Possibly the last NOS unused Markill Stormy in the world.

A very nice Italian member of this group, agreed to sell me his NOS Markill Stormy, which I have been looking for since hooligans burned mine and my car with it 10 years ago.
It has been out of production more than 15 years and this one has a piezo igniter as well.

 

@pbekkerh
I’m glad you’ve eventually found a replacement, courtesy of Nicola (I’m thinking).

Can you explain its advantages?

Next question, do those benefits prompt you to use it, given its incommon (even more so NOS) status?

John

 

It is very compact, will accommodate a gas can inside, effective with the pot all the way inside the windshield AND it will go through the small forward hatch in a seakayak, where even a Trangia 27 won't.
I mostly cook water for tea and freezedried as i hate washing up, especially on tour.

AND I don't want criminals and hooligans to win, so I always buy the same items( or better) again that were stolen or damaged.

And I'm so used to it. Bought the first in 1985. Had it with me kayaking in Greenland and Polynesia, climbing in Europe, cycling Morocco etc. :-)

As for the next question, I might just postpone the decision by putting it in my spares/backup stock. Maybe transfer the piezo to my other Stormy in my(new same) car.

I have a good spares stock. My insurance against obsolescence, which happens within 1-2 years for so many items nowadays.

 

@pbekkerh
Plenty of good reasons there, thank you for the explanation.

I applaud your determination to stick two fingers up to the bad guys! Not the same, but I keep buying Subarus in spite of head gasket failures …

 

@presscall

I have a Subaru Outback 2005, is it one of the models subject to head gasket failure?

 

@SimonFoxxx
(Apologies to @pbekkerh for a topic drift)
A 2004 3-litre flat six engined Legacy, designation H6, not particularly prone to a blown head gasket Simon, but at 120,000 miles without bother I wasn’t too put out. I’ve a newer example of the same model now, so fingers crossed! I should have said “a head gasket failure” and not failures plural. The two-and-a-half litre flat fours are supposedly more prone to letting go in that respect.

 

Outback very similar body to the Legacy. Mine has a Boxer engine, which I understand is a "flat four". i will ask my local mechanic. 120,000 miles being 192,000 kilometres is pretty good going.

 

Was the Markill made to suspend from the ceiling of a tent?

 

Anywhere really, maybe a branch but it was marketed as a climbing stove, to hang on the rock when climbing several days bigwall climbs.