Here are some photos of the Taylor's 030 reassembled and fired up. Thanks for advice. Running the burners at full heat appears to burn off the old carbon/junk and the orange flames slowly turn all blue. In these pictures you'll see a new burner on the left. Shortly afterwards it suddenly died. After some research in the archives I decided it was fuel starvation. Several troubleshooting steps later I pulled the burner and checked the balancing jet underneath. Sure enough it was clogged. Removed it for cleaning and all was well again. Based on progress with right burner I reinstalled the original left (old) burner and it is now progressing nicely towards an all blue flame. Last, look at the photo of the oven thermometer. It's over 500 degrees! Amazing. Sam
Hi Sam , you have made a great job of fettling your Taylor's cooker. I bet you have learnt a lot in carrying out this work. This type of burner is very powerful , with each one producing around 2.5 kW at full power. Nice cooker and photos, Best Regards, Kerophile.
Good Morning, sail843, Excellent job of fettling your stove, Sir!! Looks like it's going to work a treat when you get it installed aboard your boat!! Thanks for sharing, and God Bless! Every Good Wish, Doc
Hi Sam, A splendid work you have done! I would love to have a stove like that, or two! I could use one in my workshop and one at the farm to complement the wood burning stove. I would love to see some action shoots if you get it running in your boat! /Lars
Morning, sail843, and All, Sam, is it possible for you to take some good photos of the oven burner setup, please? I'd also like to see the fuel tank(s), and see how all three burners are connected to it/them. Seeing your fine stove in action, has given me a very interesting idea for a future project, and if you could help out a bit more with these details, it's very possible that my thoughts on this can be worked into something fun! Thanks, very much, and again, well done on your Taylor stove. God Bless! Every Good Wish, Doc
Thanks to all for kind words. It will be a while before I have action shots -- the boat "fettling" is quite a bit more extensive.... but that's what I get for having a 35 year old boat. Doc, I will get you the pictures this evening. I did learn a lot about these stoves... they're a little different than the camp stoves. Would it be worthwhile for me to create a "Taylor's Fettling Lessons" posting? -- Sam
Hi Sam Do you still have the simmering rings , which fitted over the burners to reduce the heat output further? Best Jim
Yes. In an embarrassment of "riches" I also have a complete Taylor's 028 stove that I got a couple of years ago off Craig's List for $200. All the key components are same for 030 so I have full spares for stove top, simmering rings, 2 burners and small hardware for fraction of replacement cost. -- Sam
It's good that you have all that. I think that you would get your money back and with a profit very easily if you choose to sell I don't think that these cookers are still in production now. The manufacturers website - http://www.blakes-lavac-taylors.co.uk/index.htm - hasn't been updated for a long time (10 years) and I hear that there's a problem getting hold of replacement adjustable burners. Generally paraffin cookers have gone out of style on boats here in UK. Gas is nearly universal with a tiny few using alcohol cookers. But still a handful of die-hards using kero/paraffin in spite of the exorbitant cost of the fuel here. Best Jim
Good job on the Taylors rebuild...I had been searching for a cooker built by them for my schooner rebuild and found a Taylors in New England for $1350..new, unused...so your small Taylors for $200 is a super great deal..! New ones no longer being built and the remaining in good shape only getting more valuable (to those of us who cook on kero)
Taylors 028 is still made to order and at a price (nearly £3,000) and their heaters are still available too.
