I was given a British military N0 2, a few pics are in the stove ref gallery i am at the moment caring out a full fettle/restoration, i am not very familiar with this model, and have a couple of little query's regarding it , The first query i have is in the above pic of the fuel and tube what the burner basket is screwed on to, should the be any brass gauze to maintain vaporization of the fuel like on a lipstick burner, even though this is a petrol burning stove, and petrol is a lot more volatile than paraffin, but both these parts are made of steel except the burner basket, which is brass as usual, would this be able to maintain fuel vaporization The second query is in the pic below, is the control knob,there is a locking nut securing it to the valve stem, it has been soldered in place, the question is, is this a repair from a previous owner or was it done at the factory. i want to desolder it to disassemble it to make repacking the union a easier and better job. theres no point asking me mate who gave me the stove as it was given to him a while back, any help would be very much appreciated.
@mr optimus I had one of these once but gave it away. I still have the twin-burner version (the No.3) and on that and the No.2 I had there was no gauze there and the control knob(s) were soldered up as yours is. John
Hy Brain, I haven't fund any gauze in mine, but it would not hurt to fit some. Might help with vapourizing. The soldering on the control knob is standard, they all come like this. John is faster than me, beat me with a couple minutes, but I'm glad he can confirm my thoughts on this.
And I’m glad too that we didn’t contradict each other Wim! It’s logical what you suggest Brian about the steel components maybe hindering vapourisation but in practice vapourisation has been easily achieved and maintained with the one’s I’ve encountered. Probably the burner’s sheltered position in the heavy-gauge box contributes a lot to that.
Thank you very much john, for you your help that has been very useful, being has its changed several hands you never know what former owners have done, I've not seen one of these type up close
