Hi Jobmeel, It is hard to get kerosene (petroleum) on some places in the Netherlands. You could find it on the strangest places. Usually at 'bouwmarkten'. If you can't find any, you could use diesel. It is not very good for your stove but better than lampoil. I have had stoves and lamps that had been used with lamp oil and they were almost destroyed. Lampoil is very sticky, so it gets in the non return valve etc. If you live close to Delft. PM me, I might know some good places to buy fuel. Jacob
A better alternative to diesel is the red dyed mazoet used for domestic heating. It is almost identical to our "petroleum". In the Netherlands natural gas is the most popular means to heat houses, in Belgium one can find mazoet from the pump at some petrol stations. Dunno if this is the same in your area. A more expensive source is the 20liter drums at do-it-yourself markets for the modern Zibro-Camin and similar portable heaters. Groetjes, Wim
This would be perfect for a pressure stove. Doesn't it come in a smaller container? A 4 liter size would power a small stove for a long time. In the US the metal drums are being phased out. Now we get a 5 gallon box that contains two 2.5 gallon plastic containers. One gallon plastic containers are available also for $10 or $11. Ray
Hi Ray, these are plastic drums (should have mentioned that!) and so far I have not seen smaller ones. Basically because they are used for the portable heaters, and these are sometimes thirsty! As you say, perfect for a pressure stove, I bought one of these a few years back to use in mine. I now get kero from the pump at roughly half the price. Red dyed is even a little bit cheaper. We do have 1liter bottles also, but way over the top re price.... Btw, I think it is Kamin with a "K", not "C", silly me. Best regards, Wim
Just got a kerosene pump 5 minutes by bike (Netherlands). Price is a little les than 2 euro per liter. In Belgium I know a pump that sells for a little less than 1 euro per liter. Mazoet is very rare hard to get in the Netherlands. I guess it is a typical thing from Belgium Jacob
Hi Jacob, the Brits know this as 28seconds fuel or something like that. I really have to go and get some petroleum soon as my bottles are all running dry...I'll let people know what it costs at my local pump! (but roughly 0.8€ per liter). Best regards, Wim
Hi, I took delivery of 850 litres of heating oil (kerosene), as Wim describes, two days ago. It cost approx. £0.33 per litre. It is some time since it was so cheap. Best Regards, Kerophile.
George, that's a great price. It's less than $2 per US gallon. Do you use that strictly for your home heating or for stoves as well? Wim, you're lucky to have Zibro and other brands of modern kero heaters available. Zibro is a label used in Europe by the Japanese company Toyotomi which we chased out of the US along with Corona another great Japanese heater manufacturer with our continuous lawsuits. People would use gasoline in their kero heaters then sue the heater makers when they lit themselves up. Back to one of Jobmeel's posts, can you tell me what Alkan means? I can't seem to find a translation of this word. He said he used Petromax Lamp oil alkan. I hope he checks back in with an update now that other fuels in the area have been recommended. Ray
Hi Ray, i have been using this C2 kerosene successfully for all my lamps, stoves and blowlamps for many years....although it is purchased primarily for central heating of the house. Best Regards, Kerophile.
Ray, Alkan is simply the name of Petromax's "own" kerosene/paraffin. At 4.95€ a liter/bottle it is rather expensive. But it comes in handy plastic bottles. Best regards, Wim
Hi again, So i got myself a subscription, a flame ring, a 0.32 optimus pricker, and some official outdoorstore stove petroleum. I also built myself a little roarer jet nipple remover tool. Because i thought i first check the jet for wear. And the jet seems to be seriously worn. The .32 pricker can be moved around freely, so much so that i started to wonder how it could ever have gotten this far. it looks to be closer to. 0.5. @presscall : are you sure that it should be .32? I tried to find out but there isn't a lot to find on this stove. Here are some pics of the burner.
@Jobmeel Jobmeel asked me, Yes, sure. Though there's not much information on that specific make, it's very similar to an Optimus 45, same roarer burner size, same jet size. There are only a minority of stoves that require a smaller jet size (0.23mm) - early Primus 71 and Primus 4 to name a couple. John
Hi again, so i managed to fettle the jet into a tight fit again, fitted the old busted flame ring and did a new test burn. With good result! Flames are a bit uneven and a little bit orange/yellow tipped. But it's a lot easier to light.