Here is the same as this but complete with the cast iron stand. I have a note that this might be a model number 202 but have no evidence. I haven't seen it in any catalogue. All I know that Mirus made a number of various stoves all named in the 200-series. Bo
@optipri Thanks for posting that, Bo, it's good to see a complete example. Is there an inner cap or perhaps the cap we see in your photos is of a 'converter' cap construction incorporating inner and outer caps? I used a blowlamp to prime mine but I suppose a lighting torch soaked in alcohol was used originally, would you agree? John
Those French enameled stoves are beautiful. I don't see a fill cap so apparently the whole pump has to be removed to put fuel in the tank. Nice they provided the huge wing nut to get it out. Interestingly, "BREVETE" translates to "Patented" and "S.G.D.C." stands for "Sans Garantie Du Gouvernement" which translates to "No Warranty From the Government". Ben
It's amazing how many times you see these with Brevete SGDC given as the maker. I think I did on the original manufacturers list many years ago.
@z1ulike That's right Ben in respect of the pump having to be removed. No wingnut on mine or evidence there was one however. Looking closely at Bo's example, the knurling on my pump grip appears to be absent on his, so it suggests there was a change made in that detail. John
@presscall I have to remove the pump on my PYRO to fill the tank also. The pump design looks a lot like your MIRO. Ben
The design with a combination of filler hole and pump is absolutely not rare. Take for example all Tilley's. But, as some of you mention, French items are special in design. And the standard lettering you find on most all items is also unique. I don't know if the flame spreader is original but i fits fine and there is no inner cap. Concerning the pre heating, is this surely a kerosene stove or does it use gasoline? I don't know many words of French but when translating petrole it means oil. If trying with petrol only, it is gasoline. However the translation for gasoline i essence. I haven't test it so I don't know but from what I can read you have, John. The burner itself has a double loop that tells it should be one for kerosene. Maybe some of our French members are able to make this thing clear. Bo
Kerosene would be my guess but it is confusing. On French stoves you often see "Gaz de Pétrole" which translates to "petroleum gas" which isn't much help. However, this French price list of Radius kerosene burners shows them as "gaz de pétrole" Ben
Essence (or sometimes essence de pétrole) on a stove means it is build to run on gasoline/petrol/benzin(e). Pétrole is paraffin/kerosine/petroleum. Gaz de pétrole simply means gasified paraffin/kerosine (no stove burns liquid para/kero but the gasified stuff as it comes out of the vaporiser/generator. This is what we see burning. In fact, they use this way of describing to compare it to natural gas/city gas/butane&propane. Adverts often claim a stove to burn "as quiet as a gas stove". Hope this helps, Wim
I'm sure that kerosene was the intended fuel as you suggest, Bo, Wim and Ben. Although I didn't have the original jet and used an Enders substitute (so had no way of being certain what the original jet orifice size was) the clincher for me was that the burner maintained vapourisation on kerosene and didn't require the greater volatility of gasoline to do so. John
Nice stove Bo! Kerosene/paraffin for sure; "essence" is the French key word for gasoline/petrol/benzin! Mirus is the successor of the Pinchard (Pinchard & Moreau) company with the brand name of "Gaz Blue Petrole". Here is a Pinchard "Gaz Blue Petrole" heater of mine with a very similar burner as on your stove. Mine also equipped with an outer dome cap as it is a heater...........http://www.classicpressurelamps.com/forum/showtopic.php?tid/9765/post/new/#NEW /Conny
That link resolves my questions about the original burner caps (there clearly is an inner and an outer cap) and priming using an alcohol-soaked priming torch. Thanks Conny. John
