This sort of reminds me of the very large Lima Dragline i was attached to for a while. The oiler, or operating engineer would pull start a...
No time to shop yet......barely time to make tea. Needs a careful balancing act. Piper [ATTACH]
Great pics. I wonder about all the "spare parts" or were they off and you soldered the whole stove back together? Interesting burner and nice...
Thanks to all. If i had thought for a moment i would have done a search and found all i needed, and save a billion electrons from having to...
Thanks......never thought of looking for a new one. I guess my thrifty upbringing still directs my life. Ok.....not thrifty.....TIGHTWAD....
After having seen at least a million stoves here and another quarter million on eBay...and the half dozen or so which have moved into my mud room,...
Doc....TOMORROW is always a special day in our lives. Much better than TODAY , at least in theory, and usually far better than yesterday. Of...
Gerry, Raman Noodles.....yes sirree....let's do lunch sometime. I eat them nearly every day, 210 calories of goodness and no muss, no fuss....
Yup, i agree with you others, great story. Makes me glad that only little stoves foul up and COMPUTERS NEVER DO. :^o True true on the...
Bryan, I just now inverted a soda can, put a half a capful of the thinner into the depression and attempted to light it with a pocket lighter....
Thanks all, esp. Kerophile, for the many links and details. Yes, I have been fiddling....fettling...with my Primus 210 but also have an Optimus...
I wonder if there is a silent burner which will fit a Primus 201 or the like. I further wonder if the silent burner sold by St Paul Mercantile...
My 210, the first kero pressure stove I ever owned, never really did run right There was always too much yellow on the flame tips. Finally, I...
loco7stove, nice job, but it will show up better in the pics if you simply sweep all the bits and parts and other stoves, tools and spares into a...
"I'll skip the stoves for now, but their Van der Graaf generators promise hours of amusement. " Gee, wonder if there is a Van de Graaf Generator...
I was surprised to see that four-head kero burners are still being manufactured. No idea of quality, but perhaps for the medical industry they...
Actually, i found one in the Bay of Evil, sent the nice man the equivalent of a day's pay in about 1980 and he's shipping it right out....
Just received my order of magic fill-cap gaskets from THE FETTLEBOX today. I rushed home after work and put them in my 111T, two 123's and my...
Yes, that makes two of us who could use a pump. I have a 1950 version, mfg 1965, sans pump. Is there a supply of them squirreled away...
Yes Doc, that's it exactly. Your old reference was to an Optimus valve. IMHO the same action applies in either case. Do what is best to...
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