You are correct both burners are marked Optimus Primus which I had not noticed before therefore date to between 1963 and 1969 when Optimus took...
Replace your roarer burner with a silent burner, an easy swop on many classic brass stoves.
Looking on e-bay all the results for hypodermic needles were from the USA but also blunt tip needles for oil, glue, and paint dispensing which...
Hi, I don’t know why no one else has answered and I’m not an expert but looking at your pictures one burner is marked Optimus and that is the...
No but base camp does.
Excellent work on the legs!
As far as I am concerned JetA and JetA1 are specifications not fuels. The specification for sulphur is the same for both. The actual amount of...
Yes I would be more careful with a petrol stove(in fact I only own one and I’ve never lit it) but kerosene is not so volatile and weeping gaskets...
Hi and welcome I don’t claim to be an expert or what I suggest is correct but what I do is I like to see if the stove will run before I get into...
It’s all looking really good, beautiful stove and kettle and an excellent flame. Well done!
@Julian Cushworth Hi you guessed your stove might be 39/40 I take it you mean 1939/1940?
We have paraffin wax and liquid paraffin which is a laxative and paraffin which is kerosene.
As I said above Paraffin! Edit I spelt it kerosine rather than kerosene.
Kerosine (US) is not petroleum in the U.K. it’s Paraffin . Petroleum in the U.K. is abbreviated to petrol ie gasoline or gas (US).
Well I am still confused (it doesn’t take much) by which burner(s) a no 25 takes . In kerophile’s first post the illustration shows #4140 for No...
@Steve Sanderson Hi further to @kerophile post the outer cap you have seems to be a 4205 for a no 5 burner as it has 4 rows of holes whereas...
Hi I checked a spare unused filler cap washer(nitrile rubber) it’s about 2 mm. Washer should ideally be Viton as supplied by At your service! -...
I agree I far prefer photos and videos waste my precious data but I love presscall’s burn videos where you hear a burner roaring so that is their...
@Steve Sanderson Correction the heater is a radiator heater from before antifreeze Governor 'Sump Heater' Scroll down for a picture of your heater
@Steve Sanderson Hi and welcome to CCS I have see the kettle before but in copper and it should have a screw on cap possibly with a chain.There...
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