Hahaha, Hmmmmmm, Well, it was fun to try. Experimentation is the spice of life. I hope a 199 will appear before me at some random garage sale,...
Bloody poos. I hunted down some thick (1-2 ml) high tension copper wire off some old over head power line (this is not easy as all that is...
Hahahaha, great, yep the gummies are for everything. I might be up to 9 by the end of sunday night depending on good old trade me and the stiff...
OK all you old stoveoholics... remember when you were just getting started, having a couple of stoves all used for specific purposes... Then......
Dammmmmm. Im going to do a timed burn with white spirits, then electric wire it and re time it. this sounds like a well worthy experiment. great...
sorry for spamming this forum. I just got a wee beauty of an Optimus 1 from trade me nZ. Cooked my dinner on it and now feel like I belong on this...
cheers guys. Bloody brilliant!. That link was very informative. Im tempted to track down some wire and hace a crack at that. Kero does after all...
Um showing my ignorance, um can you use kerosene in optimus 8/8r/hiker style stoves????? would it burn or wuld it totally ruin my stove??? Im...
yeah, that canadian one is on my watch list. is it worth looking at?????? Its in my city, so I can get it with no postage. I wsnt sure how...
Bajabum is right alas. however, there is a set of coleman generators there now. not sure if its what you are after, but have a look. you dont need...
Woot. Just bought an Optimus #1 with originalbox, instructions and nozzle cleaners off trade me for $42 NZ. It was sooooooo exciting counting down...
I used to think that MSRs were the be all and end all of cookers, till discovering 123Rs in the wop wops of Japan. I bought, used and fell in love...
sweet it does look the same. I was wondering if it was the optimus 99, from catalogues, but yeah, looks like we have a winner. Stoked! Nice to...
I picked this up for $10 in a wee second hand shop in NZ. the guy had 2 stoves, 1 was a trangia style but set into picnic set tin (1950s-1970s I...
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