Appreciate everyone that kicked me in the ass to get me to try soldering the tank pump. At a point of time I had tried to get it going (or a decent job at soldering) at 8 hours. Even the wife gave me a pass and said "I think this is the one... Well maybe you can't fix it" A fresh night of sleep and a different perspective in my morning messages from you all got my ass motivated to try again. I'm just looking at it now... Tomorrow it will make my morning coffee. Appreciate it
Thanks for sharing your journey on this project. You persevered and did an amazing job bringing it back to life! In understand the greater affection for an item that was a major PITA to repair.
@TSPORT you have no idea. One of the main things was that it looked like someone else wrenched on it to try to get it to work which usually compounds the situation as you got to undo what they did. This had an already mangled nrv which the only way to get it out was to remove the pump.... Which the person had tried before and it was trashed. After fixing the pump tube the next thing was the spirit cup fell apart... Fixed that with silbrazing .. It leaked fuel a little and from the connector where it the burner bolts to the tank.... It's all settled down now though... Oh yeah ..I used it actually this morning for coffee... I'm quite fond of it after all the knife fight this stove and I went through. And just think I was just fine to send this cursed stove to @Pharael like some weird voodoo doll.... But I'm glad I got lots of advice and confidence from this forum.
I hadn't noticed this post until now. It has been restored so beautifully from its original state. The gunmetal? color is pretty cool too.
@Camp numao thanks man! Yeah I am slowly bringing it back. I have sourced a few windscreen thats more what they used (reproduction radius 43) as you see in the photo, and I have now a source for the original key/tool coming in. The paint is a mix of two, high heat ceramic paint (flat black) and something called "new cast iron" dark graphite gray high heat engine enamel.
