I just realized that I seem to buy desirable stoves but projects in a sense... Others may call them train wrecks. We have ourselves another stove from hell. This one I will have to say is the sludge king... I've never seen gas so bad. I don't even think it's gas....it smells like tar. I'm in the middle of it now having a few days off....and at least this one isn't covered in bird shit like my last radius 43... But I suspect when the previous owner paints these stoves periwinkle blue I should see that as caution. The only thing I can see that's missing is the jet. That's not a problem as I found a substitute for one. This stove is glued together with resin...I don't know how to describe it. I couldn't move the knob for a while until I warmed it up... Then haha.... Well... The photo speaks for itself The wick is sludged up and just simply broke apart like chocolate Reaching into the tank I could grab the other side....also covered in shit...I mean sludge I cannot blow air through this...so decided to take it to the vise and burn the shit out... The SRV in the cap was also glued shut...and had to warm it up but it came apart easier.... Rest of the parts seem ok. To be continued....I need to get something to rinse the tank out as it's full of sludge. Running hot water melted out a lot but want to clean it more More later!
Yikes! That stove is in rough condition. I'd fill the tank half full of gasoline and shake it around to dissolve the sludge. Either that or use Acetone. Ben
@Remus1956 Putting the tank in hot water (not boiling) with the acetone in the tank, will loosen up the tar residue more effectively. Pharael.
@z1ulike @Pharael oh that worked. I ended up leaving the tank submerged in acetone. When I initially put the tank in, as I poured the acetone it was coming out the other side like coffee. I took it out to look at it about an hour later, and most if not all was gone, but the walls look "grimy" so I am going to drop some small nuts and screws in there, and shake the hell out of it with some acetone in it and rinse until clear. Believe it or not, but there is a vesta tank inside this jar....
So while waiting on Christmas dinner I decided to take the Vesta to an acetone bath and begin painting.... Lots of pitting from the rust.... But got it all off. After this I coated the legs in a high heat ceramic that I like to use. And the rest is just to assemble it! I like to put a blanket of carbon felt under in case I need to preheat it. Here is the periwinkle blue house paint previous (with lots of under paint rust) Here is my after. All this needed was a jet which I subbed from a campus 5 stove (this stove was completely missing the jet) Thanks for looking!
