Hello, my dear fellow stovies! I have a small but slightly difficult i problem... The other day, I bought a small Meta stove, but it doesn't have any markings revealing the model name/number... So I reckoned that someone maybe know something about this... It is quite small, about 8 centimetres across, and maybe 5 centimetres high when packed, as in the first picture below... Please if someone knows anything about this, I would really appreciate if you just let me know what model this is... I have a Meta 71 which is maybe 2 centimetres bigger across... I have been searching all over internet, but searching for Meta at internet find a lot of Meta strings... :/ I have found two references to Meta stoves, of which one was from my own homepage... The other was at Stove Collector, and had no picture or other references... Thanks for having read this far... Regards /Jörgen
Hi Jörgen, I've a Meta 71 myself, including its original instructions (although entitled 'META No. 80 Traveller Cooker' and (in German) 'META 1 Liter-Kocher Nr. 80' - so there must have been a much larger version). Compared to that, I wonder if your smaller stove isn't just some nameless copy; it having no marks whatsoever and - judged from the handles - being not of the same quality as real Meta's? Just my guess, Jur
Hi Ross! OK, so then it must be a Meta-42... It is a real Meta stove, but it has no markings about the model number, as the Meta-71 has... Thanks a lot for the help! Regards /Jörgen
Hmm.. just to clarify things regarding this stove... Jur and Ross: It is not a copy, it HAS markings, saying that it is built by Meta-werke, Suisse, but it doesn't say what model it is... (The Meta-71 has got "Meta-71" on the lid, but this smaller variant hasn't.) Here is my Meta-71: http://hem.passagen.se/josv/stoves/stoves_images/Meta/Meta71/index.html So the manufacturer is Meta, but the model is unknown... or rather it was.. I will from now on call it a Meta 42! (btw, Ross, I saw the new advert for Meta 1933! That's very nice!) Does anyone know when Meta-werke stopped making those Meta stoves? It would be nice to have some kind of manufacturing period for those little stoves.. thanks again! /Jörgen
What an appealing little unit. The cup reminds me of a style very popular on the west coast of America, it's called the Sierra Cup and is still made by several companies in aluminum, tinned steel and stainless steel. I had one when I was a youth. I made up a cup of instant broth in it one chilly afternoon, high in the Washington Cascades. After one sip, I air mailed that "Toy of Satan" far into a rockslide of huge boulders, never to be seen again. Once the blister on my lip healed, I vowed never again to drink from a cookpot filled with boiling hot liquid. There's a reason cups are generally not made of metal. Gerry
My META says META-71 (on the cup's cover), N. 71 / made in switzerland / META S.A. Basle / trade mark reg. / META / mod.int.dep (on the cup's bottom), and META / made in switzerland / fabr. suisse / mod.int.dep (on the 'stove's' bottom). The pricetag is still on the lid, amounting to Dfl 4,95 - probably many many years ago, because the stove was found when a very old attic was cleaned. With it were the aforementioned instructionsheet ('printed in switzerland', but no date) + a packet of 20 META solid fuel blocks, priced at Dfl 1,-. Fascinating stuff. It's the first time I took so close a look at this META, which was just standing around on a cupboard. But I think now I'll just put it back and leave it there. Jur
Hi! Interesting story there Gerry, I seriously hope you didn't burn your lips very badly! There is always something to learn from a good story, and from the things I think I learned from your, I think I just put this little potential threat to my kissing ability in the cupboard, simply having it for the looks rather than its' capabilities... Jur! You don't think that it would be possible for you to scan that instruction for the Meta 71, to put here on the CCS? I was thinking of doing so with the box for the Meta-71 I have, even though it is printed in Swedish. The instructions are actually printed on the side of the box... You can see the box in some of the pictures here: http://hem.passagen.se/josv/stoves/stoves_images/Meta/Meta71/index.html Among other things, it says that you can actually steamboil two or three eggs in it! If I remember correctly, one Meta block will get them soft boiled... Thanks all for your hints, comments and warnings Regards /Jörgen
Hi, I read this thread with interest as I have a Meta I bought a couple of years ago at a 'loppis'. From Ross' 1940 catalogue it looks to be a Meta 75 (you learn something every day). The base looks like Jörgens Meta 71 (or 42) rather than the catalogue illustration but has the egg cooker and measure. No tea infuser.. but it doesn't look to ever have had the hook under the lid mentioned on the catalogue. A newer model? Thought you might like a photo... now I know what it is! http://www.zippyimages.com/files/78927/meta_75.jpg // Paul P.S. ..any chance of seeing those instructions Jörgen? (..�ven p� svenska?)
Gerry is right, the Sierra Cup is one of the worst cups going. Strictly cold drinks or display! Iain May the Spirits smile on everything to touch our lips!
Hi Paul!! Sorry for the delayed response, but I've been on vacation... No internet for 4 weeks! Well, I will fix the instructions, for the Meta-71, but that can take a while.. (I have to put some stuff together at home first.. find the scanner, and so forth... :-) But It will be done! Regards /Jörgen
Ex army meta used to be sold here in NZ in white packets as well as commecial meta sticks. The white packets contained 8 tablets and all fitted neatly inside a small folding tin burner unit. Pretty useful cookers really but I thought meta was not very efficient heat wise and was a bit heavy. I used to use the broken sticks to preheat my 8R. Meta stinks of ammonia when it is blown out before the block has burnt out. I understand that during the communist "insurgency" in Malaya in the 50's, the NZ and Australian forces could be located due to the smell of meta by the enemy.
This thread is a good example to show why we now insist on not using third-Party hosting of images. Non of the links in this thread work because the images are no longer available. This means that the thread loses a large part if its content.
I'd wondered what it was that Tony Lumley resurrected a 9-year-old thread to say. If there's a query about META stoves in prospect - maybe to identify a particular model - this (still working) LINK to an early catalogue should help John
