Remmber, at the begining of last century, the kerosene available was not much better than what you get in the Carribean. These burners were never...
My I jump back in? Your use of spares sounds rather high. I've a Galley Gourmet 3-burner with oven manufactued in 1979. I also have a...
First of all, let me welcome you to CCS. second, you have a problem, and it is not the caps. Buy the way, Stuga-Cabana has patria style caps...
First roar burners do not burn well on low simmer, the vaporizor does not stay hot enough. Your asking to much. If you need that low a flame,...
Low odor (or odorless) mineral spirits is better in wickies. As it does not char the wick at the burning edge. It also gives a whiter light...
Yonadav is right about the patch. Simple solder. But sence it is a pressure tank I'd solder from thr bottom with the patch on the inside. Will...
Spread a little tooth paste as a mask fotr solder. Wash off with water after. solder won't stick to mask.
The sealing takes place about half-way up the taper, so blunt or sharpe makes no difference.
If you don't know a plater to brite-zinc them, than you have to treat them as you would a fine fire-arm. Oil them with a preservitive oil....
#2 diesel is not much more than 5 gal.US. kerosene + 1qt. us. 30wt oil (20:1 mix)
There is a trick. Kerophile has some half thickness washers. After that, it's trial & error to get it to aline.
Sorry Alex, just got back to the computer, I'm in Chimacum. Glad to see all sorted out, looks great. Cheers, Dale
Sorry, the photo of the top, of the cap looks rusted thru. If not thats good. But make sure the mixer slides easy. It only moves about an...
I had that configeration burnner 30+ yr.ago. The inner cap is burned out. finfing one may be a problem. I used a kero inner about same size and...
Sounds like your missing the inner cap, or have the wrong inner cap. If the space brtween the inner and outer caps is too wide they do have a...
All plastic is permiable. Given any internal preasure (read: vapor pressure) the volitiles leach through the plastic (although very slowly)....
It is rarely stove failure. It is almost always operator error.
two reasons, I think. To stop the dreaded underburn, and to raise the fuel-air mix tempreture for greater efficiency.
Question. If the mixing tube has holes, should the inner caps also have holes?
First findout where it is leaking. Empty tank of fuel, close fuel lid and valve, pumpup some pressure and colse pump stem, than dunk, in a tub of...
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