Dave Gibson, never let the lack of proper tooling cause you to miss the opportunity to botch something up. This would have gone easier if i...
So, after a year of not messing with any stove beyond simply making coffee once in a while I dived in to the most complex repair I have ever done...
Magikbus, i have been making them from an old brass kick plate off the lower part of an old door. I still have not figured out all the...
Without planning ahead or really studying the issue I somehow "won" an auction today for yet another Primus 71. Of course, after bidding as i...
Another one of those times when we all say, "Dang, why didn't I think of that?"
Putting vise grips on ones nuts has a rather ominous sound to it. How about "vise grips on the burner spindle" ? I tried the proper metric end...
The variety of old stoves never fails to amaze me. Just when i think i've seen all the various set-ups then one like this pops up.
I shredded some pure cotton kitchen twine and made a wick and lo and behold the old 123 fires up and runs. It seems a little quieter than the...
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I finally got it off, using the "locking pliers and brass hammer" method of many-small-taps. Sounded like the drum corps was setting tempo in...
I could not resist.....and bought another Svea 123 on DeBay. It was affordable and some of you all may have seen it. Stained totally black and...
Just like my Punker. It is almost my favorite stove at work to make coffee in the old percolator. With the price of alcohol it gets a little...
Matukat, the common knowledge inside the business is that "retirement" means being found, face down, at the bench. Sadly, this is more fact than...
Sometimes it keri and sometimes it's spirit. Sort of depends what I want to burn and what is handy. Here's an option...using my brassie and a...
I have always wished i had a Svea 123 which would burn like all the rest but sound like a nice maple campfire on the shore of a rocky lake in the...
Being a Shaw myself on my dear departed mother's side and a member of Clan Shaw, I'd own one of them just to make tea when I felt like it....
I had a similar experience with one of mine, almost identical symptoms. When i got around to removing the jet and adding a stroke or two of...
Mine, although having been through the first Gulf War and treated to military mis-use burns hot, as Doc says, a real screamer. I had to replace...
I sometimes camp with a fellow who has lost flashlights, latrine shovels and other tools , all fashionably camo patterned. Proof that camo really...
The old wreck of a stove the jet was on seemed to be running "cool"......after a new cap gasket, new NRV pip, new NRV gasket and new pump...
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