Hello, Again a post of mine. I just got bored this evening. This time it is a Standard 296 which a found at a local second hand store. The seller said it was an oil lamp. Funny. The stove came with some kind of leggs. I think these were made by a previous owner to give it some height. The burner came with the extra leggs and was all complete. The box is very damaged. The lacque of the lacquer has had it best time. I think it is OK for now, so I still could use it at campingtrips. I had to replace the NRV with an Petromax NRV. Those are easy to obtain in the Netherlands. Next week I will give it a swing. So I can post some actionphoto's. Jacob
Those pointed legs are interesting and I kept coming back to your post trying to figure out why someone went to the trouble of making them. Being from Southern California where it's warm and sunny most of the time, they didn't make much sense. Then I noticed that you are in Norway where it snows in the winter. My guess is the legs are meant to stick in the snow and keep the stove above it and level. I've never camped in the snow but I can imagine this being more stable than setting the stove directly on top of the snow which might begin to melt beneath it.
That is a nice theory! Will keep that in mind. The 'leggs' are made of big nails. The heads of the nails are cut of. The pan supports also have been adjusted a bit so that the pan is closer to the burner. I can understand that in this way the burner would work better in colder conditions. Jacob
JacobLotz seems to be from Netherlands, where I believe to them to have snow not too often. Those kind of legs only would help in very hard snow or on ice. On "normal" snow those kind of short legs would not help too much. If there is more "normal" snow than length of those additional legs they would not help to keep stove on the top of the snow. Stove would sink into snow since three thin legs don't have enough surface to keep stove on the top of snow. I bet that they have added extra legs to make cooking on ground more comfortable.
Afterburner, it seems my knowledge of European geography is as bad as my stove leg theory. Thanks for setting me straight on both accounts. Damn, and I thought I was so clever coming up with that snow idea.
Hi. I have great pleasure reading through old posts here. May I offer another possible explanation to the extra «legs»: could it be to make the stove more stable on soft or uneven ground?
