WOED - World Optimus Eight Day

Well the site opened just in time!

These 8's are all pre the later No:8R with built in cleaning needle.

This is an old No:8 I recently bought online from Oxfam! £5 plus postage - just under £10 all in. Likely from the 1940- 50's.

It's rough & the key holder has been riveted where the spot weld has broke but it's a goer after a new cap & safety valve washer:



This second one is the same model but restored. The original blue paint was a bit lighter than the paint used.




This one is an earlier model - possibly 1930's to 40's. It is a steel case with some sort of plating on it. The key holder is held in place by a brass rivet. The safety valve is fitted to the underside of the lid. The fuel feed-pipe for the burner is soldered to the tank unlike the later ones that screw out. This one is out of action as it needs a burner as the valve spindle has snapped inside.

 

Well i hope this is the place so here is mine

 

Nice vid!

Not quite the right place so you got merged into a post in the right place - the power of CCSv3!

 

"O" stands for Optimus, and "O" stands for Olympics. Here's my interpretation of 08/08/08



And of course we mustn't forget this is the ninth anniversary of 08/08/99, so here's a picture from way back when

 

Well, I'll follow up with my WOED try out

here is some food:
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up close:

carrot and peas:
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Tomato soup:
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A nice bowl of soup:
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and the carrot and peas with some chicken breast from the oven.

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hmmm, let's eat

 

Aaah!
I can see that you use Maggi Würze, Arjan!
I have almost become addictive to that stuff.
When we take our trips down to Germany in order to load the car full of good and cheap beer, I always try to get a year's consumption of Maggi with me aswell.

 

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very good for in your soup, on your macaroni and what not

 

I even portion it all over the pizza!

 

Well, I couldn't let this day pass without lighting a couple of 8's! (One 8 and one 8R)
I just barely made it in time, but when I write this it's actually the 9:th.
I didn't have anything to cook since it's midnight, and I'm up early tomorrow (today), so there wasn't any real action shots.

An old battered cactus had the good taste to honor this special day by going to bloom, and I couldn't resist to let it in since it only bloom one single night during the year.

 

Hello Ross & the rest of the contributors on this wonderful site. I am a collector and restorer of gas pressure appliances. I live in Michigan, USA. I caught wind of WOED day and thought that it would be an oppotune time to make my first post. I hope that the pics of my Optimus 8R's upload OK


Thanks for the great site!

Glenn

GasPrescue

 

So I decided to take some photos of my 8r for the WOED. My 8r is what you would call a user stove. I picked it up a while back on e-bay. Some of you may recall the fact that it had been shot prior to my aquisition. I got a new-used case for it without bullet holes.

 

...So I had some tea. Then my phone rang. It was a co-worker who lived across town... He had found something at a garage sale that he thought might interest me...

UN FRIGGIN BELIEVABLE

 

Well,....it's my first time on CCS V3 (very nice) and all I have to say is HAPPY 8-8-08 DAY!!!!

I had big plans of photographing a 8 on top of a mountain overlooking Pittsburgh,...but that didn't happen and I almost forgot!!! (it's 11:55pm here and the day is all but gone)

Desk top photos,...I hope these quick cell phone pics will do.

 

Evening, Friends,

Sweet Bride and I setup some 8R's and had a fine time cooking beef stroganoff and noodles on them! Took some fun photos, too. Unfortunately, I'm at a loss as to how to post them! I can add them, but they seem too large, even though I took them in 640x480 size. Do I need to do Thumbnails? And if so, how do I accomplish that task? Does each photo have to be under 60K file size, or does your entire post, complete with all photos have to stay under that size? I have 14 photos to include, and even in the small size, they add up to far more than 60K! I know I will have to relearn some stuff here at the new CCSv3, and that's cool. But, until I do that, I'm at a loss as to how to post photos. Ye Gods, shades of PhotoBucket!!! Happy 8-8-08!!! Take care, and God Bless!

Every Good Wish,
Doc and Sweet Bride

 

Thanks & welcome to the forum. I good time to join us - it's likely more difficult for the regulars here being used to the old place

Posts with straight pictures of stoves should ideally be placed in the relevant Stove Reference Gallery. As this is a WOED post I will merge this to the WOED post in the Event Gallery.

 

Doc - there's more to size than the width & height - what is the file size in kb?

 

Well dug me 99 out as I ain't got a 8r. Hope it qualifies.
Aint used it for a while.
No Shellite to be found in town in the normal places So I ended up getting some from Bunnings in the big smoke. Boy they don't miss you there!!!
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Must have dripped a bit over the side filling up as I turned it up side down to heat the burner head with the lighter and a bit dripped out.So I lit that up on an angle to heat the tank. then cracked the valve and before long it was up and running Took a bit but I think a dry wick and a bit full may not have helped much.

Just pouring a cuppa.
Hell I might even put a pricker in it one day again!! Still works besides having to braze the burner basket on an all that.
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Cheers
Barra (bloody devils fooled things)Got to love'em but!!!!

 

In observance of WOED, I cooked my afternoon ramen, and some mashed potatoes and Lipton tea, on one of my 8Rs. A wonderful time was had by all.

 

Morning, Ross,

Thanks for the shout! The first photo we took is 143kb, the second is 138kb, the third, 124kb, etc., and the total size of all 14 photos is 1.9MB. Too large, eh? What do I do next? Our little Nikon is set to take photos as small as it can take, so I'm not sure what will help in this case. As a related note, my article on rebuilding the MSR stoves and pumps contains 47 photos, and they are similar in size as the ones we took last night. Interesting, eh? Thanks for any suggestions you can offer, and I'll talk to you soon. We're off to spend a day running errands down the mountain, including picking up some JBL cabinets and components for the dream speaker system I've wanted to build for the last 30 years!! Take care, and God Bless!

Every Good Wish,
Doc

 

Doc,

Like you, I was having some trouble with the sites loading procedure (size was my issue too) so I just did it the old way, for now, using photobucket. It worked.