the centre ring & then move the pan to an outer ring. By doing this it was possible to keep one main boiling & 2 just off the boil. From around 1922 these became less ornate. Earlier models were very similar but were denoted No:100's.
Ross, that is a wonderful, beautiful, rare and very desirable piece of kit. The hearth black has brought up the detail a treat!
Hello Ross. That is really treasure ! Very nice color and looking best condition!! Thanks for sharing . Gunsoo
Damnation! I just turned green..... I need a bigger shed. What a beauty, just the pictures make me smile! /Lars
Hi Ross. That is just beautiful. What an excellent job restoring it. On a side note what is it sitting on? Wood, stone, marble? It looks pretty neat.
Simply elegant, the essence of old school masters of craft. Excellent all around ,you are the man Spiritburner Thanks for the great photos and sharing this with us. Kind regards, John
Thanks guys - it'd be hard not to like such workmanship! Restoration was easy - strip down, wire brush on drill, reassemble & apply paste then buff. Just had to make sure nothing got dropped with it being cast iron. The table it's on is reclaimed teak.
I think we ought to get this one back to Sweden as fast as possible. What a lovely stove, must be one of the nicest ever made. Joakim
Thanks Ross, That is awesome. A beautiful form and it simply doesn't get any better. I'm thankful John added the image showing a stove (assume No.1100 functions w/No. 1 / 5 basic 2 pinter). Ah yes, "function", I pondered on that. I highly doubt it would ever manage the rolling boil of 2 large pots and a kettle (it's illustration may give that impression) but does seem it's a clever option to get 2-3 cooking grates from 1 basic burner. It is easy to see 1 burner cooking it's 1 center pot directly above the flame (there could also be a center cover plate in-place but center is still the hottest spot). With 1 pot on the only vents are on the far R & L, which increases the heat delivered across the full width of the rangetop. As such R & L might soon become 2 nice warmers. To function it must also deliver cooking heat to the grates on the L & R. I note it is only on the L & R that there are dimples surrounding the grates. I imagine step 1 is getting a larger center pot boiling / hot. My "guess" is then the cover plate can be removed from a side grate. The large boiling pot is then set atop the dimples of the now open side grate (The center grate then covered w/it's cover plate or the next pot). The venting created by the dimples under the pot now directs almost all the venting heat to that pot. I expect the pot may even continue to boil, which if so, would be impressive (being farther from the flame). Here's another possible twist, the flip front may be entirely to check flame? but cooking with that open would also decrease the heating of the R & L side (if you wanted less heat across the whole top / fewer child fingers burned). I accept I may be entirely wrong above but the engineer in me can't help but consider, ok, but "how does that work", and that's my guess. thx again omc
The flap allows the stove to be slid out. It does show it open in one of my pics but there's nothing to hold it open. I just got the flap to bind for the photo. If anyone's wondering - the No:100 version tagged to this thread has been given a thread of it's own. https://classiccampstoves.com/threads/primus-no-100-range.33426/
Spirit burner, your a god send. I have had on of those for years, found under my house cleaned it up looks beautiful and tried to imagine what infrastructure was missing, you know tank piping etc. Then I followed a thread about heat deflector an then this, if you could see my smile it's a mile wide.I have an old Primus No 5 just prefect for the job. Now too find heat deflector. cheers Alex
Hi @Toad of the Cape, you can perhaps make one from seeing a Primus heat shield shown in this post: https://classiccampstoves.com/threads/primus-heat-shield.9950/ Best Regards, Kerophile.
