About time I got around to equipping a British Army No.12 stove with a proper pot rest. Bought for £5 some years ago, the pot rest was missing. A more critical missing part was the burner, so a replacement soon after acquiring the stove was an Optimus regulated burner with a suitable fuel pipe fabricated to incorporate the necessary dimensions and angles. The absent trivet prompted me to make use of an army No.2 one, sat rather inelegantly on the frame. So, today, I finally got around to making a trivet out of 5mm stainless steel rod. Here’s an example of the stock component. I wanted my trivet to resemble that, but (with an espresso pot in mind) to provide support for small diameter based pots in addition to a capacity for larger pots. Here’s what I came up with. Not an easy task, since forming bends in stainless steel obviously has to be with the material at red heat and even then it’s not nearly as malleable as mild steel is when red hot. Brazing the joints when the components had taken shape was the easy bit. I’m happy with the result. John
@presscall Well done there John on an outstanding job of the trivet, the forming around the burner is excellent John very neat and precise, all so John you have done a superb and very neat of all the brazing joints. I must admit it is very satisfying when you have crafted a missing piece of a stove, and have added some great history to the piece well done there
Missing jet and spindle nut tool also, so I made one from a 10mm deep socket wrench and an inexpensive (£5) non-return valve key from an internet source. Finally, though the windshielding on the No.12 is good, the silent burner I’ve substituted for the roarer original could benefit from a burner windshield as an Optimus 111C does. My source material was an empty one of these, a Sievert/Primus propane cylinder, which I no longer use, having moved on to Rothenberger and Bullfinch blowtorches. A Dremel cutting wheel did the bulk of the work. Priming. Primed.
