I'd some fettling work to do to get to the point where I could take this Meva on an outing but here it is in the great outdoors I took along a Svea 123 and Juwel 34 for a comparison photo The Meva got the honour of brewing up - silicone kettle Missing from the Meva was the spanner (wrench) control lever extension. The stove has a spindle valve control along the axis of the burner riser and not at right-angles to it (as the Svea or Juwel have). The photo sequence below illustrates I made the control spanner using a piece of steel tubing flattened at one end to fit the end of the control lever on the stove and silbrazed it to a bargain-basket purchase open-ended spanner. A refinement was to cut a jet nipple section shaped hole in its middle to remove and replace a jet Here it is in use Next job to do was to make a flame ring. Here's the burner without it ... and with it I think the component parts were from a kitchen stove flame ring in stainless steel (been in the oddments drawer for years so can't remember where it originated) and I'd to silbraze the flared portion to a flange to fit the burner basket The most noticeable difference in using the stove without the flame ring - which a previous owner obviously had - was the scorching of the top of the windshield where the flame (more flat than with the flame ring in place) impacted on it Flame ring directs the flame away from the windshield and more usefully at the pot base Without flame ring ... ... and with it Simmer control's good
Having that 'proper' spanner/wrench/control as opposed to one stamped out of plate makes it a functional tool for dismantling/reassembly - done here during my walk, just because I could! Some details - the on and off markings on the windshield (in Czech) Good definition to the engraving Number at the centre of the base. It's been suggested in another post on this stove type in the Forum that this signifies a year of manufacture of 1959. Plausible Stove tank is a clip fit in the windshield - not too tight a fit fortunately Fuel cap sealing arrangement, the raised lip ensuring that the nitrile seal isn't squashed out of position when the cap is screwed tight - but hand tight is sufficient, though the spanner's useful to break the seal to undo it I changed the pip (which was rock-hard) in the fuel cap safety release valve. Curious thing, the cap seal is an identical size to that for a 3-piece Coleman fuel cap, which I had in stock from this source - "The recollection of quality remains long after the price is forgotten." - well said I could add 'Meva 2140' to that list. Fuel cap popped back on the Coleman 500A John
Original tank lid was lead... some - most - examples has missing flame ring that stove w/o flames ring is hm... "to hot to shut off" first - meva
CC fuel? You mean the white benzine (Aspen 4 brand) the Meva is fuelled on? And the amount I use annually!!!???
I have a similar Meva - And I can positively beyond any doubts confirm that the lever should not be touched while the stove is running
What an interesting alternative to the more usual fare at that size. A new one on me, and that valve arrangement is very different to most. Thanks for sharing John. Rob.