With the silver tin, I would date it earlier than the ‘70s. Check the stove reference gallery.
I have one like that, with no date. I believe it’s from the early’60s, during Primus Trading Co. transition.
Plus 1 on the ATF and acetone. Helped break loose the exhaust header nuts on my 43 year old BMW bike.
Thrift stores often have zippered lunch bags that will work.
1980s perhaps.
I like to remove the cleaning needles. That way I can go from off to max without fussing with the protruding needle. I do carry a Svea cleaning...
I’ve found that over pumping an insufficiently preheated kero stove will produce flareups similar to wind flares.
I believe there are two 8R burners, with and without a “neck.”
Isn’t this the same model of bike that inspired Hunter Thompson’s story “Song of the Sausage Creature?”
I’ve got two of the more popular style of kero stoves, Primus 96 and Optimus 00, and the “Famous Five” style white gas stoves: Svea 123R, Primus...
So ingenious it’s scary!
CO is odorless and colorless. Impossible to assess without a detector.
Remember, the pump is not really necessary! Just prime with Coleman fuel (actually alcohol makes a cleaner primer) and you’re good!
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I was extremely pleased using the acetone/ATF mix to loosen the exhaust pipes on my 40 year old BMW R80. Shake it up and apply with an eye dropper...
Using the second clip will hasten loosening its spot weld, and cause the whole thing to drop off. (Which it will do eventually anyway.) On my 8R I...
Some countries refer to automotive gasoline as Benzin or Benzina, named after Karl Benz, inventor of the automobile. Not to be confused with the...
The original paint looks pretty decent to me. Basil
Never used petrol? It’s a petrol stove! Unless you’re referring to automotive petrol. We have recently had folks on the forum attempting to use...
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