Afternoon all I’ve just found one of these, can anyone help some information. What was the intended market for these, domestic, narrowboat, caravanning? Any instructions on using them What fuel to use (paraffin)? How easy is it to change the wick & can new wicks be obtained? With regards the glass fuel reservoir the ‘valve’ does not appear to have a seal, does it just rely on the weight of the fuel to keep closed. ATB James
I don't know the intended use of this stove; it looks like it may have been intended as a combination heater/burner. In the US, similar stoves were often used as cabin stoves, especially in summer when you didn't want to heat up the whole house by lighting the wood stove. The fuel is paraffin ("kerosene" in the US). There may be a wick in the tube. If so, it's just generic wicking material -- lantern wick will work fine. The burner wick is usually a circular wick of non-combustible material. I'm afraid you're just going to have to try and match it from whatever wicks you can find. I believe the "valve" wheel on your stove is just to raise/lower the wick. You're right; the weight of the fuel in the burner prevents excess kerosene from flowing from the tank. ....Arch
After filling the glass jar with paraffin one simply enters it upside down in the bottom part (as can be seen in your photo). The valve will touch the bottom and automatically open (it stays open all the time). When the stove is working, fuel will automatically flow from the bottom part to the wick. Once a certain amount of fuel is consumed, and the level in the bottom part is below a pre-detirmined level, you'll hear it "burp", air will enter the glass jar and some fuel will go out. This will continue till the jar is empty. Hope this helps! ( @jb101 )
As to the market, yes domestic, outbuilding, caravan, boat etc market. More likely leisure boat (Think Norfolk Broads yacht) than narrowboat. The cabins of working narrowboats were tiny (6'4 x 8 to 10') and almost always had a coal stove for heating and cooking. A small pressure or wick stove probably found its way onto a few to keep cooking heat levels beaarable in summer, but seriously compact would be the order of the day if so. By the time use of the canals for leisure took off in the 1960s gas had taken over.
Again thanks for all the info,having searched the net I don't seem to be able to find much info on this particular stove. I would presume as not much out there it may not have been a popular model. The fuel resevoir / feed system seems to be similar to the paraffin heaters such as their 'fyreside' model although I feel that the heater resevoir system is an improvement over the stove .
Hard to tell really, this sort of stove/heater is less popular with many collectors, so probably doesn't get a true representation.
As you can see this is the #222, it was replaced later by the 'tabletop cooker' #235 which shared parts with the bigger Rippingille ranges. Parts for the #222 are obsolete now and your stove is missing the flame spreader which means it cannot work properly. you can see from the advert above that the #222 was a 'blue flame' burner and this can only be obtained with a flame spreader in place. I have a price list of spare parts and the spreader only fitted the #222 and #777 so will be a problem. The good general condition of the stove may be down to the missing spreader. it may have been lost or 'borrowed' in the original shop and then remained unsold until much later. The eventual purchaser may have lit the cooker and been disappointed by the big yellow flames and smell so never used it again?
Thanks for the additional info,looks like i'll be on the look out for a flame spreader-wouldanyone be able to post a picture of what they look like. Thanks in advance James Just found a link on here rippingille's stove no.777
