@Spiritburner Thanks. @ Don Octavio As a Dutchmen you maybe understand French. This is a discussion in a French forum about such a lamp. One of...
My posting was not intended to disappear in the corner for dogfood and hairstyling! I hoped to maybe hear something more about the history of...
@DonOctavio These lamps appear from time to time in France. In French lamp-forums they are known and discussed without a conclusion. I see them...
Hello @Krisse and @tretrop Usually the mixing tube ends flush with the top of the inner cap. However, most burners performs well, even with...
@Thomas Karlmann What happens, if you fill the spare canister of your car up to the top and place it in the sun? Something similar happens in...
When filled to the top your little stove will plop.
The manufacturer had good reasons, why he made a uncommon pentagon keyhole. He wants to make it impossible to "service" the safety valve by...
There are several possibilities, why the safety-valve did, what it was made for: preventing an explosion. Broken spring > (rather unlikely) Valve...
There are some strange advises in the net, what to do when travelling by air, with a stove. Some days ago, I have read to fill the fount with...
The principal seals in the CG pierceable appliances are the most durable item of the CG products, still usable after 50 years. The blue...
Essence "C" is what you need for a Optimus 8R. Usually not available in the supermarkets. You may find it with some luck in Weldom Markets, or in...
@Sternenlicht You have made a good NRV tool. To modify it to a non-slip tool, with a ¼" drive, would be quite easy. All you need is a file and a...
@Pinnah You can test all gaskets easily with a wooden toothpick: press the pick against the gasket an see if it's soft. If the gasket is harder...
@igh371 Hello Ian The "Manufacture française d'armes et cycles de Saint-Étienne" existed from 1885 to 1988. The name changed 1911 to...
Yes it's "Nubar" written in Arabic letters. Nubar seems to be a name with Armenian roots. So from somewhere in the former Great Ottomanian Empire....
This advise is under the condition, this is a stove for kerosene as fuel. Is there a pump? Air bleed? Take off the wind shield from the burners...
@presscall I understand quite well, how proud you are, to have extracted such a deformed NRV. But I think your advice how to bring the most...
A fine stove with a historic background! Well done and well presented, John! Hard to image a good reason, why somebody should make a cast flame...
@hikerduane There are special washers available, designed to be set into the window hinges to rise the position of the wing. They come in several...
@flangset Yes, the gas at higher temperature has less molecules per volume. If I mount the very same (not a similar) burner on a smaller fount, I...
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