My fav morning coffee maker. Another stove I just had to clean and fire. Flame shot is now my avatar.
Small very simple stove. Burns Coleman fuel. It has no regulator valve. On full blast or off, no in between. Good for boiling water tho.
A Taykit was one of my first acquisitions as a collectable. I remember buying it at the now defunct Puget Park Drive In Flea Market. I even remember paying five dollars for it and a half gallon of Blaze-O fuel in a gallon tin. I've got that tin yet, as well. It's prolly worth $65 or $70 on the bay of evil. I used the fuel in it long since. The Tay-Kit is, as far as I know, the only camp stove made of monel metal. That stuff is nearly space ship material. I've had to machine it, it's tougher than boiled owl and a real bugger to cut to a tolerance. It either bend out of the way of the cutter teeth and just polishes a little or the milling cutter gets a "tooth" into it and goes all to town chewing on it. I had to make fifty parts and had blanks for three hundred, getting an atta boy for getting my fifty and ruining only 80 or so blanks. My boss was thrilled and Boeing Airplane Co. was as well. No bonus, though. Figuring out the coolant and feed and speed was shooting in the dark, but luck won out. Fun and a paycheck too. I loved that job, it was like playing with electric trains and being paid for it. I've been a fortunate man. I wonder if the Kahn(Khan?)Academy has courses in Geometric tolerancing? That would keep me off the streets for a few months. Or complete my conversion into a drooling mouth breather. Gerry
A Taykit was my second stove (a gift from a favorite uncle). A bit heavy for its size and power, it is however compact, solid, simple and dependable. Also, a real attention getter when in use amongst certain campers. Never new it was Monel, but I know nothing about metal alloys. I have a couple from what I think are different manufacturers, and the cases are slightly different in darkness and reflectiveness. I don't think the difference in appearance is just age, more like they may have used a slightly different alloy.
