Primus No. 2080

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  1. Oskarsweden Sweden

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    Hi everybody, does anybody know anything about a Primus Cook top with No. 2080?

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    For details below credit is due @presscall and founder: Ross

    Hello Oskar,
    **Question for you, do you know if valve stays with tank, or is part of the burner?

    The site library has catalogs from 1964, re propane, for Sievert and Primus.
    Your tank looks like one that Sievert offered and not like Primus tank of same size (not that your tank is a "Sievert" model, more later).
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    IF it is your single burner that is labeled Primus 2080... thank you for that, it's a 1st as far as I know (propane is not covered much here). Your 2080, most of it, is formed from 1 pressed sheet. May indicate later version -or-
    Devil's advocate might say economy version, in either case, approx. year unknown, for now.

    On behalf of your request I reviewed the 2 1964 catalogs (subscription needed).
    An aside: By 1963 Primus had ended production of all paraffin and petrol stoves. "Primus" propane apparatus/stove manufacturing continued into 1966.

    In 1966 Primus and Sievert merged forming Primus-Sievert AB. "Primus continued to make LP gas stoves under their own name".

    All that to explain your
    > tank's appearance (not valve) is a match to a "Sievert" tank in a '64 catalog. If it was offered after '66 I do not know maker name or model # it might have been given.
    **edit: in 64 Primus tanks did not have a valve, Sievert tanks included valve atop of tank (unless i'm missing something). That is relevant, significant and is my something new learned today.
    > your stove although No.2080 when it was made remains a mystery to me.

    A better ID of that tank and valve would be a welcome development.
    thanks for posting omc
    tag @Oskarsweden
     
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  3. Oskarsweden Sweden

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    Hi, and thank you very much for the answer.

    The Valve Is a part of the burner.

    I will post som better pictures.

    Once again thank you.

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  4. Oskarsweden Sweden

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    Here Is one more.

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    ...and there you have it. Both later models, myself I've no guess as to decade but after Primus Sievert formed in 66.

    Adding text for tank model # x-ref.:
    Primus Sievert 2006
    thx omc
     
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    https://classiccampstoves.com/threads/ab-max-sievert-svea-campus.16/


    “In the 1960's the large oil companies began to take an interest in the LPG market. In 1964 Svenska Esso acquired AB Max Sievert, who by now were also making LP gas cylinders and merged them with an earlier acquisition, Svenska Skiffoljibolaget, a LPG producer. The new Esso company was called AB Sievert Apparater. In 1966 AB Sievert Apparater took over the Primus part of the Bahco group and the new amalgamated company was called Primus-Sievert AB.
    The Sundyberg factory was closed in 1969/70 and the Svea brand was acquired by Optimus as they had done with the Primus brand nearly a decade earlier. “
     
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